Don't you always get the impression that civilization changes aren't going in the right direction? That modern solutions, conveniences are starting to weigh on us and even endanger us? I see it more clearly, I feel more and more. It is not necessarily a substance of age erstwhile a man is already drawn to a blanket, a book and peace, and all that fresh is not well associated. You stand on this swing between the desire to halt youth, to be cool, and to mumble through squeezed teeth: in my day it was better! It's beautiful fast to see if it's a bit bit of a bite, if there's anything going on. Just talk to the young and ask them if they like this modern planet 100%. And from my micro-studies, it turns out that someone/something is cooking us up, like unconscious frogs, getting utilized to things we don't want to live without anymore, or we can't, due to the fact that alternatives are gone. And the young see it, too, and they don't mind. Let me give you any examples.
First 1 on the edge: AI and fake videos and photos. I thought I was specified a smart weasel, and I easy separate the icing pathetic videos generated by artificial intelligence. And yet I fell for it. It's like a video made with a camera at the entrance to a wooden house. An avalanche descends from above, a deer enters the porch with a young goat. They saved themselves in the last second. Wow, this is so cool! But on the same day, the service rolls show me the same veranda, this time it is simply a repugium for tiger and tiger. What a coincidence! And a minute later, another avalanche comes down, identical to the 2 erstwhile ones, and this time the cottage saves the life of destiny with a tiny grouchlaczka. Good thing the deer and tiger are gone, due to the fact that there'd be a hell of a mess! Shit!
I mean, it's all started this year. And I don't trust anything I see online anymore. I look at all beautiful image suspiciously, all interesting video.
Is this truly what we want to do so that we can't trust the vote sent to us by the app, or even the movie where our own daughter will ask us to send a 100 dollars? Are you certain it's her? Or did individual impersonate her and usage her voice and image? Already at the request of a minor, I answer that I will not send, due to the fact that it is the creation of AI (hehehe). If we don't keep it by any kind of regulations, markings, programs, like the antivirus ones, we're all gonna be there in a minute, like an old man on the porch, with a shotgun ready to fire, mistrustful and scared, due to the fact that Billy the kid is about to come to choice up the last horse and a tabaca.
After all, we besides hand over key areas of life to machines. Management of city systems, communication, electricity, banking, telecommunications. We got a small uncritical about it. We act like birds eating fermented fruit and then lying without strength on the sidewalk.
Everything is for the people, let us usage it, but wisely and let us not hand over our life systems. All you gotta do is perceive to scientists working on artificial intelligence systems to realize that we're not precisely in control.
And besides that specified joyful trust can be utilized by evil Rumburaks and there will be trouble.
Another sign of change that may lead us astray: We lose the ability to create, compose or even search for data. You know that yet? alternatively of putting your head out and writing something, we open up a chat and compose a sloppy order. Why bother? Whoever didn't has a chance to save himself. Run, Forest, run! I think I'm already out. Or not? This column is written by myself, from a finger. To see if I lost that skill.
It's worse to look for data. I'd alternatively put a study in the chat area and ask for a summary than follow it myself. So what? A tool, like any other, makes life easier. Yes and no. It makes it easier, but it's lazy, until it's like dividing long numbers into long numbers. Can you inactive do that? due to the fact that I'm not. I did. And they went into the usage of calculators. erstwhile I'm on a lonely island with no access to technology, there's no way I can divide 3429 coconut nuts by a 127-person group of survivors.
Recently, my teenage daughter has said something like this – how good it is that I went to simple school in the days before the AI, due to the fact that at least I can compose my own essay, and current children can't do it anymore. Something's going on.
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Another example: To the old days travel It looked like this – you went to the station, bought a paper ticket with cash. There was actually no situation that they didn't sale due to the fact that there's no room. The place was always – seated, standing on 1 leg, pressed in the corner of the toilet wheel. For example, you'd drive to the mountains, you'd get off, there'd be highlanders waiting at the train station, offering accommodation. They utilized to swing the key in their hand, and it was known that it was a long-standing form of booking.com. Of course there was besides a variant for the more prudent tourists who could find a telephone number in the telephone book to Hotel Harnaś, or guesthouse Pod Trzema Codszami (by the sea) and you could order a bed. There were besides company holidays and another organized forms.
Anyway, all option was technologically available to everyone – from junior to senior. Now, effort to arrange a vacation for individual little technologically advanced. It's gonna happen. And these seeming conveniences are starting to come at us.
