There appears to be only one solution to the world’s woes.
Mass Algorithmic Surveillance.
They might be invisible but they are now ruling out lives to such an extent that we cannot live without them.
They make us pay more than we should for everything in what’s called the free market which is in fact a capitalist program run by algorithms for profit.
How owns them?
Because the data they are trained can be biased and discriminatory there should be total transparency as to what, who and when they are used.
Is it the code writers, or the company that develops them are the owners?
If they are writing their own code the use of an algorithm is un- own-able, because they start life as abstract ideas which is un -patient able.
They are not legal persons and therefore have no ownership rights, anyone can create their own algorithm.
Only the people who designed, adapted, configured, chose and use the algorithm can be held responsible for their actions.
As more and more products become auto-generated evolutionary algorithms will undermine privacy ownership of almost every thing, as they bypass the traditional need for designer, inventor, author, artist.
However they provide competitive advantages. That’s why they need to be totally transparent.
Are you Flummoxed yet?
Some of the water you drank to day passed through the kidneys of Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, Socrates. The Air passed through Napoleon, Beethoven,Lincoln, Billy the Kid.
We do not simply live in this universe.
The universe lives in us.
When it comes to his new smart phone. Elton Musk needs to understand this.
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The airways of communication are full of NEXTUS when it comes to what AI is going to do to the world.
There is no need to look very far when it comes to technology.
The mobile phone did more to correct the inequalities of pricing in the marketplace than all the aid granted to countries over the last twenty years. They also reduced corruption, allowing assistance to be called whenever, and vastly increased our knowledge of each other.
However the risk of allowing self learning machines to coexist with humans vastly outweighs any benefit and is no longer the stuff of science fiction.
With our fibulas mines unable to conceive of a future withoutAI. We should be asking what the world is going to do with AI.
The problem is that we don’t quite know what intelligence is.
There is not yet a single definition of intelligence.
What are the ingredients for true independence intelligence?
You tell me.
We born without any form of intelligence to survive and must learn how to acquire knowledge in order to survive in the first place. If not acquired the -result is death.
Not so in the case of a non biological machines.
If we put a purpose into a machine we had better be clear( beyond any doubt ) what that purpose is and how it can be achieved.
As we don’t have the least inclination as to how any super intelligent machine will function.
Of course the big question is will they wipe humans off the face of the earth.
The answer is YES.
The conversation should be around how we going to control their usage, not how they are going to control us, the climate, influence us, or wipe us out.
If we can implant explosives is pagers surely it possible to implant a self destructed code in all non biological creatures.
We not talking here about a technology that can be regulated with laws, or UN resolutions as it has no human boundaries.
The recent example in the Lebanon should not just terrify the Lebanon but the whole world.
Power is no longer the ability to destroy by military power but the abilities to conquer by Artificial Intelligence technologies.
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In a world where we are supposed to able to communicate, we are so saturated with information and bombarded with advertising we are no longer able to distinguish what is false and what is true.
Truth is usually the opposite to a false statement. Another words in accord with reality or facts.
We have a thing called Social Media which is destroying the very thing it claims to be – Social.
Far from bringing people together it’s is driving them apart with artificial predictive data gathering turning us into products.
Consider the risks.
While world leaders sit around a table passing worthless resolutions.
Exploding pagers /mobile phones with fake news becoming a major propaganda tool to launch cyber attacks.
To contaminate the air or water with drones.
It’s now or never we hold the owners of Algorithms to total transparency and legal responsibility.
It’s now or never we stop all wars and concentrate our collective actions to stop climate change.
It’s now or never we start to legislate for a transfer into living alongside non biological life forms.
It’s now or never that we learn that time it’s self is not just a forwarding of now but encompassed the past and the future all together in space time.
It’s now or never we ensure that all AI recognise our collective human values.
It’s now or never we put genuine value on all life.
