So AI didn't make it to Zuck's 5 most important things for the next decade (but small businesses and VR did)! Huh?
I'm more worried that he didn't even mention the word "privacy".
Things that I think will be important in the next decade
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Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
Citations to your references would be appreciated. It's the first step to overcoming the state of internet disinformation, as well as helping society overcome the fear of missing out just because someone doesn't already know your references.
I understand what you are saying, but this is a mainstream story, easily searchable with DDG from hints in the comment, covered by both Washington Post and New York Times as well as being splashed all over Business Insider, Mashable, The Verge, etc. etc. This is not the comment to be fighting this battle with.
The first part of the comment is true, but then unfortunately used to prop up a false claim:
>All the while we've learned that they have utterly sold the company to international electioneers.
This is disinformation, laundered with the trust of the first comment.
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand what you are saying, but this is a mainstream story, easily searchable with DDG from hints in the comment, covered by both Washington Post and New York Times as well as being splashed all over Business Insider, Mashable, The Verge, etc. etc. This is not the comment to be fighting this battle with.
You spent so long typing out this reply without providing the citation, when you agree with the request for citations? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/business/media/teen-vogue... for those that are curious.
I agree with providing citations if the situation warrants it. This comment is an aside with a recent, topical, well covered and easily verifiable anecdote, a citation is not needed or warranted.
This is NOT the hill for citation fanatics to die on.
[edit] also another comment had already provided a citation, in fact the citation you provided, so you or I providing the citation was unnecessary so I don't understand your point
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand what you are saying, but this is a mainstream story, easily searchable with DDG from hints in the comment, covered by both Washington Post and New York Times as well as being splashed all over Business Insider, Mashable, The Verge, etc. etc. This is not the comment to be fighting this battle with.
The first part of the comment is true, but then unfortunately used to prop up a false claim: >All the while we've learned that they have utterly sold the company to international electioneers. This is disinformation, laundered with the trust of the first comment.
I wasn't agreeing with the original claim, though it's probably somewhat accurate, nor that this news item supports that claim. Just disputing that a citation was required for that claim in this forum.
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#305Ignoring his ramblings, but saying what I think will be important:
Control. The problem with technological advances today aren't with the tech itself, it's that the burst of consumer users allowed people like apple to turn computing into a user prison where the user has no control. This then set a standard, and many people have grown up without ever using a free and open source piece of software.
So AR and VR and AI and virtual assistants etc, the main problem is always going to go back to the root of why RMS started GNU in the first place; because he saw the future of tech was a fight for control of the user. He was just a man ahead of his time and socially awkward enough that it was and is easy to dismiss him based on what are essentially ad hominem attacks.
The future I want is FOSS/FOSH, regardless of the tech!
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#306>"at some point in the 2020s, we will get breakthrough augmented reality glasses that will redefine our relationship with technology." Constant video surveillance, direct-to-eyes on-glass advertising, targeted advertising beamed on every approved spot, interests profiling via retina movements/focus and God knows what else will undoubtedly come about if AR glasses become "cool" and ubiquitous like mobile phones. Maybe…
First off, if it's overwhelming or if it goes overboard, people just won't use it, so your example of advertisements on every surface and excessive tracking of what users are looking at and doing at all times will likely either not happen or occur but never be demonstrated in any practicable, user-facing way.
Second, even with Facebook owning Oculus and investing heavily into its success (rightly so, by the way, the Oculus hardware is phenomenal), they're only successful because other software developers have made such great use of their systems. In some cases, Facebook has bought the successful software/companies involves (Beat Saber...), but it'll take a long time before they establish both a top-tier VR hardware and software footholds.
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh, I just want my heads up life display because...why not? Assuming that your heads-up live display contains a public facing camera here's: Why not! I don't like sitting in a bar (or a strip club, or in any other semi-public, or even public dodgy or non-dodgy place) and you hang there with your heads-up live display recording my image. I don't like the fact that it's uploaded to some tech behemoth' server for furth…
Those bars and strip clubs already have plenty of CCTVs, you are being recorded. Police have body cams, cars have dash cams, almost every phone has a camera capable of taking video, the chance that you are being recorded if someone wants to is already very high. A glass cam will probably work out the same way CCTV has: people are worried about the potential for privacy abuse, but in the end these fears don’t come to…
CCTVs exist for the business and to protect the business, and used to actually be closed-circuit. Now that a lot of them are becoming "cloud", they will create a lot of the same problems.
The difference with voluntary mass surveillance in combination with AI and social credit is that it incentivizes people to rat on each other to the government or Facebook.
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
You spent so long typing out this reply without providing the citation, when you agree with the request for citations? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/business/media/teen-vogue... for those that are curious.
I agree with providing citations if the situation warrants it. This comment is an aside with a recent, topical, well covered and easily verifiable anecdote, a citation is not needed or warranted. This is NOT the hill for citation fanatics to die on. [edit] also another comment had already provided a citation, in fact the citation you provided, so you or I providing the citation was unnecessary so I don't understand y…
Thank you.
Most folks who do the “citation please” routine are derailing the conversation.
Citation is needed for esoteric, hard to find, or over the top claims.
For regular, mainstream, well reported events, citations aren’t needed.
Google it for Christ’s sake.
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with keeping contact details and sending things directly to people?
The UX of that process you describe (without something like facebook) sucks. It's surprising you haven't realized this once you've tried to do that for more than say ~10 people in the list. If the UX sucks, it means it takes more time and energy to do the same thing, it means that I will not be doing the same thing, I will end up sending to less people or less information. Which means that facebook effectively allows…
I'm not sure that's a bad thing really. Having easy to maintain distance relationships leads to accumulating less meaningful relationships. Then again, I'm hardly a good metric for sociability.
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#310>"at some point in the 2020s, we will get breakthrough augmented reality glasses that will redefine our relationship with technology." Constant video surveillance, direct-to-eyes on-glass advertising, targeted advertising beamed on every approved spot, interests profiling via retina movements/focus and God knows what else will undoubtedly come about if AR glasses become "cool" and ubiquitous like mobile phones. Maybe…
Facebook will implement the worst possible version of Whuffie? Ugh. Imagining that future makes me want to live in a cave even more than the modern web does.