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Wearing glasses as part of everyday life is currently the sole domain of those that require corrective treatment for low vision. This could change significantly in the next couple of years after tech giant Meta recently announced the roadmap ahead of its plans to release its first fully-fledged in 2027. Augmented Reality (AR) glasses Tech fans have begun to excitedly speculate about their appearance; here’s what we know so far. What Is Augmented Reality (AR)? , known as AR, is a cutting-edge technology that blends digital components, often with 3D visuals, with an individual’s real-world surroundings. Augmented reality Although still in its infancy, AR is being investigated for use in several real-world industries to help people make more informed decisions in business and create fully-immersive alternative worlds in the gaming and entertainment spheres. Elements delivered by AR include visuals, sounds, and other sensory information through the use of an interactive device such as a smartphone. However, many big tech companies, such as Meta, believe that glasses will be the future of since they allow AR components to be easily overlaid on an individual’s surroundings. AR Currently, several AR-enabled mobile games are available; the most popular of which is Pokemon Go. (Image Source: ) Forbes Meta and Project Nazare is the name for Meta's AR glasses' design, development, and creation. Project Nazare Recent developments, such as the recently-announced partnership with Ray-Ban, have added credence to an all-too-readily dismissed project for some. Indeed, Project Nazare takes Facebook’s concept of building a system that projects holograms into real-world surroundings via glasses and turns it into reality. The glasses will interact with cloud-based servers to transform real-life people into moving 3-D avatars and allow users to interact with the metaverse in real time. Although under development under the guise of Project Nazare, Meta has yet to decide on the final name for the product due for market release in 2027. What Could the Glasses Look Like? While there is plenty of scope for the design of the glasses to change as development progresses, Meta Supremo Mark Zuckerburg has provided some detail on what their glasses might look like. In short, the glasses frames are expected to be approximately 5mm thick, which compares favorably with most prescription glasses with frames between 2 and 6mm thick. Considering that of those needing vision correction wear glasses, this means that wearers will be able to enjoy a familiar feeling when wearing the eyewear without the fear of looking ridiculous. 64 percent This is where Ray-Ban’s expertise comes to the fore. Metaverse companies, including , have struggled to make wearable devices comfortable and stylistically appealing. Meta Early iterations of the Ray-Ban Stories, the frames earmarked for the collaboration with Meta, look exactly like regular, stylish sunglasses yet will have the capability to take the wearer into a completely new digital realm. In addition to having a familiar feel and look, the glasses will have sensors, speakers, radios, and cameras within the frames to provide the user with an unbelievably fully-immersive experience. (Image Source: ) Facebook What Can Users Expect From AR Glasses? The glasses are intended to be fully immersive instead of viewing a virtual world through a lens or goldfish bowl. Project Nazare’s advanced hologram display will allow digital and real-world realities to merge into a brand-new singular world. Project Nazare will provide the digital world with a giant leap forward in wearable smart devices thanks to its powerful and robust sensors and processors, enabling two-way communication with other device wearers. While wearers will have to balance their technical aspirations with the capability of technology, the Ray-Ban Stories already contain some impressive levels of hardware in a tiny space. With two 5MP cameras supporting still images and video, more than 500 pictures and 30 x 30-second videos can be stored. A three-way microphone set-up on these glasses detects voices, and when the glasses hear the words, “Hey Facebook,” they’ll await a command. For those nervous about using voice activation in public, the glasses will have physical controls to capture photos or videos. A front-facing light turns on when the cameras assist with image quality. Meta’s Next Steps for Project Nazare What’s next on the Project Nazare roadmap? With the partnership with Ray-Ban signed and sealed, developers are racing to deliver the first-gen glasses for testing as early as 2024, with further iterations due as more technological developments are rolled out before the proposed public market launch in 2027. Mark Zuckerburg has earmarked the launch of Meta’s AR glasses as the company’s iPhone moment, which will spring the company out of the shadow of Google and Apple. Questions have been raised about the AR glasses’ price compared to its $299 Quest VR headset. To help launch Project Nazare onto the public market, Meta is expected to subsidize the price to encourage adoption among the innovative device-buying public. The extent to which Zuckerburg is willing to do this will likely determine whether thousands or millions of consumers take up this exciting new technology.

Dreaming Big: What Could Meta’s AR Glasses Look Like Upon Their 2027 Launch?

Or “The Rescuer's Final Reward” I have seen this little tale/anecdote under both of these titles at various times. It is story more or less designed to pique the heartstrings. So my object here is first to present the story, I mean, why not? It is in its nature. Uplifting in its way. kawaii But the second reason, the “right here right now” reason is because I wanted to see what the would render as images to accompany the tale. Deep Dream Generative AI I have seen this story / anecdote attributed to a . (I did not write it, but I wanted to use it to see how Deep Dream would do with the tale) Disclaimer: Benny Archuleta Whoever wrote it surely scribed a tear jerker. Unlike most days at the Rainbow Bridge, this day dawned cold and grey. All the recent arrivals at the Bridge did not know what to think, as they had never seen such a day. But the animals who had been waiting longer for their beloved people to accompany them across the Bridge knew what was happening, and they began to gather at the pathway leading to the Bridge. Soon an elderly dog came into view, head hung low and tail dragging. He approached slowly, and though he showed no sign of injury or illness, he was in great emotional pain. Unlike the animals gathered along the pathway, he had not been restored to youth and vigour upon arriving at the Bridge. He felt out of place, and wanted only to cross over and find happiness. But as he approached the Bridge, his way was barred by an angel, who apologized and explained that the tired and broken-spirited old dog could not cross over. Only those animals accompanied by their people were allowed to cross the Bridge. Having nobody, and with nowhere else to turn, the dog trudged into the field in front of the Bridge. There he found others like himself, elderly or infirm, sad and discouraged. Unlike the other animals waiting to cross the Bridge, these animals were not running or playing. They simply were lying in the grass, staring forlornly at the pathway across the Rainbow Bridge. The old dog took his place among them, watching the pathway and waiting. yet not knowing for what he was waiting. One of the newer dogs at the Bridge asked a cat who had been there longer to explain what was happening. The cat replied, "Those poor animals were abandoned, turned away, or left at rescue places, but never found a home on earth. They all passed on with only the love of a rescuer to comfort them. Because they had no people to love them, they have nobody to escort them across the Rainbow Bridge." The dog asked the cat, "So what will happen to those animals?" Before the cat could answer, the clouds began to part and the cold turned to bright sunshine. The cat replied, "Watch, and you will see." In the distance was a single person, and as he approached the Bridge the old, infirm and sad animals in the field were bathed in a golden light. They were at once made young and healthy, and stood to see what their fate would be. The animals who had previously gathered at the pathway bowed their heads as the person approached. At each bowed head, the person offered a scratch or hug. One by one, the now youthful and healthy animals from the field fell into line behind the person. Together, they walked across the Rainbow bridge to a future of happiness and unquestioned love. The dog asked the cat, "What just happened?" The cat responded, "That was a rescuer. The animals gathered along the pathway bowing in respect were those who had found their forever homes because of rescuers. They will cross over when their people arrive at the Bridge. The arrival here of a rescuer is a great and solemn event, and as a tribute they are permitted to perform one final act of rescue. They are allowed to escort all those poor animals they couldn't place on earth across the Rainbow Bridge." The dog thought for a moment, then said, "I like rescuers." The cat smiled and replied, "So does heaven, my friend. So does heaven." When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. On the other side of the Rainbow Bridge all the animals do their happy dance. (This image was not done by the AI. I appropriated it from Hackernoon.) I find the AI rendered interpretations interesting. Hope you enjoy them too. As always Comments, Criticism, and Suggestions are welcome. Thanks for reading. ☺

