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« Reply #15 on: <07-28-11/0350:34> »
Om a similar note, notice in Unwired about the discussion of an iconographic language. Yes, it will be easier to communicate to people of all languages, but it won't be something you can write out. Gonna have to be typed. And it won't be spoken, either. So, communications will improve over a text-style basis, but you will need a computer between the two, and I can see spoken word language becoming rapidly obsolete at that point.

Would slightly disagree. I dont see the spoken word going away, rather a blending of the text-speek and normal speach. We already see it today, how many people will use LOL, OMG, BFF, when not texting? Go talk to any wired-in teenager and see what you get. Again, amp this to the Nth degree and we got the new predominant language.
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« Reply #16 on: <07-28-11/0909:59> »
RE House of Waffles mentioned above-  you walk into a casual place and you subscribe your PAN.  A AR hostess indicates which table is open, although there may still be someone working the door for someone who comes in with a bare bones comelink and no AR gear.  You review the menu either in AR or on your 'link.  If you know what you want you just order right there.  If you want to talk to someone you probably hit the "call server" button and a server will turn up.

In the kitchen there are fairly advanced versions of the home autocook cranking out the food, but there are probably several employees who are reloading them with raw materials, keeping the plates on the bar organized for pickup, making sure that the toast from machine A gets to the eggs on the plate from machine B.  Probably no one is back there that we would call a cook, but there would be some hands on logistics to make sure it all went well and stayed organized.

Servers still bring you the food, check to see if you need a soycaf refill, etc.  The cost of the meal was debited automatically from your account when you ordered it, so there is no cashier.  If you want to leave a tip you switch to AR and drag some funds to the server's AR icon and wait for the "ching" noise.

There would be a manager or two that does the paperwork, schedules everyone, orders supplies, and calls the repair service when the dish washer goes on the fritz.  Pretty much everyone but the manager would be flat low lifestyle. The manager probably doesn't make a full medium lifestyle, but is a bit better off.

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« Reply #17 on: <07-28-11/1230:28> »
Om a similar note, notice in Unwired about the discussion of an iconographic language. Yes, it will be easier to communicate to people of all languages, but it won't be something you can write out. Gonna have to be typed. And it won't be spoken, either. So, communications will improve over a text-style basis, but you will need a computer between the two, and I can see spoken word language becoming rapidly obsolete at that point.
Would slightly disagree. I dont see the spoken word going away, rather a blending of the text-speek and normal speach. We already see it today, how many people will use LOL, OMG, BFF, when not texting? Go talk to any wired-in teenager and see what you get. Again, amp this to the Nth degree and we got the new predominant language.
Or just a corrupted language.  Which, considering English to begin with...
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« Reply #18 on: <07-29-11/0056:07> »
Drones are also less likely to show up to work drunk/stoned/chipped.

Ummm...page 238 SR4. "The key difference that sets drones apart from ordinary vehicles is the rigger adaptation that provides drones with a Pilot program, which enables the drone to act independently of its controllers to a limited degree. ... Alternately, a rigger can choose to issue orders to a drone and then unsubscribe it and trust its dogbrain to carry out the orders."

A drone is not a robot. Sorry if I am misconstruing your original statement.  :)
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« Reply #19 on: <07-29-11/0816:48> »
Om a similar note, notice in Unwired about the discussion of an iconographic language. Yes, it will be easier to communicate to people of all languages, but it won't be something you can write out. Gonna have to be typed. And it won't be spoken, either. So, communications will improve over a text-style basis, but you will need a computer between the two, and I can see spoken word language becoming rapidly obsolete at that point.
Would slightly disagree. I dont see the spoken word going away, rather a blending of the text-speek and normal speach. We already see it today, how many people will use LOL, OMG, BFF, when not texting? Go talk to any wired-in teenager and see what you get. Again, amp this to the Nth degree and we got the new predominant language.
Or just a corrupted language.  Which, considering English to begin with...

Which is still a language, as annoying a thing as we may think of it. Even pure ones tend to get transformed as more words are co-oped to mean other things or as slang eventually becomes recognized as part of the lexicon. 
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