It’s now or never Democracy cleanse its self up with long term solutions to world hunger/ poverty/ insecurity/ inequality/ racism/ living wage/ sustainable.
It’s now or never.
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The obvious answer to this question is – FOR ALL INTENTIONAL PURPOSES WE ARE ALREADY FUCKED?
Why?
Because to change this view would require a collective vision with in the planet boundaries.
Because growth is more important than people’s lives.
Because it’s all down to making money.
It would require a global root change to the whole system of international trade, markets and making a profit for anything to change.
Because all food production is an industry that has spread toxic pesticides all over the planet to fuel the next pandemic.
Because we are now caught by the short and hairy’s by Algorithms, that are using our weaknesses against us.
Because none of this is science fiction any more. We no longer have a say in most things
Because we are rapidly becoming second rate citizens in a world run by non- biological machines.
Perhaps this is the final destination-and not heaven as some of us are lead to believe.
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Do we get our act together to operate on this planet or become obsolete ?
The answer to this question is rapidly approaching with Artificial Intelligence’s, being able to program themselves it will not be in the remotest possible sense be able to control itself without human intervention.
Eventually we will live our lives governed by classification data, with power shifting ( as it is already doing) to AI platforms.
Our healthcare/ location/ financial worth/ benefits/ beliefs/ skills/ life history on our wrists.
Where are we?
On any given day you can find somewhere in the world a conflict involving religion, however the wars of the future ( if fusion energy is not cracked) will be over energy, fought with atomistic weapons.
There will be no God on any given side.
This will happen as our lives become one long, endless, brutal Darwinian struggle.
Our horizons narrow, and our worlds shrink.
We become Myopic- Products.
AI is already siphoning wealth off for the few.
Economics have been failing for generations because it has put profit making before looking after the people.
Putting profits to the forefront of all decisions is sucking the life out of the environment- climate change.
There is no point to growing the GDP of a nation if the cost of living increases beyond being able to pay the bills. Leading as history has shown us on many occasions to FASCISM
How can this still be happening?
Because A1 is dummying us down to dumb hicks – whoops I should have said dummy like
Clickers.
So our elect leaders (who are voted into power by us ) are unable to offer a more compelling alternative to GDP. Ensnared in it by AI data, becoming the beneficiaries of a lack of knowledge of what it means to be human.
So go ahead and tell me how often has fasism’s arisen when people are happy.
There isn’t a single example.
What rights are we going to give non biological machines ? Have they a right to exist? How or who do we make responsible for their actions ?
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The questions raised here are no longer hypothetical.
They are self learning, have no beliefs, don’t suffer death, begin to demand unreasonable amounts of tribute, begin to develop their own ethics, are we dodies going to inflict generational slavery on all humans to come.
Is this the purpose of humanity?
The answer I would say to an AI is 2% no and 98% yes.
There is one thing for certain the future of AI and humanity are inextricably linked.
Artificial general intelligence is around the corner. This is a journey that is going to define our species.
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It comes into force on the 30:Sept :2020 whether you have read it, agreed with it-or not.
Seriously if this is transparency Joe soap and I must get an algorithm not just to read it but to have any chance of understand it.
If you ask me it is another example of dummying down to reshape reality.
Its an agreement not just about consuming content but providing data in order to make decisions in the future that is yet to come.
The future of the invisible hand making predictions.
The implications are staggering.
So ask your self why is here no option but to agree.
This isn’t just about selling you a service or product. It’s about analysing your thoughts in order to change your views.
Quantum computing is around the corner when it’s meet artificial intelligence it will be capable of mining and changing everything.
Calculating in second your thoughts, while questioning the very nature of your existence.
Imagine being able to visit your deceased loved one. The implications are mind boggling.
Long after you depart this world a quantum algorithm will represent a virtual digital version of you.
It will challenge every ethical measure we have, challenging what it is to be human in the first place.
Does an AI have a right to exist?
