I remember the good ole' days when we had the simplistic phones that you flip open, pull the antenna with your teeth, and make a quick call. Now phones not only make calling easy, they are intelligent devices. What a super-computer a size of a house could do ten years ago, a 5-inch smartphone today can do twice as fast. Technology has expanded at an unprecedented pace, and we take this advancement for granted. I can not imagine anyone in the new millennium that can survive a week without their smartphone. We use it for school, work, sleep, exercise, even the little reminder to call your mom you forgot about during the semester. Apple began their development of the iPhone in 2008. The model 3G at the time had the most sophisticated technology shoved in a touchscreen smartphone. A phone that could only run one app at a time, and apps had to be kept simple, so the phone would not freeze and crash. The camera only could produce 2-megapixel pictures. What seemed to be revolutionary in 2008, would be garbage by today's standards. The new iPhone X comes fully loaded. This phone itself carries 256 gigabits standard, along with an incredible processor that can run multiple, incredible applications at one time. Can produce quality photos six times better than the iPhone 3G. Also provides facial recognition and Siri, a functional intelligent program that acts as a personal assistant.
These past nine years has been a crazy show, and this was just an example of what Apple has done. We watched a television series in class called "Black Mirror: Be Right Back." The episode portrays the tragic loss of Martha's love Ash. Desperate and lost, she eventually turns to a friend's idea of bringing "himself" back through an intelligent device. She then goes full force and ordered a human replica of Ash, Ash 2 as we call it in class. Ash 2 is so real it was "uncanny" for her, and even at the end of the episode, she seemed unsatisfied with Ash 2. Ash 2 lacked just a few aspects and qualities of her real love Ash, and in which will never fill the hole that was lost when Ash passed. The episode opened my eyes to the fact that this technological achievement is within reach. That I may see my grandchildren as artificial intelligent beings. This sparks the idea of how will this affect our lives and how can we transition these beings into our society. As we saw from Martha, it is not an easy transition. Just like the iPhone, it only takes a few years to turn a basic smartphone and soon develop it into an intelligent device that becomes a necessity in society. We need to get on the ball to develop the framework for the future of both humans and artificial beings, and be ready for the show to begin.
I remember the good ole' days when we had the simplistic phones that you flip open, pull the antenna with your teeth, and make a quick call. Now phones not only make calling easy, they are intelligent devices. What a super-computer a size of a house could do ten years ago, a 5-inch smartphone today can do twice as fast. Technology has expanded at an unprecedented pace, and we take this advancement for granted. I can not imagine anyone in the new millennium that can survive a week without their smartphone. We use it for school, work, sleep, exercise, even the little reminder to call your mom you forgot about during the semester. Apple began their development of the iPhone in 2008. The model 3G at the time had the most sophisticated technology shoved in a touchscreen smartphone. A phone that could only run one app at a time, and apps had to be kept simple, so the phone would not freeze and crash. The camera only could produce 2-megapixel pictures. What seemed to be revolutionary in 2008, would be garbage by today's standards. The new iPhone X comes fully loaded. This phone itself carries 256 gigabits standard, along with an incredible processor that can run multiple, incredible applications at one time. Can produce quality photos six times better than the iPhone 3G. Also provides facial recognition and Siri, a functional intelligent program that acts as a personal assistant.
These past nine years has been a crazy show, and this was just an example of what Apple has done. We watched a television series in class called "Black Mirror: Be Right Back." The episode portrays the tragic loss of Martha's love Ash. Desperate and lost, she eventually turns to a friend's idea of bringing "himself" back through an intelligent device. She then goes full force and ordered a human replica of Ash, Ash 2 as we call it in class. Ash 2 is so real it was "uncanny" for her, and even at the end of the episode, she seemed unsatisfied with Ash 2. Ash 2 lacked just a few aspects and qualities of her real love Ash, and in which will never fill the hole that was lost when Ash passed. The episode opened my eyes to the fact that this technological achievement is within reach. That I may see my grandchildren as artificial intelligent beings. This sparks the idea of how will this affect our lives and how can we transition these beings into our society. As we saw from Martha, it is not an easy transition. Just like the iPhone, it only takes a few years to turn a basic smartphone and soon develop it into an intelligent device that becomes a necessity in society. We need to get on the ball to develop the framework for the future of both humans and artificial beings, and be ready for the show to begin.
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I think you make an interesting start on the topic of just how disarming technologies can be for us, and just how much technological innovation has accelerated within the past decade alone.
I wonder if we will share our grandparents confusion and disgruntled outlook of the technologies of our own grandchildren, will they truly be as vast in use and understanding?
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