There are always two sides to technology and of course the tech companies market good side and don't acknowledge the equally potent negative side.
I was at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year in the blockchain conference session. An incredible company called Hanson Robotics presented their humanoid that looked like a real woman's head and she blinked, nodded and conversed used conversational AI. It was incredible. Dr. Hanson at one point said to imagine all of the incredible things that would be possible for human good. I turned to the people around me and panned: imagine what the evil people of this world could use it for...
Yeah, we seem to be only looking at the utopian good side of tech advancement and ignoring the downsides that can arise... Sex robots are all the rage now... lonely humans can't fix their issues together, so isolate more into sex robots for companionship they lack... sad.
@krnel - I went to Tokyo ... and boy, talk about human emotion disappearing out there. I guess it's happening worldwide, but I found it frighteningly accepted more so in that city.
That's one of saddest new lows I've heard about but certainly a reflection of social decay around the world. I'm assuming some of this has occurred because of video games, but I could be wrong...
Yeah probably a drive to do that for gaming purposes, AR, VR, etc. Just move things with your mind, why bother with a controller. Big business opportunity...
One day we will just lay all day with AR goggles on and be served our food and drink and watch robots play our video games for us. We are moving toward a very scary and lazy world, at least in the developed world.
That CES conference seems cool. They hold in Vegas once a year right?
Yes, every January. Well over 200,000 attend and it's a bit crazy. There are the conference session and then the actual company booths. I walked like 10 miles the first day of visiting booths this year.
I experienced two interesting things this year outside of the blockchain conference session. I was visiting a technology booth and all of a sudden there was a small mob of people walking down the aisle towards me and a guy with a badge that said Stevie Wonder. I poked the guy next to and said: Is that really Stevie Wonder? He said yes. I could figure out why he would go to the booths when he could see the technology, but it was interesting.
I also me the CTO of Homeland Security and talked with him for a minute about a blockchain crypto I have that is working on contracts to support the DHS drone program security.
A brain interface makes things really convenient, but can also really mess up ppl's psychology.