Our current laws/ regulations are worthless to answer this question.
Why?
Because the changes to come are going to require totally new beliefs concerning what a life is. .
To live as a human alongside a non biological life form raised many questions.
Will the AI need a MOT every year.
Will its owner need a license.
Will the owner need insurance.
Will there be powering stations to re-charge.
Will the an age limit on ownership.
Will there be national service for these machines to ensure their loyalty to the nation.
Will they be restricted from distributing information.
You would be mistaken to think that the above questions are academic as the future of personal robotics is yonks away. The transition will be so subtle we won’t see it happening.
With agreement like this one its time we woke up to algorithms that are beginning to make decisions without any human interaction or input.
If we don’t they will not be controlling your life but your digital life will be running and ruling your very existence.
How AI and humanity will coexist is another thing as it is going on impact everything everywhere.
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There is no d that our world had evolved to such an extent that it could not function without Artificial Intelligence.
However as AI continues to evolve there must be a balance between innovation and reliability.
We have with AI already created the biggest communication gap, in Social Media leaving people unable to talk with each other.
Algorithms are now integrated into every aspect of living a life.
No one is asking yet are the big Tech companies running Governments. It’s certainly not the other way around.
When it comes to Ai we are in fact enslaving the next generation to becoming products of algorithms.
They are in health care, finance, customer service, the legal profession, diagnostics, creative content, predications, but is the information real time information or out of date.
Fear is a well established force and up to now it is the main reason why Ai is not in control of our lives.
Its not possible to terrorise AI as it is not nor will it ever have a con
There is no ethical justification or concern left not to regulate Artificial Intelligence and pass laws to ensure transparency and accountability.
Most organisations rely on AI for tasks that require up to date and factual information.
Amazon is presently working on a AI that will comprehensive evaluate AI systems that could change the correlation of AI decisions with human judgment. Called RAGChecker it’s not yet available.
However when it comes to market it must be an open – source tool that can be integrated into existing ANS services.
So let’s start questioning AI.
Who is responsible for AI?
How did the AI make its decision?
Does it need access to intellectual property or other protected data?
What are the consequences?
What degree of autonomy should be given to AI?
What data was used to train the AI?
Does AI need access to private data that must be protected?
While some applications demand a higher level of transparency, trustworthiness than others all AI needs to be trusted.
We are captivated by the concept of AI – but it has a long way to go before it becomes trustworthy enough to take on or replace human judgement- deepfake.
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You would think by now we would have figured it out that we have created fantastic amounts of waste and pollution to produce things that we don’t ( and often can’t) use again.
Ecosystem survive and are sustainable because they circulate and re-use energy and materials.
However modern industry which is now using technologies requiring vast amounts of energy continues to rely mostly on the one-way street of resource extraction and depletion.
This combination obviously can’t continue indefinitely. In the face of the staggering amount of power we are allowing massive data storage for algorithms, businesses and governments must learn from ecosystems the concept of up- cycling.
Take the humble honey bee for example.
Time had forgotten the power of the honey Bee.
The honey bee most definitely had what archaeologists call magico – religious significance for many ancient civilisations.
Honey is referred to in most religions books. Indeed it was prescribed as a medicine back in the days of Egyptian, Alexander the Great, Sparta, King Heron, Neto’s wife. Aristotle, the Roman Empire, the Chinese civilisation. India , the Americas , the Aztecs, the Dark Ages, in fact without the honey bee we would not exist.
Honey now seems with the arrival of antibiotics to be relegated to something we put on toast. When it was an antibiotic away back in 1892 it was not taken for granted.
To day New Zealand has a particular variety of honey that kills bacteria the sort bacteria that causes so much woe. But for some reason the country does not promote its production.
The Pohutukawa tree or Christmas Tree quintessential Kiwi produces a honey
The Manuka a bushy tree produces a honey called tea – tree honey .