Deep Dreaming of 'The Rainbow Bridge' by Benny Archuleta

In this slogging AMA, we chat with Pablo Román of . Dreaming Spanish is a video platform for Spanish learners where all the content is entirely in Spanish yet there are comprehensible videos for students of every level. Their method is based on Language Immersion and Dr. Stephen Krashen's hypothesis around Comprehensible Input. Dreaming Spanish This Slogging thread by Abeer, Pablo Román, Pamela Liang, Drone Warfare, Patrick Loritz, Mónica Freitas, Limarc Ambalina, Sara Pinto, Edward Pineda, Hung Le Ngoc, Giovanni Martorella, Chris Teague, Jack Boreham and Felix Changoo occurred in slogging's official #amas channel, and has been edited for readability. Abeer Feb 23, 2022, 1:30 AM Hey @channel, please join me in welcoming our next AMA guest, Pablo Román. Pablo is the creator of Dreaming Spanish and the co-founder of Dreaming Languages. They are set on revolutionizing the way people learn languages by allowing them to learn them the same way they learned their first language. Please feel free to ask Pablo anything about: Language Learning Things you can only do when you speak a certain language Turning a YouTube channel into a content production company Their plans for applying Natural Language Processing to help people learn languages Uses of VR for education What it would take for automatic translation to really work well 🔥 1 Abeer Feb 23, 2022, 1:31 AM Hey Pablo Román! Awesome to have you here! Could you start by telling us a bit about yourself, your background, and why you started Dreaming Spanish? Pablo Román Feb 23, 2022, 1:35 AM My background is in computer science. I started in academia, but when I was doing my PhD I wasn't really feeling motivated, and after watching too many TED talks, I realized that I didn't have a dream. After a month or so of thinking about it, I realized that I had managed to learn Japanese to a very good level without ever taking classes or opening a textbook, so I decided to help people realize that there are better, more fun ways to learn languages. Pablo Román Feb 23, 2022, 1:38 AM Then I found a school that really matched my learning experience, so I went there for 1 year to try it out. This was the AUA school in Bangkok, where I learned Thai. Since the method had worked so well, I decided to try to get more people to benefit from it. Initially I tried to put together a course based on media that was available already on YouTube and other public platforms, but after a couple of failed attempts at doing this, I realized that the content just wasn't there, so I decided to start making my own content. Pamela Liang Feb 23, 2022, 1:46 AM So it sounds like you learned Japanese pretty easily without any sort of formal method. How did you do that and what do you mean by finding a school that matched your learning experience? Pablo Román Feb 23, 2022, 1:50 AM I learned Japanese following the AJATT (All Japanese All The Time) method, which advocates for getting lots of input of media in the language. It also uses Anki extensively, but that part didn't work for me, so I did only the input part. After that, I learned about Comprehensible Input, and how it's better for the input that we receive to be understandable. The school did exactly that. It taught us Thai as if we were babies. The teachers would only speak Thai to each other and to us, and they would make the conversation more understandable by using pictures, gestures and drawing on the whiteboard. Drone Warfare Feb 23, 2022, 1:55 AM Hi Pablo! I've been a subscriber to your youtube channel for 2 years. I had no clue you had a Computer Science background. Before language learning, did you have something else in mind for your future? Pablo Román Feb 23, 2022, 2:00 AM Before that I didn't have any clear plans for my future other than continuing to do research on Computer Science. There wasn't anything in particular that I wanted to research, but I knew that I wanted to do something that nobody else was doing. I've always wanted to do something new that wouldn't be happening if I wasn't there doing it. 🔥 1 Abeer Feb 23, 2022, 1:57 AM Pablo Román That’s fascinating. So that’s how Dreaming Spanish came to be. How does Dreaming Spanish relate to Dreaming Languages? Pablo Román Feb 23, 2022, 2:02 AM When I started the channel Dreaming Spanish I was already thinking of doing more languages in the future. In fact, if I had had money to invest, I would probably have hired people to create a channel for Mandarin instead, since I've always wanted to learn it. Instead, since I didn't have money and had to do everything myself, I started making videos in Spanish, which is one of my native languages. Naturally, when I met my business partner at around the end of 2020, we decided to name the company Dreaming Languages. Abeer Feb 23, 2022, 2:15 AM Pablo Román It’s interesting to think that if circumstances were different, there would be a Dreaming Mandarin right now instead. If you don’t mind me asking (feel free to ignore if it’s confidential at the moment), is Mandarin the first language that Dreaming Languages is going to tackle? Pablo Román Feb 23, 2022, 2:16 AM We haven't decided on that yet. I'd love to do it, but there are also strong reasons to do German, French, Japanese and English. Patrick Loritz Feb 23, 2022, 2:23 AM Hi Pablo Román. Do you think its a bad idea to learn 2 languages at the same time? Im learning Spanish and German at the same time. I know a handful of German phrases and words that I've heard from my grandmother, other than that it's fairly new to me. Pablo Román Feb 23, 2022, 2:31 AM It depends on how much time you have available, especially if it's the first time you are learning a foreign language to fluency. For the first language you learn as an adult it's common to feel insecure about your ability to learn a language well, since you've never done it before. Therefore it helps to get as much motivation as you can. One way you get motivation is by seeing the progress you are making, and that's harder to see if you are learning two languages at once, since you are spending less time with each language. For German or Spanish, I would recommend not learning them at the same time unless you can dedicate 1h a day to each on average. Even now, I never start learning two languages at once. I only have one main language that I'm learning in which I'm at the beginner or intermediate level. Then, when I have some extra time in which I'm not sitting down but I can be listening to something, I'll be listening to podcasts or audiobooks to not forget and even improve the languages in which I'm at a higher level. Patrick Loritz Feb 23, 2022, 2:38 AM Pablo Román Thanks for the advice. That's probably the best way to go. I'll stick to learning German for now especially since I have family members I can talk to in German. Once I get good at it, I'll try learning Spanish again Mónica Freitas Feb 23, 2022, 9:33 AM Hi  Pablo Román, great to have you here! How can VR help in language learning? Pablo Román Feb 23, 2022, 9:58 AM Every attempt to teach a language in VR that I've seen until now has been a video game that could easily have been made for a flat screen and would be essentially the same. I think the medium allows for things that weren't possible until now. I think there's potential in two different ideas. The first one, that I hope to be able to try making myself in the future, is in recording a 3D 180 video of one or two teachers showing different objects and talking to you. Something like the videos that we have in the channel right now, but you would feel you're actually there with the teachers, and can get a much better view on what's going on around you. The second one is live interaction with avatars. Right now, with VR you can be in a virtual room with other people and have a conversation with them. It allows some things that are not easy to do with a regular video call, like placing items, documents, and screens in a shared space and interact with them together. In the near future, better face and eye tracking will make avatars more life-like and allow us to better communicate feelings. I think that if this is implemented well, it could be a great way to do language exchange, and to teach private lessons or even small groups of students. 🔥 1 Limarc Ambalina Feb 23, 2022, 9:58 AM Hey Pablo Román I’m super big into VR right now and agree there are huge applications for VR in education. What work have you done in VR? Pablo Román Feb 23, 2022, 10:01 AM Until now the only work I've done is to record playthroughs of VR video games. The kind of hand interactions that you can do in VR allows for a more visual experience than is common in most video games. It's very easy to grab a game like Job Simulator or I Expect You To Die and make a video with plenty of different interactions with different objects, which lends itself very well for making comprehensible videos for language learning. 🔥 2 Sara Pinto Feb 23, 2022, 12:11 PM Hey Pablo Román, glad to have you with us. Since I'm a student in a degree where learning languages is crucial, I wonder: what do you think are the best methods to learn a language? Pablo Román Feb 24, 2022, 3:40 AM Sara Pinto Comprehensible input! We have a complete explanation of the method we advocate for here: This not only includes our own content, but also a way of doing language exchange called crosstalk in which you focus on receiving input in the language you are learning. https://dreamingspanish.com/method Edward Pineda Feb 24, 2022, 3:28 AM Hi Pablo. Can you tell us more about the Dreaming Spanish channel and how you grew it into a content production company? Pablo Román Feb 24, 2022, 3:50 AM Edward Pineda Right now we are in the process of growing into an actual company. The path to get here has been longer that I would have liked, since I started the project 5 years ago, but now it's looking really good. Until now the project has been bootstrapped. I would put part of the money that I received from YouTube ads and Patreon into paying other teachers to make more content for our channel and platform. After around 2 years of working on it I managed to start making enough money to be able to work on the project full time. Around 1 year ago I met a business partner and investor, and that is going to let us start hiring teachers full time to work on a complete solution for people who want to learn Spanish from zero to a high level. I met my partner because he was a learner who was watching our videos and believed in our vision. Really, I've got a lot of help from people who contacted me because they were learning Spanish with our videos. I think the fact that we focused on spreading our learning approach and our mission, including giving advise about ways to learn that don't involve giving us money, has made a lot of people advocates of our approach. Even to the point that a few people donated quite a lot of money to the project. ❤ 1 Hung Le Ngoc Feb 24, 2022, 4:03 AM Thank you for doing this AMA Pablo Román. What are some benefits of learning a foreign language? What are things you can only do when you speak a certain language? Pablo Román Feb 24, 2022, 4:27 AM That's a very general question, and I think the answer is going to be different for each person. Besides the obvious benefits if you live or like to travel often in the country, some people have an interest in the literature, movies, or certain aspects of the culture of the language that can be enjoyed more if you actually know the language well. Some of the things that I particularly enjoyed doing that I wouldn't have been able to do otherwise were meeting geishas and being able to hear about their lives and their training, joining a class to learn how to play the Japanese taiko (drum), a local university juggling club, and in particular hitchhiking around the country for 4 months, which would have been a quite different experience if I couldn't speak to the people I met along the way. As for things that you can do if you're not in the country, I do like to read novels, watch movies and TV, and to meet people from the country who live in the country where I'm at. You will often be surprised at the difference in values and the different point of view that other countries have on certain historical events. ❤ 1 👍 1 Pablo Román Feb 24, 2022, 4:31 AM If you don't know the language, everything that comes from that country will have been filtered by the interpretation of somebody else. Either by a translator or by a person directly writing about it in your language. Giovanni Martorella Feb 24, 2022, 5:04 AM Hey Pablo Román. What are your plans for applying Natural Language Processing to help people learn languages? Pablo Román Feb 24, 2022, 6:12 AM Right now we are applying it to estimate how difficult a video may be to learners based on the difficulty of the vocabulary that appears in the video. We do that by first doing speech recognition and then looking at how common those words are in a frequency list. In the future, we may try to extend this to identify which words a student hasn't been exposed to enough, and suggest content that will get them exposed to that vocabulary. That could also be used by the users directly to search for content that uses certain vocabulary that they want to get more comfortable with. If we find a way to figure out the vocabulary that each student knows and doesn't know yet, then we'll also be able to use that to show content that contains a good balance of known VS new words to maximize the learning speed. Recently, I've also seen a number of apps that have you speak into them and supposedly they give you feedback on your pronunciation. Based on the literature, this kind of feedback doesn't seem to be helpful at all even when done by a human teacher, so I think this application of speech recognition is misguided. In the future, I can also imagine chatbots being a useful tool when students have reached a good enough level to hold a conversation, but still need a bit more confidence to engage in conversation with native speakers knowing that their level is good enough to have a positive experience. ❤ 2 Chris Teague Feb 24, 2022, 2:16 PM Welcome Pablo! I've been using Dreaming in Spanish for a few months now, and I really enjoy the videos. It's very impressive how much content you and your collaborators are able to create and publish every week. How did you find your collaborators and get them involved in making educational videos? I'm also curious if you have any other side jobs besides working on Dreaming Spanish, or is your work life 100% committed to the site? Pablo Román Feb 25, 2022, 2:53 AM Chris Teague I'm glad you're liking it! We found most of our collaborators on Facebook groups for actors and Spanish teachers. I also contacted a few ones that already had their YouTube channel, and we ended up hiring with Alma. We'll now also be trying out some people that my business partner has had as Spanish tutors. I'm working on this full time and I have been for the last 3 years. I wanted to as soon as I started, and it took me around 1 and 1/2 years to get there, during which time I was working part time as a web developer. Jack Boreham Feb 24, 2022, 5:05 PM Pablo Román, wow, this convo is fascinating. Thanks for joining us! How did you manage to amass your viewership on YouTube? It's a tough market to conquer, highly competitive! Pablo Román Feb 25, 2022, 3:01 AM Jack Boreham I think in our case we offer something that didn't exist before, so it has been relatively easy to capture an audience that was already waiting for this kind of thing, or at least who had lost hope in traditional language learning methods and were ready for something different. I think this is why so many of our students are advocates and tell about us to many people. At the same time, this has limited us if you compare us to more traditional creators that cater to what most of the people are already looking for. I've seen channels growing at a crazy pace that were making videos catering to what most people search for, like "how to say hello in Spanish", "the numbers in Spanish". Those kinds of videos get a crazy number of views and subscriptions, but I also think that those channels probably don't get that many views per user, and that we are growing a devoted audience that with time will keep growing at a steady pace as people realize that there's a better way of learning languages. Felix Changoo Feb 24, 2022, 9:14 PM Hey Pablo. What would it take for automatic translation to work well? Pablo Román Feb 25, 2022, 3:44 AM Automatic translation is REALLY tough. Right now it's perfectly serviceable for understanding full paragraphs, and as a help to speed up the work of translators. But no matter what, you still need a person (ideally a person that already knows the original language) to process the output and to turn it into something that makes sense. This is without even talking about translating between two languages other than English, or even from Asian languages to English. For creating proper good-quality translations, and for translating short sentences and the kind of context-dependent language used in daily life, I'm afraid computers are not going to be as good as a human for as long as they are not as intelligent as a human. There is just so much ambiguity in language that you can't translate things well unless you really understand the reality that the language is trying to express. For example, for a language that doesn't need to explicitly mention the subject of the sentence, the translator needs to know who is likely to have done the action based on previous knowledge, but also on knowledge about the world and the things that are possible. In some extreme cases, like when translating very short sentences, a "good" translation can't even be expected from a human translator if the translator doesn't have more information about the situation in which the sentence was said, the relationship between the speakers, etc. Abeer Feb 25, 2022, 3:54 AM Pablo Román Thank you so much for the fantastic answers! It was awesome having you here. Before we wrap up this AMA, do you have any final thoughts, closing remarks, or anything you’d like to promote to our readers? Pablo Román Feb 25, 2022, 4:11 AM I'm just hoping that we can get more and more people excited about learning languages once they realize how easy it can be. If you are learning a language other than Spanish, I still encourage you to go to YouTube and search for "comprehensible input <your language>", since recently many channels are popping up that use a similar approach to ours. In our case, we are planning an expansion of our project with more teachers, more content, and to eventually offer a full course that will get you from zero to being able to understand TV and movies and be able to have conversations in the language. And also we can't wait to start tackling our next language! Thanks to everybody who joined the AMA these last 2 days, and to receive updates about our project, you can sign up on our website and mark "Notify me about big website updates and new products". We only send out emails for big important changes. http://dreamingspanish.com 💚 1

