Enclair Expansion
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This document discusses expanding the capabilities of an "Elba" technology. It outlines several ideal experience scenarios that could be enabled by Elba, including sharing sensed experiences with others, using imagination to design architectural spaces, and interacting with fantasies. It also discusses potential logistics around using Elba for skills practice, shared dreaming, and musical composition. Finally, it mentions potential strategic partnerships around applications like treating Alzheimer's and providing sensory warnings in dangerous situations.
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- 1. Enclair Expansion Phase 2 Elba: Imagine with your senses open
- 2. Enclair Elba Expansion Phase Table of Contents Points of Departure & Compelling Motivators Ideal Experience Scenarios You Dare Take That YouCAD FantasiesRUs Dad as the ultimate ghost buster Technology & Logistics Scenarios Mad skillz Movie dreaming Orchestral Writing Strategic Partnership Scenarios Alzheimer cure 2.0 Another Day in Paradise Disclosures
- 3. Enclair Elba Expansion Phase Points of Departure & Compelling Motivators What could be possible? Elba is the island where Napo鐃 leon Bonaparte was exiled after renouncing power at Fontaineb鐃 leau. Napoleon, accompanied by a contingent of one thousand men and entitled Emperor of Elba by the Allies, introduced many governmental reforms in his new homeland in the habit of what he accomplished in Europe. Yet as history would later go on to record, it was apparent that in his mind he was still the Emperor of a much larger physical territo鐃 ry. Although Bonapartes empire was significantly reduced, he did not let that hinder his ambition. Where Napoleon was mentally was more significant than where he was physically in his journey toward the goal of self actualization. His work on Elba could have been interpreted as a weak signal by the Allies, indicating his desire to retake the status that he lost earlier. Elba is the modern projection of state of mind. What if the Allies could have known how Bonaparte perceived himself without having to interpret his physical actions? What if you could express yourself by injecting senses into an experience? What if you had total information about someone elses sensed experience? The stage on which you perform your life so that others may interpret, no longer contained by language, music, art or pictures, is truly felt with empathy. What if we each had the opportunity to escape our own Elbas together or conversely the ability to feel Napoleons raw ambition and see his imagination at work?
- 4. Enclair Elba Expansion Phase Ideal Experience Scenario Trends You dare take that! Total Information Awareness Havent been home for dinner on Sense as Platform: Tuesdays in ages! With my Elba Blackberry safely out of sight in my back pocket I sit down for Disclosure dinner with my wife and my son. Pattern Identification I promised Id shut if off while at Data Mining dinner, but my guys are working hard at finishing up a project and I want to make sure Im available in case they need me. My wife tells me about how her library project is going and reminds me we need to go shopping for diapers tomorrow night. Im having a lot of fun. My mind is nowhere near work. Nicolas has so many new words to say. Ive longed for this day for weeks now. Hows your project going? she Partnerships asks. Before I get a chance to open my mouth, my Blackberry makes Research in its present felt. It mustve recognized that my mind literally switched to Motion work mode and it will now synch up with all the emails I got since the last time I was thinking about work.
- 5. Enclair Elba Expansion Phase Ideal Experience Scenario Trends YouCAD Total Information She steps out of the car for her Awareness first site visit. Shes never been in this part of town and shes a Sense as Platform: Elba bit weary of the fact that her de鐃 manding client decided to come Disclosure with to see what she thought Data Mining of this location. She reluctantly Pattern Identification passes her client the small digi鐃 Crowd Sourcing tal display which wirelessly al鐃 Decision Making Tools lows the client to see what she Information Security sees in her contact lenses. She still remembers the thrill she felt the first day she signed up to this service that allowed her to imagine with her eyes open. She hated that Partnerships before her physical surroundings were interfering with her imagina鐃 tion rather than providing a context for her imagination to take shape. AutoCAD She quickly imagines a big majestic entrance to what the client wants Architecture Firms to become more than just a dental office in this hip downtown up and coming neighborhood. The client sees this on her display and quickly dismisses it as a bit too much. After a few iterations they decide on the big gestures of the space. By the time she returns to her office, she already has 2 offers from contractors bidding on the manufacturing of the doors. She opens up AutoCAD and imports the model from her mind to start refining it.