First there is simply a choice – you can send a letter or log in to any application. You can talk to the woman in the window or the robot in the service center. And then it turns out that the window's gone, and all your business is done by AI. Good luck with more different and complicated things. The strategy doesn't find a solution, you spend all day listening to Chopin's mazurkas on the hotline, and yet you press # alternatively of *1 and all the fun starts again.
A long time ago, I was looking at the electronic gates to enter the toilet at Oslo Airport. And I was wondering what would happen if an analog individual came up with an urgent need.
In fact, there was no way he could figure out the payment strategy on time. It's been a fewer years, and in the main square, where I live, there's a full automated shrine, we're moving not on coins, but on a card. And first you gotta read a few-point instruction. 2 languages are available: Romanian and Hungarian.
These facilities creep into all corner of our lives. And we let it happen, we learn, we download apps, we effort to memorize logins and passwords, we sit around all day booking a flight, figure out how many centimeters along and across must have a suitcase so there's no problem at the airport. And it could get worse. I'm tracking a channel from Korea, the most technologically advanced country and in the field of automation we're inactive in the forest. So, hold the hats!
I've complained about technology, time for Social issues. And there's quite a few it. First – safety. On all corner of the camera, a fewer years olds go to school under the watchful eye of a tracking app. Houses closed to domofons, fenced settlements. Do we feel safe? Not necessarily. We learn to live in fear and not trust anyone. Children have mostly lost their freedom and chance to gain experience, fun. Delivered from the door, to the door, well-maintained, checked. We as citizens alike. Our choices are tracked online.
You can't journey without reasoning about individual filming us and putting it online. The Truman show is our everyday life.
Besides, I'm alone. We put our lives in the hands of algorithms.. What are you listening to? Whatever YT or Spotify tells you, right? You choice a movie on the platform due to the fact that it showed up in the section – proposals for you? Exactly. The algorithm shapes your taste and fills your time. Is that a good direction? Partly, yeah, due to the fact that you don't gotta think about what to perceive to after all song. I like John Smith, this algorithm will service me all day with bearded hipster pseudo-wooders with guitar in their hand singing among the redwoods that life is beautiful. but you can get stuck among lumberjacks and never perceive to Grażka by Jucho, Mariza or Alexandrina/Orasul umbre.
I besides feel like We are slow losing assurance in ourselves or in the cognition of generations.
For everything we request coaching, experts. Influents affect us, individual trainers train us.
A 23-year-old specialist will tell me what to feed a cat, what match you don't buy, and what point to compression on your ear to halt my liverache. If I don't have adequate advice, there'll be a branch of PR companies in the Sukurs. They'll offer me savings by spending. For example, they're gonna tell me to buy a vampire costume, due to the fact that if I don't celebrate Halloween, I'm gonna pass. And also, if I don't put on a bracelet measuring all my life parameters, these parameters will halt suddenly, unexpectedly, and no 1 will know about it, due to the fact that people live next to each other, but as if everyone was a tiny planet, self-absorbed and independent from others.
Although there is besides something that contradicts it, due to the fact that we request attention. Dictatorship of laymen and comments. A phenomenon where all experience should be swept through social media to make it real. I'm eating soup, I'm standing on the bridge, I'm gathering Bożenka, I'm posing in front of the Grand Canyon, or on a balcony on the 150th level of a block in the mediate of the desert. And people gotta find out. Our experience is waiting to be approved with your thumb up. We study all our lives, sitting alone at home. Already even selfless aid is mostly for show. How many movies have you seen showing how a young individual helps a homeless man by scrupulously filming everything? Why? For the laymen, for the reach, for your own well-being?
Do all these phenomena have a common denominator? Unless there's little and little man in it all.
I presume that there are more people who don't like this direction of development. Is there anything you can do about it? In my opinion, yes: put passive opposition where possible. Paying in cash, fixing shoes and equipment, not getting sucked into super promotions and buying unnecessary things. Read books, compose letters, or a diary, talk to your neighbor, let your kid go to the backyard, cook dinner with local products, walk on foot, don't throw your full private life online, choose a movie, buy something or arrange it live, not online.
Small things multiplied by a million won't be small. The consumer choice (or deficiency of it) of millions will be noticed by corporations, systems and politicians.
The changes will follow our decisions. If we follow all these improvements blindly, we'll have no choice in a fewer years. Finally, the appeal to young people, or people below, say, 45, who are the mark of any change. To people who are not mostly absorbed by knee-lacing and who inactive want to change the world.
What you agree to, why don't you set up a dam will be your future and your children's. And our older men, too.
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