Revolutionizing Language Learning with Dreaming Spanish Creator, Pablo Román

1/6/18 — $815,864,140,317 Market Cap At last! A sea of green. Finally… it’s all green, after hours staring at the screen. It’s been days, restless nights, my thoughts always ablaze. We made it! 100x gains! We can’t be tamed! I’m finally able to turn off the and put down the phone. It’s 4am I’m all alone. computer At long last, I close my eyes and lay in bed. No more dreams of ICOs or about the deathly red. worrying BUT.. wait a minute. What if I’m missing something? I jump out of bed in a cold sweat and cringe. Straddling the line between insanity and the outer fringe. They have a great team, they have great tech. But, who even uses this? Do I? Do you? Do we even care to check? What if I’m missing something. Which coin is next? I need more ammo. 100x gains was so 3 hours ago.

Dreaming of a Sea of Green

A story of kindness and little bit hustle. When we changed our name from Hometown into . The handle @Markhor was not available on any social media channel (especially on Twitter). So without wasting our time we signed-up with @themarkhor. startup Markhor @markhor — used by Mark Horowitz Time went pass by, and we noticed that quite often our customers were tagging us on twitter as @Markhor instead of @themarkhor. We looked up and found that Markhor was used by a gent named . Yes, he was using first 7 letters of his full name, which just happened to be name of our brand. If we were to ask him to give up the handle, there was nothing which we could offer in return, so I started looking, perhaps a better/similar twitter handle for him. Also I did not had immediate connection with him, and at that time he was Editor at Medium. Mark Horowitz Help came from an unexpected place. We got busy approaching Y Combinator Demo Day (we were part of summer 2015 class). Then came the demo day, which YC organizes twice a year at Computer History Museum in Mountain View. My co-founder and I were wearing our Markhor teeshirts and meeting potential investors. It is when approached us, he said . Steven, without any doubt is one of the most senior technology journalists and authors. I think I freaked out a little bit. He was very kind and further mentioned that his boss at a previous job at Wired, currently has twitter handle @Markhor which Steven can potentially help us get from him. We took the offer and asked Steven to check with Mark and make an intro. Sidra Steven Levy hello After few days I followed up with Steven and he made the intro next day. We talked with Mark and offered that we would get him a good twitter handle as an alternate and a pair of beautiful Markhor shoes. He happily agreed to support. One thing I noticed was that both Mark and Steven were super kind and generous. I knew that it would work out! @markhorowitz— taken but not used by Marc Horowitz We also found @markhorowitz, an account that was taken but not really used. I knew this would be the ideal handle to offer to Mark Horowitz. To find who owned it, we looked closely and the account was following 2 people only, one of them was a guy named Marc Horowitz, so we thought this might be our guy who can get us @markhorowitz and then we can trade the account with . @markhor I googled Marc Horowitz and to my surprise learned that him and I had a Facebook friend in common, Garry Tan, at time our partner at Y Combinator. Garry happily made an intro over . Marc shared me his email address and then I wrote him the following email. Facebook His assistant got back to me and after few back and forth emails, we scheduled a phone call. I have found that phone calls are much more effective than emails when it comes to persuading people or sharing something you care. It worked and we made a deal. It was more than what we expected to give, but I agreed to make them 13 pairs of Markhor shoes in exchange of the twitter handle @markhorowitz. Basically they wanted their whole team to get a pair of Markhor shoes. It took us another 2–3 months, to get all the sizing rights, there were few returns issues and we had to manage it all from our end. At the end they got all the shoes and we made the switch of the twitter handle. Now we owned handle @markhorowitz. I then got back to Mark Horowitz before asking him to start the switch, we got him his pair of Markhor shoes. Steven Levy also got one for his support. Then the day came and we made the switch. At the end we got the twitter handle we have been dreaming for quite sometime. During the whole process, several times I felt like giving up. It felt too much work without any hope of success, but it was a great lesson learned. I love when one can learn from success. Watch this video when I flew all the way from Pakistan to San Francisco to hand-deliver shoes to our Kickstarter backers. RELATED:

