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Lunchtime logic on the last day of CHI

CHI has been exhilarating, and I have oodles of posts to upload. The ones with HCI merit will appear over the next week, when I've had a few days to process my thoughts (and, well, fly home). For those of you who asked for my slides, they'll go up then, too. But a teaser: After three days of intense usability, accessibility, visualization, and robotics, this is the kind of elegant conversation some of us had over lunch:

The other day, Google returned AdWords that were tailored to my location.
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Goggle knows my IP address.
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SkyNet has won.
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We humans had a good run, a few million years.
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At least we had TiVo.
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Yeah, the dinosaurs didn't have that.
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Try giving them a remote!
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But, we should consider accesibility issues for everyone.
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Including dinosaurs.
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How about a one-button mouth remote?
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For dinosaurs?
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Or, more currently, for robots.
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No -- dino robots.
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From outer space.
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Yeah, the one-button mouth remote for dino robots from outer space. Time to apply for the patent.