On the other hand if we allow technology to develop exclusively with in the capitalist world we will have a world more divided with inequalities at its heart and than ever before,
If we are lucky we will have a digital global order.
There is no pause button on these technologies it’s now or never that we harness them to sustainably human values.
There is no simple way back, if there is indeed any way at all .
The Beady eye has for some considerable time been warning if we don’t have totally transparent and accountability we will just become products.
It is beyond comprehension that we have become so docile in giving up information for these self learning algorithms to plunder the the world for short term profit it seems we don’t give a fuck about the future of the planet.
To put this in perspective just take a moment to look at the planet that you’re most likely to live the rest of your life on.
Just under 5 billion years old. Hanging in space, surrounded by satellites spinning at 1600 km, travelling at 107,000km around the sun, it has and is presently supported billions of us, on smartphones, plus all known species that ever existed.
In return we its guard have plundered its finite resources, polluted its atmosphere, seas and rivers and lakes, destroyed its natural forests, covered it in billions of tons of concrete, tarmac, all for short term profit.
In response we are just beginning to reap the rewards of Climate Change, that no tech is going to stop.
Resulting in mass migration, inevitable wars, social upheavals etc you would think that we by now understand what is at stake.
For example: This year thousands have braved crossing the Darien gap in Panama to get to the USA, not to mention the Mediterranean , or the English Channel.
Look at Bangladesh under water. The question becomes why do we do nothing? This is a war on every sense of the word and we must win it.
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Just beyond the world that exists within our heads is the world is the world that exists between us: Earth’s eight billion inhabitants.
We behave through complex biological.
Subtracting people from the environment changes how we behave across a huge variety of situations.
War has run almost through out all of human history, taking many forms.
From besieged towns surrounded by moats/fortifications to the grabbing of territory by emperors playing with their new toys. It’s no exaggeration to say that that our lives have been greatly influenced by them.
With no end to the current conflicts on the globe they’ll continue to do so.
However the stakes these days are higher than past wars.
With nuclear weapons terrifying high, with a rogue AI terrorists ( with an unlimited menu of methods and targets, ) nuclear supremacy will be worthless.
I am not talking here about drones with FRV technology that are already in use by Hamas and in the current war between Russia and Ukraine. I am talking about Cyber terrorism ( ie politically motivated use of computers and information technology to cause disruption and fear in society, by targeting almost anyone or anything.
Cyberspace one of the most crucial aspects of modern life, connecting everyone and everything.
Just like climate change it is the specter of catastrophe no matter how remote that will propel it safety to the forefront of public policy. However people are unwilling to spend a lot of money to avert a future problem especially when it’s like-lihood of it effecting their lives is so uncertain.
With Climate Change the worst possibility is downright biblical, with Cyberspace the wars are still in science fiction.
The problem with being human is that we are stuck in our own heads. We don’t have enough perspectives when making many life decisions. Unfortunately we respond to these dangers with the same brain as our ancestors had some 60,000 to 80,000 years ago.
The difference is that they had a vested interests in each other, we don’t, as social media has shifted the balance of power from the hands of the few to the masses.
Almost all of the world is using Social Media platforms, which are becoming more powerful to the detriment of individuality.
The problem with AGI is that it will not be surveillance or the degradation of human skills, but rather an Arms race in the military domain, that is going to lead to the depletion of resources without any perspective from a moral or ethical alignment to any human values.
In the future most warfare will be digital.
Time will tell.
One nation has no right to tell another what to do.
However autonomous warfare, which we are just witnessing the beginnings of will not require specific instructions from humans.
A self driven hacked car could start the next war.
It’s fair to say that up to now our lives are greatly influenced by natal roulette. To great extent this no longer applies.
Uncontrollably AIG will de-warf any nuclear deterrence, as it could introduce a virus that could wipe us from the planet.
Within its inverted logic it could kill billions without consulting anyone.
We have to decide what we want now.