How I traded shoes for the Twitter handle I was dreaming of

The big annual Bitcoin conference, modestly named “The Bitcoin Conference,” will kick off in a few hours in Nashville, Tennessee. The pseudo-Bitcoiners organizing this conference want you to believe this is where the signal for the Bitcoin revolution lies. These pseudo-Bitcoiners are selling this meeting as the place to be if you're a true Bitcoiner. They have every interest in making you believe this when you quickly look at the prices offered to attend this conference: Three packages are available. The first, which already costs $699, or ~1,087,585 sats, only gives you access to the last two days of the Bitcoin Conference. The second gives you access to all three days but already costs $3,999, or ~6,222,107 sats. Oh yes, at that price, you also get access to the Bitcoin 2024 mobile application. What a bargain! But be warned, if you want to attend this not-to-be-missed conference (according to the pseudo-Bitcoiners who are organizing it) in VIP mode, you'll have to pay $21,000, or ~32,674,231 sats. At this price, you'll have access to exclusive sessions such as “Intimate Whale-Only content sessions backstage with top speakers.” Those who have paid $3,999 do not have access to these sessions. The madness doesn't stop there, as an exclusive event featuring Donald Trump Jr. could be on the program for an additional $3,000! I thought Bitcoin was a revolution for the people by the people, but reading these prices, I'm starting to have my doubts about these pseudo-Bitcoiners who only seem to want one thing: your money. The madness continues when we turn our attention to the star of this year's Bitcoin Conference, Donald Trump himself. Formerly a fierce opponent of Bitcoin since he wanted it banned when he was in the White House for his first term, Donald Trump became a Bitcoin supporter at the beginning of 2024. The reason? Donald Trump realized that he had votes to win by making this 180-degree turn, but also, and above all, a lot of money to make! It's no coincidence that Donald Trump has accepted Bitcoin donations for his campaign, as well as donations in Sh*tcoins. With Donald Trump, it's all about getting more money. The fact that Donald Trump accepts Sh*tcoins donations in addition to Bitcoin donations didn't seem to bother anyone among the organizers and participants of the Bitcoin Conference. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Donald Trump is expected to be like a messiah at the Bitcoin Conference. Organizers have only one dream: that Donald Trump will use the occasion to announce that he intends to make Bitcoin America's strategic reserve asset. Some are even dreaming of Donald Trump announcing that he intends to use Bitcoin to back the American dollar. If you think about it, would this be desirable for the Bitcoin revolution? Why do we need to keep the US dollar system when we could use Bitcoin, which is a superior alternative monetary system? An exchange rate was adopted with gold because paper money is more efficient across space and scales compared to the cumbersome physical properties of gold. Bitcoin solves all these problems. So, there's no need to go down this road because countries don't need a fixed exchange rate to trade in Bitcoin. A fixed exchange rate would run counter to what the Bitcoin system is trying to achieve, as it would force us to trust governments and central bankers not to manipulate the exchange rate. In short, it would lead to the centralization of money. But with Bitcoin, we want to take this power away from governments and central bankers because we've understood this for a very long time. It's out of the question for central authorities to attempt to control a decentralized currency like Bitcoin. Bitcoin doesn't need state recognition as a legal tender. Bitcoin is, in essence, legal tender! Legal tender is a fiat tactic used to reinforce the monopoly of governments and central bankers over currencies. I close this parenthesis to take another look at Donald Trump's appearance at the Bitcoin Conference. Determined to squeeze as much money as possible out of the Bitcoiners who have come to admire him, Donald Trump is offering “a VIP reception, a round-table discussion” and “a photo opportunity with President Donald Trump” as part of the conference. Donald Trump's supreme generosity will cost you $844,600! If you don't have nearly a million dollars to waste, you can still take a photo with Donald Trump at this VIP reception for $60,000. Wondering why the $844,600 price tag? After all, Donald Trump could have reached the million mark while he was at it. In reality, the limit is set by campaign finance laws by integrating donations to Donald Trump's campaign and donations to the Republican National Committee. As you can see, I'm not a fan of this Bitcoin Conference, which is an event disconnected from the core values of the Bitcoin revolution. The conference organizers present this as an event promoting freedom and freedom money, but that's a blatant lie. Bitcoin is a revolution of the people, supported by the people. This type of conference is nothing but money thrown out the window by pseudo-Bitcoiners who are still clinging to the fiat system and looking to squeeze always more weak money out of those who let themselves be blinded by their influencing side. The real signal of the Bitcoin revolution will not be in Nashville alongside Donald Trump, who will be looking to make the most money out of such an event when he has nothing to do with Bitcoin. Similarly, doubts about Michael J. Saylor's true understanding of Bitcoin's ultimate purpose are growing stronger as he continues to play into the hands of BlackRock and the other financial giants by repeating over and over again that Bitcoin as a means of payment is a distraction. BlackRock's secret plan for total control continues to unfold bit by bit, and there's no doubt that whichever candidate succeeds Joe Biden in the White House in January 2025, that plan will continue to unfold. The best vote in 2024 and beyond remains Bitcoin, but certainly not by wasting your hard-earned money when you can keep it safe within the world's most secure decentralized network to use it in the future for things that are genuinely useful to you and your family. Before concluding, keep this tweet in mind: Most importantly, the fact that this tweet really launched the regulatory hostilities against Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in America, as a few days after this tweet, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin delivered this speech: To read the full speech, click here: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm731 Feel free to tell me in the comments what you think of this Bitcoin Conference and whether you think wasting your hard-earned money on feeding politicians like Donald Trump and these pseudo-Bitcoiners is something you think is appropriate. The big annual Bitcoin conference, modestly named “The Bitcoin Conference,” will kick off in a few hours in Nashville, Tennessee. The pseudo-Bitcoiners organizing this conference want you to believe this is where the signal for the Bitcoin revolution lies. These pseudo-Bitcoiners are selling this meeting as the place to be if you're a true Bitcoiner. They have every interest in making you believe this when you quickly look at the prices offered to attend this conference: Three packages are available. The first, which already costs $699, or ~1,087,585 sats, only gives you access to the last two days of the Bitcoin Conference. The second gives you access to all three days but already costs $3,999, or ~6,222,107 sats. Oh yes, at that price, you also get access to the Bitcoin 2024 mobile application. What a bargain! But be warned, if you want to attend this not-to-be-missed conference (according to the pseudo-Bitcoiners who are organizing it) in VIP mode, you'll have to pay $21,000, or ~32,674,231 sats. At this price, you'll have access to exclusive sessions such as “Intimate Whale-Only content sessions backstage with top speakers.” Those who have paid $3,999 do not have access to these sessions. The madness doesn't stop there, as an exclusive event featuring Donald Trump Jr. could be on the program for an additional $3,000! I thought Bitcoin was a revolution for the people by the people, but reading these prices, I'm starting to have my doubts about these pseudo-Bitcoiners who only seem to want one thing: your money. The madness continues when we turn our attention to the star of this year's Bitcoin Conference, Donald Trump himself. Formerly a fierce opponent of Bitcoin since he wanted it banned when he was in the White House for his first term, Donald Trump became a Bitcoin supporter at the beginning of 2024. The reason? Donald Trump realized that he had votes to win by making this 180-degree turn, but also, and above all, a lot of money to make! It's no coincidence that Donald Trump has accepted Bitcoin donations for his campaign, as well as donations in Sh*tcoins. With Donald Trump, it's all about getting more money. The fact that Donald Trump accepts Sh*tcoins donations in addition to Bitcoin donations didn't seem to bother anyone among the organizers and participants of the Bitcoin Conference. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Donald Trump is expected to be like a messiah at the Bitcoin Conference. Organizers have only one dream: that Donald Trump will use the occasion to announce that he intends to make Bitcoin America's strategic reserve asset. Some are even dreaming of Donald Trump announcing that he intends to use Bitcoin to back the American dollar. If you think about it, would this be desirable for the Bitcoin revolution? Why do we need to keep the US dollar system when we could use Bitcoin, which is a superior alternative monetary system? Why do we need to keep the US dollar system when we could use Bitcoin, which is a superior alternative monetary system? An exchange rate was adopted with gold because paper money is more efficient across space and scales compared to the cumbersome physical properties of gold. Bitcoin solves all these problems. So, there's no need to go down this road because countries don't need a fixed exchange rate to trade in Bitcoin. A fixed exchange rate would run counter to what the Bitcoin system is trying to achieve, as it would force us to trust governments and central bankers not to manipulate the exchange rate. In short, it would lead to the centralization of money. But with Bitcoin, we want to take this power away from governments and central bankers because we've understood this for a very long time. It's out of the question for central authorities to attempt to control a decentralized currency like Bitcoin. Bitcoin doesn't need state recognition as a legal tender. Bitcoin is, in essence, legal tender! Legal tender is a fiat tactic used to reinforce the monopoly of governments and central bankers over currencies. Bitcoin doesn't need state recognition as a legal tender. Bitcoin is, in essence, legal tender! I close this parenthesis to take another look at Donald Trump's appearance at the Bitcoin Conference. Determined to squeeze as much money as possible out of the Bitcoiners who have come to admire him, Donald Trump is offering “a VIP reception, a round-table discussion” and “a photo opportunity with President Donald Trump” as part of the conference. Donald Trump's supreme generosity will cost you $844,600! If you don't have nearly a million dollars to waste, you can still take a photo with Donald Trump at this VIP reception for $60,000. Wondering why the $844,600 price tag? After all, Donald Trump could have reached the million mark while he was at it. In reality, the limit is set by campaign finance laws by integrating donations to Donald Trump's campaign and donations to the Republican National Committee. Wondering why the $844,600 price tag? As you can see, I'm not a fan of this Bitcoin Conference, which is an event disconnected from the core values of the Bitcoin revolution. The conference organizers present this as an event promoting freedom and freedom money, but that's a blatant lie. Bitcoin is a revolution of the people, supported by the people. This type of conference is nothing but money thrown out the window by pseudo-Bitcoiners who are still clinging to the fiat system and looking to squeeze always more weak money out of those who let themselves be blinded by their influencing side. The real signal of the Bitcoin revolution will not be in Nashville alongside Donald Trump, who will be looking to make the most money out of such an event when he has nothing to do with Bitcoin. Similarly, doubts about Michael J. Saylor's true understanding of Bitcoin's ultimate purpose are growing stronger as he continues to play into the hands of BlackRock and the other financial giants by repeating over and over again that Bitcoin as a means of payment is a distraction. doubts about Michael J. Saylor's true understanding of Bitcoin's ultimate purpose are growing stronger doubts about Michael J. Saylor's true understanding of Bitcoin's ultimate purpose are growing stronger doubts about Michael J. Saylor's true understanding of Bitcoin's ultimate purpose are growing stronger BlackRock's secret plan for total control continues to unfold bit by bit , and there's no doubt that whichever candidate succeeds Joe Biden in the White House in January 2025, that plan will continue to unfold. BlackRock's secret plan for total control continues to unfold bit by bit BlackRock's secret plan for total control continues to unfold bit by bit BlackRock's secret plan for total control continues to unfold bit by bit The best vote in 2024 and beyond remains Bitcoin, but certainly not by wasting your hard-earned money when you can keep it safe within the world's most secure decentralized network to use it in the future for things that are genuinely useful to you and your family. The best vote in 2024 and beyond remains Bitcoin, The best vote in 2024 and beyond remains Bitcoin, The best vote in 2024 and beyond remains Bitcoin, Before concluding, keep this tweet in mind: Most importantly, the fact that this tweet really launched the regulatory hostilities against Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in America, as a few days after this tweet, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin delivered this speech: To read the full speech, click here: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm731 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm731 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm731 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm731 Feel free to tell me in the comments what you think of this Bitcoin Conference and whether you think wasting your hard-earned money on feeding politicians like Donald Trump and these pseudo-Bitcoiners is something you think is appropriate.

