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AI and AR can supercharge ‘ambient computing’

“Sal awakens; she smells coffee. A few minutes ago her alarm clock, alerted by her restless rolling before waking, had quietly asked ‘coffee?’ and she mumbled ‘yes.’ ‘Yes’ and ‘no’ are the only words it knows.” Then, the alarm clock tells the coffee maker to get busy — and Sal’s morning has begun. This scenario was described by Mark Weiser, a computer scientist and the CTO  at Xerox PARC in 1991 when he wrote a…