Plans & hopes for the next year or so...

Sadly, this project continues to progress at a snail's pace. However, I do really hope to begin having things to show for it within the next year. Exactly what the year will bring is unknown, but here are the things I plan to work on:

1. Implementing my Multimedia Human-Readable Memory Archive. (Which is sort of like the Microsoft "My Life Bits" project) I've actually been making some good progress on this already, so I have high hopes to get this into some kind of usable shape over the next few months.


2. Adding working newsfeed support to the above. Because I'm not entirely happy with my current aggregator or any of the other newsfeed aggregators I've looked at, I consider this feature to be a high priority.


3. Re-implementing Sunil Vemuri's iRemember technology, using my MHRMA. I've already been doing the research on how to accomplish this and I feel I'm getting close to attempting implementation on it. My version isn't a carbon-copy re-implementation, as I'm making changes to the feature list. (Both additions and deletions.)


4. Purchase a Spyke robot and begin hacking on it. I really hope to get one of these as soon as the are available in the US. Crossing my fingers and hoping for no financial disasters in my life, (and a timely product launch) I'm expecting to have one of these by the end of the summer.


5. Explore using Second Life as a platform for developing my AI on. The open source client technology (including libsecondlife among other things) should make it relatively easy to use for this purpose. I may be wrong.


6. Doing the design work on my command and control systems and working out how to integrate both my online avatars and my real world robots (Spyke, specifically).


7. Performing some experiments: I've got most of the materials to do some of the low-level experiments I've been planning on both my android work and my "invisible" glove-embedded cording keyboard. None of these are earth-shaking but they are essential first steps.


8. Buy Steve Mann's book about his eyetap technology and begin planning to build one of my own.

If I can complete any two of these things, I'll have made more concrete progress than I've made since the start of this project. Well, maybe that's a bit harsh.

What have I accomplished so far?

1. Acquired a 7' tall 19" rack
   
2. I've bought and flashed my zipit with linux.
   
3. wiki'ed much of the planning and research work for this project
   
4. Built my NEAT desk. -- Not explicitly part of this project but semi-transhuman in nature.
   
5. Done lots of reading related to this project.
   

It's not as much as I had hoped but I guess I had to start somewhere. We shall see how the rest of 2007 goes.