I can only imagine what it would look like if it were trying to get me buy a Subway sandwich for 50 cents off or convince me to get some new jeans at the Gap, but if those companies are smart they'll partner with some source of ambient information broadcast.
From gritty skid row warehouse parties to New Age ambient internet radio broadcasts, LA's choose-your-own-adventure mentality is on full display in the latest edition of Resident Advisor's Real Scenes film series.
By 1987, Thatcher's final broadcast, she's initially an ambient presence.
The scientists placed juvenile damselfish in the wild on isolated experimental reefs, and then either broadcast recordings of motorboats or the ambient sounds of their habitat.
It was sort of nice, the steady pitter-patter of the rain, like one of them ambient sleep-sounds CDs lightly playing under the broadcast, perhaps to lull it's upper-demo audience into a pleasantly somnolent state, if indeed they needed much help.
But that means you won't have to visit Facebook or Twitter where you collide with what others create, diminishing the ambient intimacy they offer and turning them into ego-driven broadcast channels.
Once models are broadcasted to the Internet, new and intelligent search engines, "ambient" intelligent devices and agents will be able to exploit this knowledge network.
In his first letter to Microsoft employees, Nadella rhapsodized about how, in the future, "computing will become even more ubiquitous and intelligence will become ambient" in a "software-powered world". Software, he added, in a mock interview that was broadcast on the Web this afternoon, is going to mediate everything.
However, the recording carries no ambient noise — the sounds of a motor, the sea or wind — that would be expected if the broadcast had been made from one of the five small boats that sped around the three-ship American convoy.
