There was an implied understanding when you read or heard the phrase 'Smartly Dressed' that a certain someone was always smartly dressed. It meant that the dressee was aware of sartorial nuances and chose to suit himself or herself in a manner that the populace deemed was attractive.
These days the term may have lost its meaning. Meaning - Enter The Wearables.
Those that live outside the bubble we call the valley aka Silicon Alley - may not be familiar with this strange choice of words. Let me explain.
Computing has got out of hand in a manner of speaking where it is now on the hand. Personal and intimate is how the CEO of Apple Computer called it when he recently introduced a product to the world called a SMART WATCH. More aptly it was called the 'Apple Watch'. This is a category of product called Wearables. Smart devices meant to be worn (out)!
Now why you would watch an apple is beyond me - after all Newton already did and figured out what there was to figure out. But any who if that is your thing then you belong to a select group (that needs watching) called watchers of Apple (the company not the fruit) that will always be agog with the next - one more thing!
It happens that America is now pushing the concept of wearable computers to the masses. First there was an attempt to provide people with Google Glass. This concept basically says that you wear glasses that are going to function as the computer on your nose. Always on (not the nose - that too but - as in always ready for service) - at least when you are ON - and provide the wearee with instant information on what they were looking at even if they were not. Or provide email/contact info/ and other mundane data that one might require from getting worn out.
That seemed to look too geeky or non-ergonomic and it did not reach the hype the company was hoping. Audience saw it as a 'Glass' half full (of something).
Now the next phase of this wearable movement came when Apple introduced their version of a smart watch to go with the smart phone as people drank smart water that the smart watch recommended.
Pretty soon there will be smart pants and smart shirts and maybe no clothes but just smart bands of varying colors and designs that people wear all over their bodies to make up for the clothes they do not own.
Smartly dressed that one, would simply mean that the wearee is adorned with so much computing power that their brains which once served that function will no longer continue to learn and develop but merely get smaller and smaller at which point there will not be a human.
Thus at some point there will be no one left to wear the smart computers because humans will cease to exist. That's smart?
This is how you smartly undress the latest pitch from the valley!
These days the term may have lost its meaning. Meaning - Enter The Wearables.
Those that live outside the bubble we call the valley aka Silicon Alley - may not be familiar with this strange choice of words. Let me explain.
Computing has got out of hand in a manner of speaking where it is now on the hand. Personal and intimate is how the CEO of Apple Computer called it when he recently introduced a product to the world called a SMART WATCH. More aptly it was called the 'Apple Watch'. This is a category of product called Wearables. Smart devices meant to be worn (out)!
Now why you would watch an apple is beyond me - after all Newton already did and figured out what there was to figure out. But any who if that is your thing then you belong to a select group (that needs watching) called watchers of Apple (the company not the fruit) that will always be agog with the next - one more thing!
It happens that America is now pushing the concept of wearable computers to the masses. First there was an attempt to provide people with Google Glass. This concept basically says that you wear glasses that are going to function as the computer on your nose. Always on (not the nose - that too but - as in always ready for service) - at least when you are ON - and provide the wearee with instant information on what they were looking at even if they were not. Or provide email/contact info/ and other mundane data that one might require from getting worn out.
That seemed to look too geeky or non-ergonomic and it did not reach the hype the company was hoping. Audience saw it as a 'Glass' half full (of something).
Now the next phase of this wearable movement came when Apple introduced their version of a smart watch to go with the smart phone as people drank smart water that the smart watch recommended.
Pretty soon there will be smart pants and smart shirts and maybe no clothes but just smart bands of varying colors and designs that people wear all over their bodies to make up for the clothes they do not own.
Smartly dressed that one, would simply mean that the wearee is adorned with so much computing power that their brains which once served that function will no longer continue to learn and develop but merely get smaller and smaller at which point there will not be a human.
Thus at some point there will be no one left to wear the smart computers because humans will cease to exist. That's smart?
This is how you smartly undress the latest pitch from the valley!
Too smart for our own good- and 'dress sense'.
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