I agree. You think cell phones interfer with driving just wait for smart glasses. They should develop a way around that. Perhaps cut service to smart glasses while driving.
Trading information by just touching phones!!!!
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I agree. You think cell phones interfer with driving just wait for smart glasses. They should develop a way around that. Perhaps cut service to smart glasses while driving.
Cars that drive themselves flawlessly will be the norm by then.
I doubt it. Smart glasses are no more than 5 years away. Car companies expect robot cars to start entering the mainstream within 20 years. I'm not sure smart glasses are actually more dangerous than cell phones. You can text, get directions, talk, whatever, totally hands free. The information is displayed a bit to the side, but focused within your field of view. However, they would have to implement some type of mandatory "driver mode" that limits what you can do while you're driving.
TheSilencer1313
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Especially socially.
Can you imagine how much fatter our society could become with this type of technology becoming mainstream?
Not to mention further radiological impacts on our brains and bodies.
Higher cancer rates, increased depression, increased heart disease, ect.... ect.
HipHopAnonymous
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I just want the video of the blonde mom in the commercial
Our points of view are way too different to debate the cons and pros of such transformation in a meaningful way. I am simply stating how technology is likely to evolve in the near future.
TheSilencer1313
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Yeah makes sense, although I wouldn't mind seeing what you think the pros and cons might be.
You are correct about technology though.
I think obesity and other problems caused by sedentary lifestyles are likely to increase in the near future regardless of how technology evolves. They are simply a result of material abundance and the elimination of most evolutionary stresses through the use of technology. I don't think that's bad. I think that every species attempts to use all the tools at its disposal to minimize energy expenditures and maximize survival rate. That is the way of nature, and we simply happened to be the best at it. I am bothered by Luddite thinking for that reason. I am similarly bothered by people who mock "first world problems" as if the developed world must apologize for being successful. In either case, there is nothing to apologize for. The West, along with the rest of humanity has accomplished so much! A lot of that was due to our propensity for creating more and more sophisticated tools to enable us to do more and more things. So it is about problem solving, but it's not just that. It is about enabling us to do more.
I therefore support all enabling and disrupting technologies. I ****ing CRAVE change. I wouldn't even mind losing my job to a robot.
Consequently, I want computation to spread. I love smartphones, and what they allow me to do. Connect with people, navigate, access information wherever I am, and so on. But it's never enough. I want to put on a pair of glasses, and navigate the world in real time, without moving an inch. I want my brain rewired to have access to any piece of information at the moment I need it. I don't want to look at a watch to know the time. I just want to know it, automatically. I don't want to read about WWII, I simply want to know all about it at a moments notice.
And can you imagine the upheaval that would cause? You probably worry about government surveillance now. I want nano-cameras to fill the air like particles of dust. It would destroy privacy, and I'm a very private person. But **** it. Force me to change and adapt. Give me the ability to communicate with thought, even if it means someone will hack it to access my brain without my permission. Allow me to change my physiology so that I can float naked in the vacuum of space. People wonder what it means to be human. Well, I'd love to find out.
Which brings me to my point. If long range communications limit the need to move, and creates obesity, cancer, and other problems, then the solution is not to limit that ability, but to find ways to combat those problems. Discover a way to keep me in the best possible shape without having to work out. After all, the biology that controls how we gain weight and how we lose it is no longer relevant. Similarly, find better cures for cancer and other diseases. Don't tell me the less we know the more we are!
Listen, I'm not a religious man. I am pretty confident all of the world's religions are made up. But I understand why people make them up. There is no purpose to life. There is no meaning to existence. However, it is the fact of our existence as social inquisitive creatures that we require those things for our lives to have happiness and fulfillment. And since I know all purposes and meanings are man-made, that is the one I'm making up. I don't want humanity simply to survive. And I don't think there's any ultimate destiny as described by any religion. So the best destiny to create is the one of tools and knowledge. To grow in power, ability, and influence. And to use all of it to create the best possible existence we can.
And that's the most religious post you'll ever see me make.
