Clyde DeSouza's Blog - Posts Tagged "artificial-intelligence"
In Memories with Maya, human sexuality gets an upgrade
What happens when you mix virtual reality, haptic interfaces, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence?
That’s what Clyde deSouza explores in his highly entertaining near-future science-fiction novel, Memories with Maya.
DeSouza introduces the “Wizer,” an augmented-reality, see-through visor driven by AGI (artificial general intelligence) — Google Glass on steroids.
It’s coupled with 3D scans of real environments generated by wall-mounted laser cameras (think next-gen Kinect) to insert remote participants seamlessly in real environments, Holodeck-style, DeSouza explained to me...
...Read the rest on the popular science site: i09.com
Till Death do us part - The ethics and evolution of human relationships
By - Joe Nickence
Posted: Sep 4, 2013
This essay contains spoilers from a book I’ve read, “Memories with Maya” by Clyde DeSouza.
I’ve read it a few times now and each time I did, I’ve picked up a different outlook on just what it means to be human in today’s hyper-paced technological world.
In composing this article, I had to make myself think about not just my own perspective, but what others will consider in really just a few years from now.
Everyone is familiar with the human urge to meet that special someone in their lives.
We either consciously or subconsciously check out members of the opposite sex and make mental notes of things we like physically. The protagonist in the book, Dan, starts out in the story by using his phone to focus on his close female friend, Maya, checking out her cleavage. Just a bit later in the book, we learn that Dan and Maya are a casual couple. Much of the story is interwoven with their relationship.
What makes their relationship unique? Technology. What makes any relationship unique today? Technology.
Long Distance Petting
Many years ago when I was dating, the landline telephone was instrumental in maintaining my relationship with my girlfriend. Most times we only had an hour at best to set up our daily lives in high school. There was no Internet. Most dates were mainly copying each other’s homework, in between watching a 19 inch tube TV. In “Maya”, the world is very contemporary. Cameras in cell phones, large screen televisions, and remote controlled petting many miles away from each other.
What will pass for maintaining a meaningful relationship in the future?...
Read the entire article on the IEET website
Posted: Sep 4, 2013
This essay contains spoilers from a book I’ve read, “Memories with Maya” by Clyde DeSouza.
I’ve read it a few times now and each time I did, I’ve picked up a different outlook on just what it means to be human in today’s hyper-paced technological world.
In composing this article, I had to make myself think about not just my own perspective, but what others will consider in really just a few years from now.
Everyone is familiar with the human urge to meet that special someone in their lives.
We either consciously or subconsciously check out members of the opposite sex and make mental notes of things we like physically. The protagonist in the book, Dan, starts out in the story by using his phone to focus on his close female friend, Maya, checking out her cleavage. Just a bit later in the book, we learn that Dan and Maya are a casual couple. Much of the story is interwoven with their relationship.
What makes their relationship unique? Technology. What makes any relationship unique today? Technology.
Long Distance Petting
Many years ago when I was dating, the landline telephone was instrumental in maintaining my relationship with my girlfriend. Most times we only had an hour at best to set up our daily lives in high school. There was no Internet. Most dates were mainly copying each other’s homework, in between watching a 19 inch tube TV. In “Maya”, the world is very contemporary. Cameras in cell phones, large screen televisions, and remote controlled petting many miles away from each other.
What will pass for maintaining a meaningful relationship in the future?...
Read the entire article on the IEET website
Huffington Post - Memories With Maya is a magic carpet ride...
At the Being Human 2013 Conference in San Francisco, publisher and moderator Peter Baumann refreshed us with the absence of contention. Minds were on free-range looseness that served up, as Jason Silva appropriately calls it, plenty of "shots of awe."
I got my own personal shot of awe when author Clyde DeSouza asked me to review his "sci-fi" novel, Memories With Maya. He pulls an epic amount of research into his storyline on augmented eyeglass technology and visorwear. In his novel, two friends invent the AR/AGI Wizer, and add sensory haptics for a remote interface experience, so that full-body enhancement is "fleshed out" with a friend of your choice.
DeSouza goes even further, by suggesting memories in the brain of lost loved ones can be uploaded into Wizer, where they are retrieved "from the dead." They become dearly beloved "dirrogates," and their memory "lives on," thanks to the non-referential locality of memory in the brain. When a virtual marriage took place several years ago, the digital world blessed the union. The groom couldn't live without his Second Life virtual partner, so he married her.
DeSouza's book sent me on a nomadic techno-journey across digital territory for weeks. Now I was late publishing his review, but I couldn't help myself. My brain, hijacked by millions of neurons, was feeding off the unlimited supply of high-carb links DeSouza sent, which included inventors of 3D/AGI visor/ eyewear that I could actually buy without a prescription or even a special invite.
read the whole review on The Huffington Post
I got my own personal shot of awe when author Clyde DeSouza asked me to review his "sci-fi" novel, Memories With Maya. He pulls an epic amount of research into his storyline on augmented eyeglass technology and visorwear. In his novel, two friends invent the AR/AGI Wizer, and add sensory haptics for a remote interface experience, so that full-body enhancement is "fleshed out" with a friend of your choice.
DeSouza goes even further, by suggesting memories in the brain of lost loved ones can be uploaded into Wizer, where they are retrieved "from the dead." They become dearly beloved "dirrogates," and their memory "lives on," thanks to the non-referential locality of memory in the brain. When a virtual marriage took place several years ago, the digital world blessed the union. The groom couldn't live without his Second Life virtual partner, so he married her.
DeSouza's book sent me on a nomadic techno-journey across digital territory for weeks. Now I was late publishing his review, but I couldn't help myself. My brain, hijacked by millions of neurons, was feeding off the unlimited supply of high-carb links DeSouza sent, which included inventors of 3D/AGI visor/ eyewear that I could actually buy without a prescription or even a special invite.
read the whole review on The Huffington Post
Free! Memories With Maya update
I've updated the plot in Memories with Maya to conform to the Screenplay being developed.
Expect a few interesting turn of events, plot devices and a further tightening of the story.
The updated version is up on Amazon and SmashWords.
I've also kept it as a free download for reader's who've bought the paperback version from Amazon.
Enjoy the read!
I'm grateful for the feedback.
Kind Regards.
Expect a few interesting turn of events, plot devices and a further tightening of the story.
The updated version is up on Amazon and SmashWords.
I've also kept it as a free download for reader's who've bought the paperback version from Amazon.
Enjoy the read!
I'm grateful for the feedback.
Kind Regards.
The Pioneer newspaper Delhi edition - Introducing Hard Scifi to India
Today's edition of The Pioneer introduces hard science fiction to India via Penguin Books' MAYA.
The interview also has some of my thoughts on the story, the need for more hard science fiction in India... and other topics such as transhumanism
The interview on their online edition:
http://bit.ly/1zyoX56
MAYA - Epilogue in a motion comic
See the first trailer
HERE
CC: What if the Mayan's were right?
What use was time? In an era where people would soon be, immortal?
Our deceased loved ones, are reborn. They see and feel through us.
Digital Surrogates are all around us.
But, sometimes, surrogates can hack, our minds...
MAYA - A three sixty Virtual Reality motion comic... Coming, soon.
HERECC: What if the Mayan's were right?
What use was time? In an era where people would soon be, immortal?
Our deceased loved ones, are reborn. They see and feel through us.
Digital Surrogates are all around us.
But, sometimes, surrogates can hack, our minds...
MAYA - A three sixty Virtual Reality motion comic... Coming, soon.