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A Brief Introduction to The Boltzmann Brain Theory

বোল্টজম্যান ব্রেন থিওরির একটি সংক্ষিপ্ত ভূমিকা

Eine kurze Einführung in die Boltzmann-Gehirntheorie

Una breve introducción a la teoría del cerebro de Boltzmann

Une brève introduction à la théorie du cerveau de Boltzmann

बोल्ट्ज़मैन मस्तिष्क सिद्धांत का संक्षिप्त परिचय

ボルツマン脳理論の簡単な紹介

볼츠만 뇌 이론에 대한 간략한 소개

Uma breve introdução à teoria do cérebro de Boltzmann

Краткое введение в теорию мозга Больцмана

Boltzmann Beyin Teorisine Kısa Bir Giriş

Giới thiệu tóm tắt về Lý thuyết bộ não của Boltzmann

玻尔兹曼脑理论简介

The F*ck It Effect

F*ck এটি প্রভাব

Der F*ck-It-Effekt

El efecto F*ck It

L'effet F*ck It

एफ*क इट प्रभाव

ファック・イット効果

빌어먹을 효과

O efeito foda-se

Эффект «к черту это»

S*ktir Et Etkisi

Hiệu ứng F*ck It

F*ck It 效应

Dear America, I Am Breaking Up With You

প্রিয় আমেরিকা, আমি তোমার সাথে ব্রেকিং আপ করছি

Liebes Amerika, ich mache Schluss mit Dir

Querida América, estoy rompiendo contigo

Chère Amérique, je romps avec toi

प्रिय अमेरिका, मैं तुमसे नाता तोड़ रहा हूँ

親愛なるアメリカへ、私はあなたと別れます

사랑하는 미국이여, 나는 당신과 헤어지고 있습니다

Querida América, estou terminando com você

Дорогая Америка, я расстаюсь с тобой

Sevgili Amerika, Senden Ayrılıyorum

Nước Mỹ thân mến, tôi sẽ chia tay với bạn

亲爱的美国，我要和你分手

We are living in an age of extreme advances in technology and innovation. Every few months there is a new development, and each one is exciting to learn about. Apple’s new M4 iPad Pro caused waves after its advertisement fell flat with many people as it seemed to suggest it was crushing creativity and the tools artists use. But in truth, the new M4 iPad Pro is a wonder in innovation in terms of its incredibly powerful chip as well as its equally phenomenal size measuring at just 5.1mm thick. According to Apple, “M4 has Apple’s fastest Neural Engine ever, capable of up to 38 trillion operations per second, which is faster than the neural processing unit of any AI PC today. Combined with faster memory bandwidth, along with next-generation machine learning (ML) accelerators in the CPU, and a high-performance GPU, M4 makes the new iPad Pro an outrageously powerful device for artificial intelligence.” At the same time that Apple has been working on its M4 chip, Elon Musk’s company Neuralink produced a chip that can be implanted in the brain and provide its user the ability to control a computer using thoughts alone. At the moment, the company is testing its technology. As announced on its website, “Neuralink is currently seeking people with quadriplegia to participate in a groundbreaking investigational medical device clinical trial for our brain-computer interface.” According to Neuralink, the current version of the device — the N1 Implant — is an intracortical BCI implant designed to record neural activity through 1,024 electrodes distributed across 64 flexible leads, or “threads,” each of which is thinner than a human hair and capable of being placed independently in the brain. Eventually, Neuralink sees a future in which millions of people have the implant installed, providing the ability to control computers with their imagination. Now, let’s take this one step further. Imagine a future in which people have the Neuralink transplant and can control their iPad Pro using their imagination. This technology could provide a breakthrough in creativity and productivity. Whatever limits people have in terms of drawing or creativity can likely be corrected with the combined use of Artificial Intelligence and technology like Neuralink. Writers no longer need to sit for hours in front of a computer. Why not jog or ride a bike while writing at the same time? If all you need to do is think about what you want to write, and since you can take your thoughts with you anywhere, you are limitless in terms of productivity. You can write while mountain climbing, swimming, or just waiting in line at the supermarket. You can probably even use Neuralink while sleeping so technically you can write while you are dreaming. Artists can create all sorts of wonders in their sleep. With this technology, we may finally be able to understand what we dream about and what we think about while slumbering. Or perhaps we’d rather not know. Now, imagine that people can control their entire Smart Home system using Neuralink. Instead of using speech to say “Turn the lights on,” you can just think about it, and on they go. Sitting on the couch and too lazy to get up? No problem. Just think about turning on the fireplace or the coffee machine. Done. Naturally, this technology could become dangerous. "A penny for your thoughts” will take on a whole new level of meaning if people can literally see or hear what you are actually thinking all the time. I imagine most people would prefer others don’t know what they are thinking. Neuralink would need to have limitations in terms of what it can control and what thoughts it can reveal. And if our thoughts are controlling computers, we would need to be limited to specific commands, otherwise, our vacuum might be made to assume it can iron and our coffee machine will think it’s a dishwasher. Such technology could destroy the world as we know it. But that’s what people said about computers and cell phones and pretty much every invention since the wheel. It is more likely that Neuralink, the new iPad Pro, Artificial Intelligence, and the multitudes of other new technologies will only further enhance our already incredible universe. We are living in an age of extreme advances in technology and innovation. Every few months there is a new development, and each one is exciting to learn about. Apple’s new M4 iPad Pro caused waves after its advertisement fell flat with many people as it seemed to suggest it was crushing creativity and the tools artists use. But in truth, the new M4 iPad Pro is a wonder in innovation in terms of its incredibly powerful chip as well as its equally phenomenal size measuring at just 5.1mm thick. According to Apple , “M4 has Apple’s fastest Neural Engine ever, capable of up to 38 trillion operations per second, which is faster than the neural processing unit of any AI PC today. Combined with faster memory bandwidth, along with next-generation machine learning (ML) accelerators in the CPU, and a high-performance GPU, M4 makes the new iPad Pro an outrageously powerful device for artificial intelligence.” According to Apple At the same time that Apple has been working on its M4 chip, Elon Musk’s company Neuralink produced a chip that can be implanted in the brain and provide its user the ability to control a computer using thoughts alone. At the moment, the company is testing its technology. As announced on its website , “Neuralink is currently seeking people with quadriplegia to participate in a groundbreaking investigational medical device clinical trial for our brain-computer interface.” website According to Neuralink, the current version of the device — the N1 Implant — is an intracortical BCI implant designed to record neural activity through 1,024 electrodes distributed across 64 flexible leads, or “threads,” each of which is thinner than a human hair and capable of being placed independently in the brain. Eventually, Neuralink sees a future in which millions of people have the implant installed, providing the ability to control computers with their imagination. Now, let’s take this one step further. Imagine a future in which people have the Neuralink transplant and can control their iPad Pro using their imagination. This technology could provide a breakthrough in creativity and productivity. Whatever limits people have in terms of drawing or creativity can likely be corrected with the combined use of Artificial Intelligence and technology like Neuralink. Writers no longer need to sit for hours in front of a computer. Why not jog or ride a bike while writing at the same time? If all you need to do is think about what you want to write, and since you can take your thoughts with you anywhere, you are limitless in terms of productivity. You can write while mountain climbing, swimming, or just waiting in line at the supermarket. You can probably even use Neuralink while sleeping so technically you can write while you are dreaming. Artists can create all sorts of wonders in their sleep. With this technology, we may finally be able to understand what we dream about and what we think about while slumbering. Or perhaps we’d rather not know. Now, imagine that people can control their entire Smart Home system using Neuralink. Instead of using speech to say “Turn the lights on,” you can just think about it, and on they go. Sitting on the couch and too lazy to get up? No problem. Just think about turning on the fireplace or the coffee machine. Done. Naturally, this technology could become dangerous. "A penny for your thoughts” will take on a whole new level of meaning if people can literally see or hear what you are actually thinking all the time. I imagine most people would prefer others don’t know what they are thinking. Neuralink would need to have limitations in terms of what it can control and what thoughts it can reveal. And if our thoughts are controlling computers, we would need to be limited to specific commands, otherwise, our vacuum might be made to assume it can iron and our coffee machine will think it’s a dishwasher. Such technology could destroy the world as we know it. But that’s what people said about computers and cell phones and pretty much every invention since the wheel. It is more likely that Neuralink, the new iPad Pro, Artificial Intelligence, and the multitudes of other new technologies will only further enhance our already incredible universe.

