The real future is multiple choices

I saw my image in the mirror on the way to get the muffin, and I remembered that people sometimes mentioned (my) “KC Cole” face; for some reason, it made them laugh. I want to know what kind of category it fits. Do I even want to know?

Coming now The really creepy part. When I first started writing “Realistic future,” I suddenly thought of the world depicted in Tmatrix It’s too real. I dare not say that because I think people will think of me as a typical technically challenged old man.

But it turned out that I have many respected (and young) companies. It’s hardly Luddites. Those who push us to take red pills these days are mostly visionaries like Lanier.Ten years ago, he wrote a classic You are not a gadget; More and more, he argued that you are. Specifically, you (we) are becoming “computer peripherals connected to the great computing cloud.”

Kate Crawford of Microsoft, in Artificial Intelligence Atlas, Describes the danger of squeezing our complex and ever-changing personal and social realities into “representations of the world made only by machines.” Artificial intelligence forces “unsystematized systemization”, reduces depth, eliminates beautiful notes, and flattens the experience with us.

Lanier and Co. believes that if everyone freely shares information, the world will be a better place; instead, he describes it as a place where we have been monitored, whether we want it or not, we are handing over data. (I want to know if the Amazon driver outside is being watched by a version of Smith-it’s better to keep him in line. We all know the answer.)

The massive storage of data scraped from the Internet—our faces, habits, health, finances, children, lovers, favorite actors, vacations, conversations with your Roomba—turn to mainframe computers and these computers will adjust you What you see in order to make you addicted and sell you things. This is a one-way street. We are transparent to large servers, but they are opaque to us. Lanier wrote that remote companies use this data to change our lives “in unfathomable ways.” “If other people’s cloud algorithms come to different conclusions about your potential as a lender, date or employee, you will never really know what will happen.”

The movie version of the matrix gets fuel from the human body’s battery. The huge network of machines that we ironically call the “cloud” also feeds on humans: those who mine rare minerals, assemble equipment, drive trucks, load parcels, translate text, mark and evaluate objects and faces (usually wrong; especially Yes if you are female, dark-skinned or otherwise).

Thousands of people are needed to maintain the illusion of fluffy, weightless automation. For these tasks, humans are cheaper than robots.

Trying to accept this underground reality is as shocking as Neo sees a large number of baby-powered fuel cells for the first time. No one wants to know the costs: the calculated huge carbon footprint, the depletion of community water and electricity supplies, the reliance on taxpayer-funded infrastructure, sewers, natural gas pipelines, fiber optics, etc. These large servers are hidden in remote environments for a reason.