Chew to the Beet
I'd always longed for the ability to access the perfect song to compliment the mood I was experiencing or wanting to experience, the soundtrack of my life. Bouncy summer tunes for the bike ride home, unwinding mellowness late at night, drivingly productive background music while coding, the occasional conceptual song to remind me of what's important, sappy love ballads looking into my darling's eyes, boom chicka mauw mauw while gettin it on.

Laziness made me miss the iPod bandwagon, and the 50gb of music I ripped never really got categorized correctly before evaporating a couple hard drive crashes ago. I used Yahoo Launchcast Music religiously at work for a long time, rating thousands of songs, but when I switched ISPs and lost my premium account, I was subjected to commercials and lower audio quality...Next! Pandora is pretty good, and I may use the mobile version when I eventually get an iPhone type device. Imeem has a greater quantity of music, but I appreciate the simple web design of Pandora. Stripping away features and focusing on the core functionality appeals to me (unless I'm writing apparently...)

What I'd really like is a page as simple as Now Do This that allows me to multiple select from a list of emotions I'm experiencing or want to experience and I get a Pandora station displayed, allowing me to edit emotional state tags for songs. Eventually I'd allow an AI to visually read my facial expressions, consult my calendar, read my pulse, identify who else is in the room, tag songs via voice command, cull tags from the collective, and tell me "I chose this song because the rock structures lend familiarity, the electronica influences fuel a focus on the future, the subtle vocal harmonies lighten the mood, and the minor key tonality is different than the recently played songs" when I ask.

Similarly, I'd like to eat the foods that best compliment my body experience and needs. Ideally I'd like to eat a wide variety of fresh, in season, locally grown foods that fuel my exercise and mental activities. I'd love to carry around an iPhone type device that I can use to take pictures of food I'm eating, record and plan my exercise, keep updated on the latest nutritional science, get feedback about food's effect on me, analyse my excrement/urine, get updates from my scale, track the state of my digestion and the bioavailability of the previously ingested nutrients. Right now we all need to do this ourselves, but not nearly as optimally as possible. I want my Anthro-PC without the attitude, though it'd probably drive me crazy with the "beep: Now would be a good time to eat an apple and 3 oz. of almond butter" all the time.

Generally I want to offload information gathering to a transparent, connected, personalized "expert".

I guess I should begin to work on a dietary expert system in my spare time, if nothing else it'd give me a place to organize the dietary information I'm continually learning. Crazy spreadsheets here I come!