- 6. Enclair Elba Expansion Phase Ideal Experience Scenario Trends FantasiesRUs Total Information He steps into his New York apartment Awareness and slowly makes his way to the couch. Hes had an amazing night with Natalie. Sense as Platform: She had invited him upstairs but before Elba they exited the elevator she got a call Disclosure from work that a client account that she was managing has just become do or die Data Mining and she was due at the client side across Information Security country first thing in the morning. Pattern Identification Crowd Sourcing She kissed him goodnight and promised shed make it up to him. But he couldnt wait. All he could imagine was her naked. He turned on the app he just purchased from Playboy.com, turned on the music and the lights and there she was dancing for him in his living room via his contact lenses. Partnerships Playboy
- 7. Enclair Elba Expansion Phase Ideal Experience Scenario Trends Dad as the ultimate ghost buster Total Information In history class our assignment last night was to build a fort in our Awareness room and come back today and tell the class what we learned. Its Nicolas turn to present. He has the wackiest Sense as Platform: Elba stories to tell and Im sure this one wont disap鐃 m m t t point. Disclosure He speaks about how he built a fort on top of Pattern Identification Crowd Sourcing his bed to keep the dragons at bay. But his real Joint Experience story is about when he tried to go back to sleep for some reason the moment he would close his eyes the dragons kept flying into the castle. His restlessness woke his dad up from the couch. He suggested his dad plugs himself into Nicolas Elba device. Nicolas agrees and instantly his dad appears in his imagination fighting the dragons one by one. Im going to go home Partnerships tonight and ask my parents to sign us up and throw away that 3D TV! Early Childhood Education Toy R Us
- 8. Enclair Elba Expansion Phase Technology & Logistics Scenario Trends Mad skillz Total Information Greg doesnt remember the last time he Awareness actually bought music, but he trusted his friend sitting now beside him in the sub鐃 Sense as Platform: Elba way that this was a really cool new band and that it really is his style of music. He Disclosure cranks up the volume and 30 seconds Crowd Sourcing into the first song turns to his buddy and yells way too loud: This is dope dude! He feels inspired. Hes in the moment and starts playing the air drums. Almost instantly on his contact lenses he sees the subway car floor become a stage surrounded by a crowd larger than hes Partnerships ever been a part of. The drums have the Yamaha logo front and center and he is rocking them really good. Instrument Firms Optical Firms He offers one of the headphones to his friend. After all, this was his find. Johns thing is the air guitar and he quickly appears to the left of the stage playing what else, but a Yamaha guitar. John, again way too loud, screams from the top of his lungs: My parents told me when they were young they had to take drugs to feel this good!
- 9. Enclair Elba Expansion Phase Technology & Logistics Scenario Trends Movie dreaming Total Information Its been a long day. Julie Awareness walks home slowly. Shes tired but not defeated. Shes Sense as Platform: Elba was at 3 auditions today but none of them seemed to be Disclosure promising. Shes either too fat or not fat enough. She Data Mining Crowd Sourcing either smiles too much or Rapid Speech to Text sobs out of synch with her Information Security scene partner. Not to men鐃 tion her accent. She was warned that breaking into the movie business will be tough, but she never expected this. She gets home, but because she Partnerships is now confused whether she needs to eat more or less she decided MGM to take a vitamin pill instead of sitting down for a proper dinner. Before her stomach has enough time to break down the pill, she crashes on Castle Rock the couch. She is rudely awakened 7 hours later (even though it only feels like after only 5 minutes) by the annoying ringtone of her phone. She had never gotten around to changing the ringtone, nor would she be technically capable to do so had she had the time. Its her agent. I loved it! he screams. Excuse me?! says Julie. Your dream! I just got it! You did a perfect Meryl Streep! I sent it over to the director already. I think the part is in the bank! I smell Oscar!. It took Julie a couple of minutes to realize what just happened. She has subscribed to this service which would send her and whoever else she chose her dreams as a movie reel every morning. She mustve rehearsed to much playing Meryl in her autobiographic movie that she had a dream about the audition she was only scheduled to have later in the week. Great! she jumps out of bed. By the time she comes out from the washroom she sees she has a message on her answering ma鐃 chine. Its her therapist.
