"The panel imagined a new Augmented Reality version of Clippy, “Reality Clippy”, that would use all of the available online data about your preferences and past actions (all your Foursquare checkins, Yelp and Amazon reviews, credit card purchases, Tweets, etc.) to suggest next actions you could take while moving about the city. As Cal Henderson reductio ad absurdum-ed it at one point: maybe we could get the interface down to an iPhone app that would superimpose a bright white line over the camera’s view of the surrounding street just telling us where to walk and what to do and buy all day long. Wouldn’t that be a bit of a relief?"

— All Watched Over: On Foo, Cybernetics, and Big Data

12:41 am  •  23 June 2011