Whether we want to impose restrictions/ regulations/ or restraints, call it what you like on the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence’s, as the AI tools to come will not be anonymous tools by default.
Nothing happens in a vacuum. World War One did not start in a vacuum, nor did World War Two start in a vacuum. They were the result of an area of a statues quo that collapsed.
AI bots should not have freedom of speech.
Non human entities are flooding Social Media Platforms in the form of Algorithms with their own goals of seeking profits above any thing else.
AI that is defying its own goals should be banned.
When are we going to wake up to the facts that in the near future anyone with open AGI could hold the whole world to ransom.
Lack of trust transparency to do no harm – against Benefit. Will shape the future.
Human intelligence has carried our species through countless challenges. Adapting to the implications of replicating it might be one of the biggest ones.
There is no second chance when it comes to AI, only the improbable is impotent,
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When it comes to the moral question, humanity has historically failed the test over and over, again and again and will continue to do so till we are all blue in the face with verbal diarrhoea as to how we might change the situation from inequality to equal opportunity for all.
The greatest innovations are yet to come as both AIG or ASI is as yet a hypothetical form of AI .
Instead of asking what we evolved from we must start asking and answering what we are evolving towards.
AGI may or may not come to our rescue in answering this question. However it is farcical to think that we will be able to contribute to control AIG once it happens.
How will the human life value in relation to a sentient biological machine for the Capitalist economy?
Will AGI need anything from us to begin with?
How will it judge procreation, suffering, and existence?
It will have non of these things, so it will make no difference unless it’s in its own interest to do so.
The reality will not be a red eye robot that wants to kill us, but a form of Artificial Intelligence that begins to write its own codes in order to reorganise societies and all our places within them, in ways we can’t imagine.
Algorithms will run and rule the world, along with the future exploration of Space. It won’t be humans unless we have implants to compensate our biological weakness.
With the real question becoming – will AIG be the final straw to what’s called freedom, transcending religious beliefs. While producing a new type of tyrannical tyranny of empty, meaningless, variety, a never ending stream of unnecessary options, arming us with weapons so devastating that we could wipe ourselves out.
Basically the biological race will be over, replaced by the best survival information processing AIG.
Resulting in biological Algorithms ie Us – versus AIG algorithms war-fair.
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We are a self- hating, self-destructive species which is about to handover the evolutionary buttons to machines that could whether by accident or design wipe us all out.
The only way of stopping such an event is to enshrine now the virtues of liberty, privacy, dignity, not just in new AI regulations but also in Social Media, business models and institutions.
To have any chance we must clean up Social Media by imposing large fines on platforms that post discriminatory content, racism, violence related rhetoric, propaganda, pornographers content. Ban all non – sustainable advertising, all non ethical non verifiable content, all fake surveys, all exploitation for profit, returning Social Media to its Name.
We know nothing about the ethic of AIG, nor will we ever know other than the biases it has been exposed to. But rest assured in the long run it will remove what we call individualism or individuality, expanding all to perceivable reality.
We must demand transparency and accountability. There is no more room for batting around the edges. We must bring AI into alignment with something better than just being human, where people are not just treated as products but always as ends.
The Beady Eye is here in New Zealand visiting his eight week old grandson who arrived into the world five weeks premature and would not be with us to day without advancing technology.
Maybe someday we get to be more than human. We presently have no clue to what consciousness is, but it will become an entanglement of the quantum of existence in one form or another.
However we will still need our live to mean something even if we integrate or transcend the evolutionary bridge, into the cosmic horizons with eternal memories and hope for a better future.
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It’s hard to feel for future people. We are bad enough at feeling for our future selves.
Even if we last just 1 million years, as long as the average mammal – and even if the global population fell to 1 billion people – then there would be 9.1 trillion people in the future.
Concern for future generations is common sense across diverse intellectual traditions. When we dispose of radioactive waste, we don’t say, “Who cares if this poisons people centuries from now?