Neuralink and the Smart Home

The use of gradients is common in modern web design. We see them everywhere from hero backgrounds to illustrations, text colors, borders, hover animations, and many more. Creating them directly in CSS might take a lot of time and would require some knowledge of how different types of gradients are constructed. To help you out in this article, I compiled some of my favorite gradient makers. I will provide you with the direct link to the tools, give you a concise description, and include a screenshot of the tool, so you can get an initial impression on the fly. Web Gradients A free collection of 180 linear gradients that you can use as content backdrops in any part of your website. Easy copy CSS3 cross-browser code, and use it in a moment! Grabient Add up to 6 colors, and change the angle of the gradient with the modern-looking UI. UI-Gradients Browse lots of predefined gradients from the gallery, and edit the gradient direction in the generator. Opensource, add your own gradients via code. HyperColor A curated collection of beautiful Tailwind CSS gradients using the full range of Tailwind CSS colors. Easily copy and paste the class names, CSS, or even save the gradients as an image. Gradient King Browse lots of gradients based on the color theme. Also includes an option to generate the gradient based on uploaded image colors. Option to sign in, and save your favorites. CoolHue Try the Coolhue Gradient Palette Plugin. With it, you can directly access gradient color palettes from right inside your favorite prototyping tools like Sketch App and Figma. GradientHunt Gradient Hunt is a free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy hand-made color gradients. CSS Gradient Gradient generator with modern-looking UI and lots of customization options. Gradient Png Supports adding up to 5 colors, switching their positions, changing their weight, and other customization options. Random mode to come up with awesome presets. Mycolor.space Generate a CSS Color Gradient with 2 or 3 colors. Change directions and copy the CSS code when ready. Color Gradient CSS color generator for cool backgrounds and UI elements. Gradient Generator Advanced CSS gradient generator by Josh W.Comeau. Lots of customization options such as color mode, angle, and easing curve. CSS Gradient Generator Create linear and radial gradients. Experiment with random color modes and edit gradient directions. Switch between HEX and RGBA modes. Did You Like the Resources? Here's More 👇 Over the previous months, I've compiled The Ultimate Bundle with every resource you need from starting to learn to code to landing your dream tech role! Includes 900+ resources in total, further divided into 99 categories for easier navigation and access! Save 1000s of hours, and focus on what matters! I'm currently offering 50% OFF just for my readers! Don't miss out on this! ⭐ Get it here: Ultimate Resources Bundle to Land a Job in Tech! ⭐ Writing has always been my passion, and it gives me pleasure to help and inspire people. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out! Make sure to receive the best resources, tools, productivity tips, and career growth tips I discover by subscribing to my newsletter! Also, connect with me on Twitter, LinkedIn, and GitHub! Also published here. The use of gradients is common in modern web design. We see them everywhere from hero backgrounds to illustrations, text colors, borders, hover animations, and many more. Creating them directly in CSS might take a lot of time and would require some knowledge of how different types of gradients are constructed. To help you out in this article, I compiled some of my favorite gradient makers. I will provide you with the direct link to the tools, give you a concise description, and include a screenshot of the tool, so you can get an initial impression on the fly. Web Gradients Web Gradients A free collection of 180 linear gradients that you can use as content backdrops in any part of your website. Easy copy CSS3 cross-browser code, and use it in a moment! Grabient Grabient Add up to 6 colors, and change the angle of the gradient with the modern-looking UI. UI-Gradients UI-Gradients Browse lots of predefined gradients from the gallery, and edit the gradient direction in the generator. Opensource, add your own gradients via code. HyperColor HyperColor A curated collection of beautiful Tailwind CSS gradients using the full range of Tailwind CSS colors. Easily copy and paste the class names, CSS, or even save the gradients as an image. Gradient King Gradient King Browse lots of gradients based on the color theme. Also includes an option to generate the gradient based on uploaded image colors. Option to sign in, and save your favorites. CoolHue CoolHue Try the Coolhue Gradient Palette Plugin. With it, you can directly access gradient color palettes from right inside your favorite prototyping tools like Sketch App and Figma. GradientHunt GradientHunt Gradient Hunt is a free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy hand-made color gradients. CSS Gradient CSS Gradient Gradient generator with modern-looking UI and lots of customization options. Gradient Png Gradient Png Supports adding up to 5 colors, switching their positions, changing their weight, and other customization options. Random mode to come up with awesome presets. Mycolor.space Mycolor.space Generate a CSS Color Gradient with 2 or 3 colors. Change directions and copy the CSS code when ready. Color Gradient Color Gradient CSS color generator for cool backgrounds and UI elements. Gradient Generator Gradient Generator Advanced CSS gradient generator by Josh W.Comeau . Lots of customization options such as color mode, angle, and easing curve. Josh W.Comeau CSS Gradient Generator CSS Gradient Generator Create linear and radial gradients. Experiment with random color modes and edit gradient directions. Switch between HEX and RGBA modes. Did You Like the Resources? Here's More 👇 Over the previous months, I've compiled The Ultimate Bundle with every resource you need from starting to learn to code to landing your dream tech role! Includes 900+ resources in total, further divided into 99 categories for easier navigation and access! Save 1000s of hours, and focus on what matters! I'm currently offering 50% OFF just for my readers! Don't miss out on this! ⭐ Get it here: Ultimate Resources Bundle to Land a Job in Tech ! ⭐ Get it here: Ultimate Resources Bundle to Land a Job in Tech Ultimate Resources Bundle to Land a Job in Tech Writing has always been my passion, and it gives me pleasure to help and inspire people. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out! Make sure to receive the best resources, tools, productivity tips, and career growth tips I discover by subscribing to my newsletter ! my newsletter my newsletter Also, connect with me on Twitter , LinkedIn , and GitHub ! Twitter Twitter LinkedIn LinkedIn GitHub GitHub Also published here . here

