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What? How could you possibly say that? They can take a picture of something and then auto make a note, or a reminder, or an email, or find out what it is.

Normies struggle with the nuance of devices. They understand what they want, they don't understand steps, like start here then do this, then go here and copy this, then go there. This SKIPS all the steps. This is huge for them, but (probably) just mildly convenient for others.



>find out what it is

Google Googles did this 13 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Goggles

It remains interesting to me how much we have been able to do, already, with technology. But discoverability, walled gardens, and <hand waving>marketing/positioning/hype</hand waving> have obscured awareness/adoption.


This is really really old tech that normies definitely do not care about.




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