guardians of the galaxy vol.2

funny with the good message...

ego may cause u to think u are above everyone else, and may make u think u are meant for a higher purpose in life

in pursuit of the "higher purpose", u may destroy everything - lives of the people around u...

ego may make you feel immortal... because when u achieve your "higher purpose", u will be everything

but we are not immortal

when u are alive, in pursuit of the higher purpose, would u not see what u have right now, right in front of u?

if u are like everybody else, is that so bad?

when u are alive, perhaps it would not hurt to imagine your death... what u do in life, determines if u get a ravagers funeral~

How will it be?

50 years from now... how will it be?

driverless flying cars powered by a battery which does not need recharging... ever? where we work while commuting to work or will we need to work? perhaps there will be an elite non working class and the poor who would be controlled by the working class and every year, one of them from each area will be selected to participate in games to entertain the elite?

since it is driverless, we no longer have car insurance policies? population will increase by the number of people who would have died in car accidents?

since cars are flying, we no longer require roads? perhaps it is levitating on magnetic strips? perhaps there will be invisible air roads which the cars are able to detect?

renewable or nuclear energy means no more petrol... if it is nuclear energy, would that mean more or less pollution?

the mobile phones would serve (actually... already is serving) as a phone, watch, camera, calendar, PDA, e-books, tv, journal, meeting place, translator, data storage, banks (will there be money?), credit cards, debit cards, calculator, loyalty programs (if there is still such a thing as businesses), financial tracking, shopping tool, radio, fitness tracking, a tool that enables a modern barter system perhaps?

no more malls, no retail, no call centers - everything is self service, through the phone

the mobile phone will track your health status and your insurance premium will be adjusted accordingly. your grocery purchases would be adjusted automatically to correct any imbalance... perhaps food will be a pill (that would not be good!)... emergencies will be attended to immediately by flying emergency centers...

humans might even be in pods... living life through their "avatars" - which means we might actually be living in virtual worlds (hollywood is good) - omg.... matrix is real! perhaps we would have 2 groups of people... people who embrace this form of living and people who will be the "hippies" of the future, the ones living off the grid, without robots and other advance technologies...

perhaps robots will be the ones producing everything that is necessary. we need not work! then will money be necessary? perhaps that is no longer a measure of wealth in time to come? we will no longer have various companies trying to hard to earn "money", there will no longer be the chase for more of everything, chase for more sales, more unnecessary demand created because of that very chase... produce and only consume what is necessary? maybe slow down on consumption? but if money is no longer the medium of exchange as we all have "enough"... then what will be scarce? time? another hollywood movie!! in time!

would we run out of food? air? back to basics, when the other material items don't matter anymore?

4 June 2017
police force will be replaced by robots with AI and facial recognition capabilities... fitted with cameras to broadcast crime in progress... emotion detectors, able to detect and assess gestures and body language and able to speak many different languages!

10 June 2018
just went through hong kong immigration...passport scanned, facial recognition worked. there goes employees of the immigration department...also saw on fb... Google duplex... amazing! artificial intelligence making calls to make appointments. there goes secretaries and personal assistants and call centers...

17 April 2022

never had i imagine that illustrators would be replaced by AI! NFTs... i still don't quite grasp this, but artificial intelligence can create NFTs using text-to-image AI software and the NFTs can talk!! oh wow, describe an image and the very intelligent software will create a talking illustration that will appeal to you! *mindblown

and oh, we won't only be sharing cars (uber/ grab) and homes (airbnb). we will be sharing clothes too!

p/s, all these are combination of the imagination of many many brilliant minds... so creative! i shall add to this post as i read new articles~

gen X.75

my pet topic at the moment... how the robots are taking over~ 

it all started when i read that i am the generation that may be caught by surprise - like a deer in the headlights - by how the robots are taking over... 

i am the generation that still played in the gardens - a game of catch, skipping, and "game and watch"... we watched the same cartoons as the kids in the entire neighbourhood as there there was no astro or dvd or streaming...

i am the generation studying with books and floppy discs, moving on to smaller square disks (i forgot what those are called), finally to usb drives...

i am the generation who did not have mobile phones when we were in school and for me, till i have my first job! we had big phones, flip phones, small phones and now we are back to big phones...

then came emails, icq, irc, internet and google

and maybe it is not all of a sudden... but all of a sudden, we have uber or grab and taxi drivers are jobless! phones are killing cameras, everybody is a "professional" photographer, online shopping is killing retail shops and malls, junior lawyers will be replaced by artificial intelligence, drivers are no longer needed in the mines as we have driverless trucks - no rest, no holidays, no tantrums...

i am the generation who might be replaced right before i am ready to retire, and with advancements in medical science and technology, i am the generation with extended lifespan...

eating alone

since taking up a sales job, i have gotten accustomed to eating alone. i enjoy it, as a matter of fact! i love people watching :)

so, there i was, having roast chicken rice, all by myself... watching the world go by... then i thought - it's smack in the middle of dinner time... what if somebody i know comes into the shop and sees me eating along? all of a sudden eating alone doesn't seem so fun!

what changed? i love eating alone at home, plopped in front of the tv, pigging out on whatever i fancy that day. i love eating alone when i am travelling for work, watching the world happen all around me... why then, would this thought pop out of nowhere?

i was in subang - where i grew up, attended school, where i am most likely to bump into a peer...

omg~ i was concerned about being perceived as sad! i have to slap myself... since when did i subscribed to other people's definition of success or happiness?

and how would anybody know if somebody who is eating with a big group of people is happier than somebody who is eating alone - being alone when one is alone is far far better than being alone when one is a part of a big party!

the family of husband, wife, baby and father (i think) who was eating at the table next to mine did not look too happy to be dining as a family...

the bf-gf/ husband-wife eating in the table in front of me was definitely more engrossed with their samsungs than with each other...

what if i bump into a peer who appears to be having a happy family, doing great work and managing finances superbly?? i shall be happy for the person :)  and not think that other people spend their precious time speculating about my life - afterall, most times we think people have opinion of us, when in fact, they don't give a ****

and so what if they actually do speculate about my life? and so what if they think i am sad coz i was eating alone?

i shall not give a ****

but according to AS - perception is reality...

the again, someone far wiser said - if you don't like me or what i do or how i live my life, it is mind over matter - i don't mind, and you don't matter :)

p/s, i didn't bump into anybody~