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Picture this: You're stuck in another soul-crushing Zoom meeting, fantasizing about your escape. "If only I found my true calling, then work would be amazing!" Sound familiar? Spoiler alert: that elusive dream job doesn't exist. The whole concept is designed to keep you spinning your wheels, never taking real action. Let's break down this comforting lie. The Dream Job Delusion We're spoon-fed the idea that out there is a magical job that will be fun every day, effortlessly match our skills, and change the world (all with flexible hours!). Problem is, this is a fairy tale, and it's harming more careers than it helps. Here's the harsh truth: The Fun Mirage: No job is a non-stop joyride. Even passion-fueled work has grunt work days, difficult clients, and setbacks. The Skill Lottery: Waiting to find something you're already good at limits your growth. Real fulfillment comes from tackling challenges and getting better over time. The Unicorn Syndrome: That perfect-sounding job posting? Written by an HR person, not your guardian angel. It probably involves 10 roles crammed into one impossible package. Mythbusting the "Perfect Fit" Here's the thing about career fulfillment – it's usually a messy, iterative process. Some of the most successful and satisfied people: Fell into their paths: Chance encounters, side projects, and "good enough" opportunities turned into something amazing with time and effort. Made their own damn job: Instead of seeking the ideal company, they carved their own niche, often finding more freedom and influence than on a traditional path. Prioritized people over job titles: They found a team or a boss who believed in them, creating space to grow and experiment far beyond the original job description. The Power of Doing Over Dreaming The antidote to the 'dream job' paralysis? Relentless action, guided by a few core principles: Seek the Stretch Zone: Where could you deliberately choose a bit of discomfort in exchange for massive growth potential, even if it's not a fairytale "fit"? Bet on Yourself, Not a Job Description: What problem can you solve, with or without a company backing you? Developing this skill makes you invaluable. Optimize for the Day-to-Day, Not the Title: Who will you be working with? What will you actually do? That matters more than prestige. The Choice Point It's tempting to cling to the dream job fantasy. But the really empowering question is this: How badly do you want to build a career you love? Enough to embrace some discomfort; to be more interested in doing than in finding the abstract ideal? What’s The Solution? Now… we’ve demolished the myth of the effortless, pre-destined "dream job." The good news is, that's way more liberating than it sounds. Instead of chasing an elusive target, what if we shift to a mindset of building the kind of career that truly empowers you? This is where the concept of a Power Portfolio comes in. What the Heck is a Power Portfolio? Think of it as a diversified collection of income streams, projects, and skillsets that grants you leverage and fuels a  fulfilling career journey: Multiple Revenue Streams: Not just your salary. Side hustles, small-scale experiments, or even building skills to consult in your niche down the line. The "Slash" Mentality: You're more than your job title. You're a marketer/writer/budding coder. More slashes = more optionality. Network as Net Worth: Prioritize real relationships with people in diverse fields. These connections become opportunity generators. Ownership Mindset: You're not a cog in a machine; you're a CEO even within a traditional job – seeking to expand your impact, not just complete tasks. Why a Portfolio Beats the Dream Job Hunt Here's where this gets strategically powerful: Recession-Proofing: If one income source falters, you have a safety net. Plus, diverse experience makes you more adaptable in a changing market. Negotiating Power: When you're not wholly reliant on one paycheck, you can walk away from bad situations, demanding the treatment you deserve. Discovering Hidden Opportunities: Side projects often turn into full-blown businesses or unexpected career shifts. This beats applying for jobs blindly. The Anti-Fragile Career: With a portfolio, you're constantly learning and evolving alongside market needs, not scrambling to catch up. How to Start Building Your Power Portfolio No need to quit your job tomorrow (unless you REALLY want to). Start small: List Your "Weird" Skills: The thing you do for fun but never put on a resume? That might be your niche consulting angle. The 5-Hour Side Hustle: Can you carve out 5 hours a week to build a tiny product, offer a service, or write a newsletter in your field? Micro-Mentorship: Find ONE person whose career you admire. Don't ask for a job, ask for a 20-minute informational chat. Connections compound rapidly. Document, Don't Just Do: Turn your work wins into case studies, and share your process on social media. Visibility = unexpected opportunities. The Power Portfolio Shift Building a career you love isn't about luck or finding the ONE true company. It's about cultivating a set of skills, revenue streams, and relationships that make you indispensable in any environment. It puts control back in your hands, even in chaotic times. Scott Picture this: You're stuck in another soul-crushing Zoom meeting, fantasizing about your escape. "If only I found my true calling , then work would be amazing!" true calling Sound familiar? Spoiler alert: that elusive dream job doesn't exist. The whole concept is designed to keep you spinning your wheels, never taking real action. Let's break down this comforting lie. The Dream Job Delusion The Dream Job Delusion We're spoon-fed the idea that out there is a magical job that will be fun every day, effortlessly match our skills, and change the world (all with flexible hours!). Problem is, this is a fairy tale, and it's harming more careers than it helps. Here's the harsh truth: The Fun Mirage: No job is a non-stop joyride. Even passion-fueled work has grunt work days, difficult clients, and setbacks. The Fun Mirage: No job is a non-stop joyride. Even passion-fueled work has grunt work days, difficult clients, and setbacks. The Fun Mirage: The Skill Lottery: Waiting to find something you're already good at limits your growth. Real fulfillment comes from tackling challenges and getting better over time. The Skill Lottery: Waiting to find something you're already good at limits your growth. Real fulfillment comes from tackling challenges and getting better over time. The Skill Lottery: already The Unicorn Syndrome: That perfect-sounding job posting? Written by an HR person, not your guardian angel. It probably involves 10 roles crammed into one impossible package. The Unicorn Syndrome: That perfect-sounding job posting? Written by an HR person, not your guardian angel. It probably involves 10 roles crammed into one impossible package. The Unicorn Syndrome: Mythbusting the "Perfect Fit" Mythbusting the "Perfect Fit" Here's the thing about career fulfillment – it's usually a messy, iterative process. Some of the most successful and satisfied people: Fell into their paths: Chance encounters, side projects, and "good enough" opportunities turned into something amazing with time and effort. Fell into their paths: Chance encounters, side projects, and "good enough" opportunities turned into something amazing with time and effort. Fell into their paths: Made their own damn job: Instead of seeking the ideal company, they carved their own niche, often finding more freedom and influence than on a traditional path. Made their own damn job: Instead of seeking the ideal company, they carved their own niche, often finding more freedom and influence than on a traditional path. Made their own damn job: Prioritized people over job titles: They found a team or a boss who believed in them, creating space to grow and experiment far beyond the original job description. Prioritized people over job titles: They found a team or a boss who believed in them, creating space to grow and experiment far beyond the original job description. Prioritized people over job titles: The Power of Doing Over Dreaming The Power of Doing Over Dreaming The antidote to the 'dream job' paralysis? Relentless action, guided by a few core principles: Seek the Stretch Zone: Where could you deliberately choose a bit of discomfort in exchange for massive growth potential, even if it's not a fairytale "fit"? Seek the Stretch Zone: Where could you deliberately choose a bit of discomfort in exchange for massive growth potential, even if it's not a fairytale "fit"? Seek the Stretch Zone: Bet on Yourself, Not a Job Description: What problem can you solve, with or without a company backing you? Developing this skill makes you invaluable. Bet on Yourself, Not a Job Description: What problem can you solve, with or without a company backing you? Developing this skill makes you invaluable. Bet on Yourself, Not a Job Description: Optimize for the Day-to-Day, Not the Title: Who will you be working with? What will you actually do? That matters more than prestige. Optimize for the Day-to-Day, Not the Title: Who will you be working with? What will you actually do ? That matters more than prestige. Optimize for the Day-to-Day, Not the Title: do The Choice Point The Choice Point It's tempting to cling to the dream job fantasy. But the really empowering question is this: How badly do you want to build a career you love? Enough to embrace some discomfort; to be more interested in doing than in finding the abstract ideal? What’s The Solution? What’s The Solution? Now… we’ve demolished the myth of the effortless, pre-destined "dream job." The good news is, that's way more liberating than it sounds. Instead of chasing an elusive target, what if we shift to a mindset of building the kind of career that truly empowers you? building This is where the concept of a Power Portfolio comes in. What the Heck is a Power Portfolio? What the Heck is a Power Portfolio? Think of it as a diversified collection of income streams, projects, and skillsets that grants you leverage and fuels a  fulfilling career journey: Multiple Revenue Streams: Not just your salary. Side hustles, small-scale experiments, or even building skills to consult in your niche down the line. Multiple Revenue Streams: Not just your salary. Side hustles, small-scale experiments, or even building skills to consult in your niche down the line. Multiple Revenue Streams: The "Slash" Mentality: You're more than your job title. You're a marketer/writer/budding coder. More slashes = more optionality. The "Slash" Mentality: You're more than your job title. You're a marketer/writer/budding coder. More slashes = more optionality. The "Slash" Mentality: Network as Net Worth: Prioritize real relationships with people in diverse fields. These connections become opportunity generators. Network as Net Worth: Prioritize real relationships with people in diverse fields. These connections become opportunity generators. Network as Net Worth: Ownership Mindset: You're not a cog in a machine; you're a CEO even within a traditional job – seeking to expand your impact, not just complete tasks. Ownership Mindset: You're not a cog in a machine; you're a CEO even within a traditional job – seeking to expand your impact, not just complete tasks. Ownership Mindset: Why a Portfolio Beats the Dream Job Hunt Why a Portfolio Beats the Dream Job Hunt Here's where this gets strategically powerful: Recession-Proofing: If one income source falters, you have a safety net. Plus, diverse experience makes you more adaptable in a changing market. Recession-Proofing: If one income source falters, you have a safety net. Plus, diverse experience makes you more adaptable in a changing market. Recession-Proofing: Negotiating Power: When you're not wholly reliant on one paycheck, you can walk away from bad situations, demanding the treatment you deserve. Negotiating Power: When you're not wholly reliant on one paycheck, you can walk away from bad situations, demanding the treatment you deserve. Negotiating Power: Discovering Hidden Opportunities: Side projects often turn into full-blown businesses or unexpected career shifts. This beats applying for jobs blindly. Discovering Hidden Opportunities: Side projects often turn into full-blown businesses or unexpected career shifts. This beats applying for jobs blindly. Discovering Hidden Opportunities: The Anti-Fragile Career: With a portfolio, you're constantly learning and evolving alongside market needs, not scrambling to catch up. The Anti-Fragile Career: With a portfolio, you're constantly learning and evolving alongside market needs, not scrambling to catch up. The Anti-Fragile Career: How to Start Building Your Power Portfolio How to Start Building Your Power Portfolio No need to quit your job tomorrow (unless you REALLY want to). Start small: List Your "Weird" Skills: The thing you do for fun but never put on a resume? That might be your niche consulting angle. List Your "Weird" Skills: The thing you do for fun but never put on a resume? That might be your niche consulting angle. List Your "Weird" Skills: The 5-Hour Side Hustle: Can you carve out 5 hours a week to build a tiny product, offer a service, or write a newsletter in your field? The 5-Hour Side Hustle: Can you carve out 5 hours a week to build a tiny product, offer a service, or write a newsletter in your field? The 5-Hour Side Hustle: Micro-Mentorship: Find ONE person whose career you admire. Don't ask for a job, ask for a 20-minute informational chat. Connections compound rapidly. Micro-Mentorship: Find ONE person whose career you admire. Don't ask for a job, ask for a 20-minute informational chat. Connections compound rapidly. Micro-Mentorship: Document, Don't Just Do: Turn your work wins into case studies, and share your process on social media. Visibility = unexpected opportunities. Document, Don't Just Do: Turn your work wins into case studies, and share your process on social media. Visibility = unexpected opportunities. Document, Don't Just Do: The Power Portfolio Shift The Power Portfolio Shift Building a career you love isn't about luck or finding the ONE true company. It's about cultivating a set of skills, revenue streams, and relationships that make you indispensable in any environment. It puts control back in your hands, even in chaotic times. Scott