Similarly, few of us who care about climate change or pollution do so solely for the sake of people alive today.
Is any of this true?
Current global rates of consumption require the resources of about 1.6 earths. At this rate, we risk exhausting our planet’s life support systems that provide us with fresh water, nutritious food and clean air.
What 2050 could look like if we don’t do anything about climate change? This doesn’t need an answer.
That is a future unwritten. It’s also worth noting that, in fact, it is entirely up to us whether these hypothetical future beings ever actually come into existence.
So what do we owe the generations to come?
You might answer that since we don’t even owe to them to bring them into existence in the first place, we can’t possibly owe them anything all. Then wouldn’t the people of the future be within their rights to look back at us and ask, ‘Given that you despoiled our planet, why did you even bother bringing us into existence?
Maybe we might actually have an obligation not to bring future people into existence, at least if we’re going to mess things up enough to make their hypothetical lives unbearable.
That would imply that future people count more than us. And who thinks that? Certainly not me. I’m not even sure they count the same as us. That leaves us with only one option. I hate to say it, but future people surely count less than we do—at least a little less.
“What, I am trying to get you to see, is that we have an absolute duty to future generations not to ruin their future planet.”
Think of today’s teeming masses, displaced by violence and climate change, wandering the world in search for a safe harbour.
In comparison to all that present day concrete suffering, the hypothetical suffering of hypothetical future people seems sort of distant and abstract.
I should say that I am actually all for combating climate change. And I am all for weighing both the interests of present people and the interests of future people in the calculus of what is to be done about it. I just don’t think it’s obvious how much weight we should give to the wellbeing of hypothetical future people as opposed to our own.
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Now more than ever, the world needs young people to step up to address the many other challenges ahead of us.
It is crucial to engage young people in decision-making – but in parallel – it’s also important for young people to think differently about how they want to engage.
They cannot vote or lobby or run for public office, so politicians have scant incentive to think about them. They can’t bargain or trade with us, so they have little representation in the market, And they can’t make their views heard directly: they can’t tweet, or write articles in newspapers, or march in the streets. They are utterly disenfranchised.
We make laws that govern them, build infrastructure for them and take out loans for them to pay back.
So what happens when we consider future generations while we make decisions today?
Is it really as bad as all that?
Our situation can be summed up as follows:
While facing an extinction event, instead of working toward reversing the march toward climate disaster, in the name of security we are investing in killing each other.
What will it take to unleash the energy and passion of youth leaders and activists to dismantle inequitable systems and work together to build an more inclusive future?
Social media will likely play a role in that revolution—if it doesn’t sink our kids with anxiety and depression first.
Asked young people what changes they want for the future.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE RED LINES.
Incentivize sustainable consumption and penalize production that’s not.
All stakeholders to take urgent action to safeguard nature and future food production.
Sanctions against institutions that resort to internet blackouts to supress citizen freedoms.
Tech companies to be transparent about misinformation and its spread on their platforms.
Governments to implement policies to protect individual citizens against harmful content.
Capacity-building programmes and education to help citizens better identify fake news.
Strengthened laws against media monopolies to protect democratic freedoms.
A Global Convention for Cybersecurity to uphold the integrity of political systems.
A global wealth tax on assets worth more than US$ 50 million to fight growing inequality.
Universities to end the exorbitant tuition fees that stifle social mobility.
Governments to guarantee universal access to mental health services.
Governments to invest in communities most at risk from climate change.
Financial institutions to stop bankrolling companies initiating fossil fuel exploration.
Companies to significantly reduce the GHG emissions of their operations and supply chains to help keep global heating within 1.5°C.
Governments to implement fit-for-purpose policies and regulations on big tech.
Companies to integrate technology ethics into the design of their products and services.
Governments to prioritize the immediate needs of healthcare workers and their families.
Companies to drive digitalization in healthcare services to improve patient care.
