Who WOULDN'T Want This?

[theropod]

I would like to have an augmented reality, so that whenever I'm talking to someone, a little pop-up box-visible only to me-would appear over their head, displaying:

• Their full name
• What they like to be called
• How we know each other
• Their birthday
• The name(s) of their spouse/partner/kids/pets
• WHAT IS INAPPROPRIATE TO JOKE ABOUT
• Color-

Comments

[ginamariewade]

I was watching something on TV that suggested that with smartphones, this might eventually become a reality, in the same way that Googlemaps has business information layered over street scenes.

[theropod]

I would even settle for the power of Billy Ocean, so that when I meet someone, in the blink of an eye I'd know their number and their name. Yeah.

[treebreeze]

Very useful!

[codeman38]

I'd like that, but only if it also included an option to turn on subtitles as necessary. Then I might actually be able to carry on a conversation in a noisy bar or restaurant!

[theropod]

Odds are, I'd be much, much harder to offend than a typical, hypothetical person. I'll even repeat a good gay joke if it's clever and not mean-spitited.

And if they DID cross that line, I'd know exactly how to send them off a sobbing wreck.