Not with a bang, but a whimper
It's the little things that seem so innocent. So my car can park itself better than I can... so what?
Next thing you know, the car will be doing all the driving. And in the meanwhile, some other service will be scanning my preferences and activity history (if I liked that then I may like this, right, Amazon?), and the profile it builds from my network of friends (if he's on my Top 8 list, and he likes it, then I may like it) and my genetics and my birth order and my eHarmony analysis and who knows what all, and before you know it, I'll be delegating the decision about WHERE to go too.
"It always works out so much better when we let choose_it.com decide what we do, don't you think so, honey? Remember back when we tried using version 2.0? It always thought we wanted to go to museums and to buy more of the same stuff... gosh, it was so stupid back then... but it really works great now, huh?"
"And I really LIKE not having to work for a living... The NETWORK just builds everything we need and it just shows up when we want it... all that nano-tech and AI and stuff.. whatever they call it. It's all, like, solar-powered, or something, right? Or did it build itself a new power source? I can't remember -- why would I need to know?"
"Man, this brain extension is so cool! I can remember all those things from childhood that I'd forgotten.. and I can speak Spanish now... and I know calculus (like I'd need that!). And I can REALLY instant-message my friends now... brain to brain. Oh and don't tell anyone, but my fantasies are really excellent now, and so damn realistic... and I can do anything, and only the NETWORK knows, cuz I set up my security that way... "
So why do I need this organic body again? And who am I anyway?
Where do I start and the NETWORK end? And wouldn't it be better if I was ALL THAT too?
posted by Ideasware at 3:52 PM
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Where do I start and the NETWORK end?
It's the BORG, Peter... you will be assimilated! ;-)
Will be? You mean I haven't already been? :-)
Or... did you think I was "organic"? Oh, Valdis, I thought you knew... Come -- join us....
Man, I'm so stoked now that I can just pipe my thoughts right into the network. That whole keyboard interface was just so klunky. By the time I got to my computer I could never remember what I had been thinking.
My only problem now, is that when choose_it tells me what to do, I can still never decide what to wear. I guess I'm going to have to go to the forum for a workaround.
Oh, yeah, that's been on the product roadmap for too long now. It's so easy -- linking dress to success metrics for the activities.. a no-brainer, really.
It's too bad we no longer have a consumer economy, cuz this woulda driven a lot of clothing sales. Was it Minority Report that had Tom Cruise getting those Gap ads based on a sort-of intelligent analysis of his profile and buying history?
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