Governments to end qualified immunity in law enforcement for police officers.
Increased action against gun violence.
Two critical questions guided these dialogues:
What are the barriers that have hindered progress?
And, what key values, principles and practices will enable us to foster long-lasting systemic impact for the next decade?
As many around the world push for the creation of a more just, equitable and sustainable future we must remember that technology is one of the greatest tools for achieving these goals, but without ethical considerations at the fore… this will likely only perpetuate the very inequalities that we hope to address.
Every generation of teens is shaped by the social, political, and economic events of the day and how fast teens grow up depends on their perceptions of their environment.
For example their ubiquitous use of the iPhone, their valuing of individualism, their economic context of income inequality, their inclusiveness, and more.
Social media is creating an “epidemic of anguish.
We can’t market technologies that capture dopamine, hijack attention, and tether people to a screen, and then wonder why they are lonely and hurting. It makes humanity look like an “imprudent teenager”, with many years ahead, but more power than wisdom.
Fortunately, there are concrete things humanity to day can do.
The field of sustainability is evolving.
For example, if there is any moral weight on future people, then many common societal goals (like faster economic growth) are vastly less important than reducing risks of extinction (like nuclear non-proliferation).
The entire value chain needs to be sustainable, from raw material sourcing to the manufacturing and usage of the products.
Transparency, accountability, trust and a focus on stakeholder capitalism will be key to meeting this generation’s ambitions and expectations. Doing so would help save the lives of people alive today, reduce the risk of technological stagnation and protect humanity’s future.
Our biases toward present, local problems are strong, so connecting emotionally with the ideas can be hard. It’s humbling and inspiring to see the role we can play in protecting the future. We can enjoy life now and safeguard the future for our great grandchildren.
If we name each generation based on the technological conditions it experienced, generations may soon encompass only a few years apiece. Slicing the population into ever-narrower generations, each defined by its very specific relationship to technology, is fundamental to how we think about the relationship between age, culture, and technology.
They include the digital natives, the net generation, the Google generation or the millennials.
All of these terms are being used to highlight the significance and importance of new technologies within the lives of young people. But generation gaps did not begin with the invention of the microchip. What’s new is the fine-slicing of generational divides, the centrality of technology to defining each successive generation.
If the role of technology in shaping an emergent generational consciousness it seems obvious, to imagine a return to the days when sociological generations spanned multiple decades is over. If you believe that technological conditions profoundly shape the life experience and perspectives of each successive generation, then those generations will only get narrower. If we name each generation based on the specific technological conditions it experienced during childhood or adolescence, we may soon be dealing with generations that encompass only a few years apiece.
At that point, the very idea of “generations” will cease to have much utility for social scientists, since it will be very hard to analyse attitudinal or behavioural differences between generations that are just a few years part.
The problem is that all will come at a price. That price is and will be.
The loss of intentional and thoughtful communication techniques to preserve meaningful connections in a society that is becoming more and more reliant on technology.
Be it the metaverse, smart glasses or large language models, the world as we know it may never be quite as we first imagined it, merging into physical and digital spaces.
While the internet offers unparalleled convenience and connectivity, it is essential to recognize its limitations in reproducing the depth of personal interaction found in face-to-face encounters.
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Technology will be a vital tool for creating a cleaner, safer and more inclusive world, but what changes can we expect to see?
5G will create a lot of new use cases including drone management, robotic surgery and autonomous vehicles. Large language models will become a given because they lower the cost of artificial intelligence (AI)
Quantum computing merges with classical computing.
Our grandchildren will live in a very different world thanks to the democratization of products and services that are currently only available to the elite or wealthy,
Holographic image in front of you, seen through smart glasses will be your algorithmic world.
No matter what future we leave behind life my advice is life is beautiful-celebrate -celebrate – never give up.
If all of this is hurting your head, let’s just get back to the basics: if there is a secret to life, it might all be down to what we do, not what we are.
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