- 10. Enclair Elba Expansion Phase Technology & Logistics Scenario Trends Orchestral writing Total Information Evelyn Glennie is a deaf, world renowned percussionist. She cant hear Awareness the music, but she can feel it. She walks barefoot from one instrument to the next and she leaves her audiences speechless. Sense as Platform: Elba Today shes premiering a world tour. But this time she will travel light. No Disclosure big percussion instruments. She signed up to this service that will allow her to simply plug her beautiful mind into the Elba device and convert the Electronic Music melodies in her mind into actual sound. In fact, for the second part of the Translation concert she will invite a local musical prodigy on the stage with her and they will jam together simply by having their minds plugged into the audio system of the opera. I cant wait! Partnerships Apple Symphonies
- 11. Enclair Elba Expansion Phase Strategic Partnership Scenario Trends Alzheimer cure 2.0 Total Information My grandma has had Alzheimer Awareness pretty much for as long as I can re鐃 member. It has gotten a lot worse Sense as Platform: Elba since my grandfather passed. Up until a month ago, you never knew Disclosure who you were going to get when Data Mining we visited her for our Sunday get鐃 Pattern Recognition togethers. Information Security My mom signed her up to this new service though. When she sees you or when you talk to her about something, if her brain cannot find you or what youre talking about in the hippocampus (the area of the brain where recent memory is stored Partnerships and retrieved from and which Alzheimer attacks), it can tap into this ser鐃 Health Care Firms vice that searches an online storage of your recent events. A device that Retirement Homes she wears captures video or audio memories throughout my grandmas day and stores/indexes them in this online storage for later retrieval. Ive never seen my grandma so happy to see and hear us in a long long while!
- 12. Enclair Elba Expansion Phase Strategic Partnership Scenario Trends Another Day in Paradise Total Information It was my last time outside the Awareness wire. In one week I would finally Sense as Platform: be getting out of here. Not that I Elba really minded it. The game had just become stale and I was Disclosure ready for a change. I mounted Pattern Identificaton up with the rest of my unit and began the dedious task of Electronic Foreign Language translation house clearing. This patrol was no different than any other. Clear this street of insurgents and move Decision Making Tools on to the next. If anything suspisious was found, like an improvised Misinformation tools explosive device, call in the guys with the skills. It was getting late in Information Security the day and the boys were getting tired looking forward to some much Partnerships needed rack time. One last street. The unit had gone months without Lockhead Martin incident, but two weeks ago fortunes turned. On that day nothing General Dynamics much seemed out of the ordinary to the casual observer. We turned the corner and it was the same old scene, but I felt some鐃 thing was different. Bombed out houses and just a few people milling about. A red sensor started blinking in my line of sight. Goosepumps and a chill ran through me. I halted the team. The pulstating red blob started to go nuts. I motioned for everyone to get down. Something was up. Elba was recongizing similar patterns in the surroundings around me as two weeks ago, compiling those patterns with my bio feedback and warning me. Assessing the information, I ordered no one to go near any of the structures that surrounded us and radioed for the local bomb squad. Sure enough, two houses down the bomb squad found a couple of devices that would have ended my tour one week short of a happy ending.
- 13. Enclair Elba Expansion Phase Disclosure Trends Sometime ago we trained ourselves into believing that imagination gets in the way. How many pitches did you hear that start with: Close Total Information your eyes and imagine thisWe close our eyes because weve told Awareness ourselves that imagination belongs somewhere in the back of our Sense as Platform: mind, it is restricted to our dreams or our moments of complete intoxi鐃 Elba cation. Disclosure At the same time there are people walking among us we call some鐃 times autistic, sometimes savants. They have learned to think in pic鐃 Data Minng tures. They have learned to store and interpret their reality in pictures. Pattern Identifcation Likewise, we have allowed and more often demanded that we have Electronic Foreign access to all the information possible. An influx of data ensued that Language Translation Crowd Sourcing is making us more and more turn off our email client and automati鐃 Decision Making Tools cally send to junk mail anything that was not personally addressed to Misinformation Tools us. We are inundated with information. All the information at all times. Rapid Speech to Text Just in case we need it. Our devices and our data has only 2 modes: Information Security on or off. If its on we cant manage it. If its off were worried about what we are missing and are becoming more and more superficially Partnerships involved in our other tasks to the point where most of us can be safely diagnosed with ADD. Wireless Service Providers And in all of this, the device that we should rely on more and more for Intelligence & Analytic the benefit of our evolutionary path is getting left behind. We use our Firms brain less and less and we have outsourced our decision making abil鐃 ity to others. Elba aims to change all this. Elba believes in the power of our brain and our mind to shape our future. Elba is composed of three parts: a device that receives brain signals from all areas of your brain; a collection of specialized apps (depending on where the signals are gen鐃 erated, how intense they are, etc.) that can make meaning out of those signals and contact lenses which can display visual interpretations of that mean鐃 ing overlaid on top of what your eyes can see. The specialized apps would be developed by partner enterprises which have deep expertise in one knowledge domain. Elba is less about bringing the external into your physical reality, but rather bringing imagination and sense into a new physical reality. It is about how small changes in pieces of data can change entire sys鐃 tems.