Sunday, May 28, 2017

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~

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