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Predictions, dreams, and fortune-telling about the day after tomorrow in IT and beyond. Winter is the traditional time to try to predict in which direction technology will move and develop during the coming year. But why limit ourselves to such a short period of time? Let's try to go into “futurology and short-range sci-fi mode” and attempt to decipher the signals that our present is sending to the future. We’ll focus on, let's say, the next five to ten years. Particularly since we, thanks to breakthroughs in the practical application of artificial intelligence, have once again entered a fascinating "Spring of Technology" period. People love mobile devices. The all-knowing statisticians say that by early 2023, the number of mobile users had reached 5.44 billion (68% of the world's population), demonstrating an increase of 168 million users over 12 months. In 2023, around 1.45 billion smartphones were sold, with that figure expected to reach 1.78 billion units in 2028. To put it simply, the day is not far off when every person on the planet will have their own mobile IT device. Even infants. It is not so difficult to imagine some gadget, like a bracelet, which will not only report an infant’s various physiological data but utilize AI to interpret the babble of a child who has not yet learned to speak “adult” language. We think that this simple prediction serves us well as a bridge to our next question, "What will mobile devices be like in the near future?” It is worth remembering that humans are nomadic hunter-gatherers by origin. And somewhere in our subconscious, we are still haunted by the idea of a universal personal assistant that is always with us. We are sure that many of our readers still remember the last spring of technology, during which button cellphones developed explosively. They were created to fulfill a single purpose - to provide mobile voice communication. However, with incredible speed, they then acquired additional functions. And, for the most part, these new functions had nothing to do with telephony. It is interesting that often, new innovations were not developed by mobile phone designers but by amateurs who rewrote existing cellphone software. Cellphone designers discovered that there was a demand for phones to do more than just make calls and store contact information. People wanted to use their mobile devices to listen to music, look at pictures, read news and books, play games, check email, and so on and so forth. Catching the wave, mobile manufacturers rushed to satisfy the market’s desires. How did it turn out? Everything possible was squeezed out of button cellphone technology, and after several years of stagnation the current reigning technology, the ubiquitous smartphone as we know it today was born. A computer with a touch screen interface that occupies almost the entire surface of the device’s front side. Interestingly, the appearance of something similar was predicted ten to fifteen years before the first iPhone. At the time, in the 1990s, many people thought that the realization of this prediction was far off in a very distant future. A crewed flight to Mars seemed to be a much less fantastic proposal. Today, we observe approximately the same cellphone environment as seen at the beginning of the century. For a long time, smartphone creators have not offered us anything fundamentally new, instead focusing on solving horizontal tasks, like a little better camera, a little more powerful processor, and a little more memory... At the same time, attempts to push the envelope have often looked like a return to the past. Yes, you guessed it, we're talking about foldable smartphones. As far as we can judge, the solution to the problem of vertical progress in mobile devices has nothing to do with the search for a new form factor. Why? Look at your hand. That is the main limitation of imaginative design. So, it is quite possible that current designers and developers are not so wrong, mostly focusing on improving the standard smartphone’s stuffing. This does not change the fact that this stuffing must, at some point, become fundamentally different. And this evolution will definitely occur. In order for this to happen, it is necessary to change our very idea of what a smartphone is. What is a modern mobile device from the point of view of most people - both users and IT specialists? That's right - a desktop’s younger sibling. Most websites and software products are first created for desktops and then adapted into a mobile version. As a rule, mobile versions are simplified and with trimmed functionality compared to their desktop counterparts. But, there is a feeling of change in the air, and the idea of focusing on smartphones is not as counterintuitive as it first seems. Have you noticed that the classic desktop, by and large, has lost its competition with the laptop, which is essentially a mobile device as well? Turning most users’ smartphones into their primary computers looks like a logical next step. What Will It Look Like? The smartphone itself will not change much in appearance. However, its functionality will increase dramatically, both through peripherals and, of course, through software. Smartphones will play the role of the main unit of the computer. Instead of a desktop, there will be a base for the smartphone on a table, to which a monitor and keyboard will be connected. In the future, all of this will be unnecessary - the screen and keyboard will both be projected as a holographic image. The next step will then be to abandon the base - the smartphone itself will be able to project a large holo screen and full-size keyboard. Surely, in time, the above-mentioned abilities will also be acquired by smartwatches. Admit it, haven't you dreamed of talking to a hologram of your interlocutor in the style of Star Wars? However, much more important than these technical improvements will be fundamentally new software. It will bring smartphones to a qualitatively different level, transforming the device into a universal personal assistant, which people have been dreaming about since the first cellphone appeared. You must have already guessed what we are going to say. Yes, you're right. This software will be based on artificial intelligence. In fact, it will be an AI assistant, or rather a team of AI assistants for all occasions, freely supporting voice and text dialog. Such smartphones will search the Internet, answer any question, perform simultaneous multilingual translation from any language, make regular payments, monitor health, plot routes, assist with driving (or driving independently), warn of dangers, and so on and so forth. Believe us - we are not making this prediction because of our professional connection to the topic of artificial intelligence. The fact that we have the honor of belonging to the Pitch Avatar team does not prevent us from seeing AI rapidly penetrating into all spheres of life. Of course, for a full-fledged real-time interaction between a smartphone and its user, you will need an additional device that simultaneously outputs audio and visual information and, at the same time, leaves your hands free. Something like glasses with earbuds. Of course, it won't be something bulky like current virtual reality helmets and goggles. Designers (and modelers, where would we be without them?) will strive to create something compact and sleek. Like regular glasses - sunglasses or for vision correction. And with the help of this hypothetical device, it will be possible to experience augmented reality and dive into virtual reality. But, for more about this, you will have to wait for the next chapter of our future fantasy. The article was created in collaboration with Andriy Tkachenko Predictions, dreams, and fortune-telling about the day after tomorrow in IT and beyond. Predictions, dreams, and fortune-telling about the day after tomorrow in IT and beyond. Predictions, dreams, and fortune-telling about the day after tomorrow in IT and beyond. Winter is the traditional time to try to predict in which direction technology will move and develop during the coming year. But why limit ourselves to such a short period of time? Let's try to go into “futurology and short-range sci-fi mode” and attempt to decipher the signals that our present is sending to the future. We’ll focus on, let's say, the next five to ten years. Particularly since we, thanks to breakthroughs in the practical application of artificial intelligence, have once again entered a fascinating "Spring of Technology" period. People love mobile devices. The all-knowing statisticians say that by early 2023, the number of mobile users had reached 5.44 billion (68% of the world's population), demonstrating an increase of 168 million users over 12 months. In 2023, around 1.45 billion smartphones were sold, with that figure expected to reach 1.78 billion units in 2028. 5.44 billion 5.44 billion 1.45 billion smartphones 1.45 billion smartphones 1.78 billion 1.78 billion To put it simply, the day is not far off when every person on the planet will have their own mobile IT device. Even infants. It is not so difficult to imagine some gadget, like a bracelet, which will not only report an infant’s various physiological data but utilize AI to interpret the babble of a child who has not yet learned to speak “adult” language. We think that this simple prediction serves us well as a bridge to our next question, "What will mobile devices be like in the near future?” It is worth remembering that humans are nomadic hunter-gatherers by origin. And somewhere in our subconscious, we are still haunted by the idea of a universal personal assistant that is always with us. We are sure that many of our readers still remember the last spring of technology, during which button cellphones developed explosively. They were created to fulfill a single purpose - to provide mobile voice communication. However, with incredible speed, they then acquired additional functions. And, for the most part, these new functions had nothing to do with telephony. It is interesting that often, new innovations were not developed by mobile phone designers but by amateurs who rewrote existing cellphone software. Cellphone designers discovered that there was a demand for phones to do more than just make calls and store contact information. People wanted to use their mobile devices to listen to music, look at pictures, read news and books, play games, check email, and so on and so forth. Catching the wave, mobile manufacturers rushed to satisfy the market’s desires. How did it turn out? Everything possible was squeezed out of button cellphone technology, and after several years of stagnation the current reigning technology, the ubiquitous smartphone as we know it today was born. A computer with a touch screen interface that occupies almost the entire surface of the device’s front side. Interestingly, the appearance of something similar was predicted ten to fifteen years before the first iPhone. At the time, in the 1990s, many people thought that the realization of this prediction was far off in a very distant future. A crewed flight to Mars seemed to be a much less fantastic proposal. Today, we observe approximately the same cellphone environment as seen at the beginning of the century. For a long time, smartphone creators have not offered us anything fundamentally new, instead focusing on solving horizontal tasks, like a little better camera, a little more powerful processor, and a little more memory... At the same time, attempts to push the envelope have often looked like a return to the past. Yes, you guessed it, we're talking about foldable smartphones. As far as we can judge, the solution to the problem of vertical progress in mobile devices has nothing to do with the search for a new form factor. Why? Look at your hand. That is the main limitation of imaginative design. So, it is quite possible that current designers and developers are not so wrong, mostly focusing on improving the standard smartphone’s stuffing. This does not change the fact that this stuffing must, at some point, become fundamentally different. And this evolution will definitely occur. In order for this to happen, it is necessary to change our very idea of what a smartphone is. What is a modern mobile device from the point of view of most people - both users and IT specialists? That's right - a desktop’s younger sibling. Most websites and software products are first created for desktops and then adapted into a mobile version. As a rule, mobile versions are simplified and with trimmed functionality compared to their desktop counterparts. But, there is a feeling of change in the air, and the idea of focusing on smartphones is not as counterintuitive as it first seems. Have you noticed that the classic desktop, by and large, has lost its competition with the laptop, which is essentially a mobile device as well? Turning most users’ smartphones into their primary computers looks like a logical next step. What Will It Look Like? The smartphone itself will not change much in appearance. However, its functionality will increase dramatically, both through peripherals and, of course, through software. Smartphones will play the role of the main unit of the computer. Instead of a desktop, there will be a base for the smartphone on a table, to which a monitor and keyboard will be connected. In the future, all of this will be unnecessary - the screen and keyboard will both be projected as a holographic image. The next step will then be to abandon the base - the smartphone itself will be able to project a large holo screen and full-size keyboard. Surely, in time, the above-mentioned abilities will also be acquired by smartwatches. Admit it, haven't you dreamed of talking to a hologram of your interlocutor in the style of Star Wars? However, much more important than these technical improvements will be fundamentally new software. It will bring smartphones to a qualitatively different level, transforming the device into a universal personal assistant, which people have been dreaming about since the first cellphone appeared. You must have already guessed what we are going to say. Yes, you're right. This software will be based on artificial intelligence. In fact, it will be an AI assistant, or rather a team of AI assistants for all occasions, freely supporting voice and text dialog. Such smartphones will search the Internet, answer any question, perform simultaneous multilingual translation from any language, make regular payments, monitor health, plot routes, assist with driving (or driving independently), warn of dangers, and so on and so forth. Believe us - we are not making this prediction because of our professional connection to the topic of artificial intelligence. The fact that we have the honor of belonging to the Pitch Avatar team does not prevent us from seeing AI rapidly penetrating into all spheres of life. Pitch Avatar Pitch Avatar Of course, for a full-fledged real-time interaction between a smartphone and its user, you will need an additional device that simultaneously outputs audio and visual information and, at the same time, leaves your hands free. Something like glasses with earbuds. Of course, it won't be something bulky like current virtual reality helmets and goggles. Designers (and modelers, where would we be without them?) will strive to create something compact and sleek. Like regular glasses - sunglasses or for vision correction. And with the help of this hypothetical device, it will be possible to experience augmented reality and dive into virtual reality. But, for more about this, you will have to wait for the next chapter of our future fantasy. The article was created in collaboration with Andriy Tkachenko The article was created in collaboration with Andriy Tkachenko

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