A world where everyone has a robot: why 2040 could blow your mind
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Re: A world where everyone has a robot: why 2040 could blow your mind
#2It's odd, but I keep feeling like the pace of progress is slowing down. When was the last time you used a product and said “this is vastly better?”
A PS 4 feels somewhat better than a PS3 which was release 10 years ago. Cellphones seem stuck on the black rectangle design. Cars are getting ever so slightly better cruise control every year vs. becoming self-driving.
We almost have a cure for AIDS except not quite.
Or is that just me?
Re: A world where everyone has a robot: why 2040 could blow your mind
#3A world where everyone has a smartphone
... just imagine!
Re: A world where everyone has a robot: why 2040 could blow your mind
#4am I crazy to think the cultural shift in the rich world will actually be to more local communities, a return to rewarding physical labor such as gardening and craftsmanship to form a low ecological impact society of selected technology?
I don't see the upcoming generation as being dazzled by accumulation and owning stuff. Nor do I see them wanting to ride on the hands of leisure. I see a culture of rejection of the codependence of infrastructure.
When looking at 2040 you have to look at teenagers right now and understand what kind of society they'll be building.
And personally I don't see one with a bunch of robotic assistants.
Sure they have lots of screentime but that's for communication far more than labor reduction. These teens aren't tabulating Excel columns for hours on end. We are amidst a revolution of distributive communication that's being manifested by a revitalization of community.
The barriers to engagement will eventually be expunged, not fortified.
Re: A world where everyone has a robot: why 2040 could blow your mind
#5It's odd, but I keep feeling like the pace of progress is slowing down. When was the last time you used a product and said “this is vastly better?” A PS 4 feels somewhat better than a PS3 which was release 10 years ago. Cellphones seem stuck on the black rectangle design. Cars are getting ever so slightly better cruise control every year vs. becoming self-driving. We almost have a cure for AIDS except not quite. Or i…
...says Retric, typing on a cheap, portable super computer which is connected to a globe-spanning network that pipes all the world's information directly into one's eyeballs, on-demand, at the speed of light...
Re: A world where everyone has a robot: why 2040 could blow your mind
#6It's odd, but I keep feeling like the pace of progress is slowing down. When was the last time you used a product and said “this is vastly better?” A PS 4 feels somewhat better than a PS3 which was release 10 years ago. Cellphones seem stuck on the black rectangle design. Cars are getting ever so slightly better cruise control every year vs. becoming self-driving. We almost have a cure for AIDS except not quite. Or i…
one random example - i'm shocked at how good cheap RC drones are (compared to what was available just a few years ago)
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#7It's odd, but I keep feeling like the pace of progress is slowing down. When was the last time you used a product and said “this is vastly better?” A PS 4 feels somewhat better than a PS3 which was release 10 years ago. Cellphones seem stuck on the black rectangle design. Cars are getting ever so slightly better cruise control every year vs. becoming self-driving. We almost have a cure for AIDS except not quite. Or i…
My iPhone and iPad. It's not that many years that I've had them and they are nothing like anything I ever used before.
My dad's electric RAV4 made with Tesla components. That thing is so quiet and smooth and can accelerate like crazy.
My quadcoptor with HD camera is pretty awesome, and unlike anything available before.
Uber feels vastly superior to me than taxis or even renting a car in some cases.
This one might be weird, but I play a lot of games, and I feel like Heroes of the Storm which came out last year is vastly better than any other game I've ever played in my life. Maybe that's just me? :)
Reading HN and Reddit is a vastly superior experience to reading newspapers and magazines.
I feel very excited to be alive with all the innovation going on.
Re: A world where everyone has a robot: why 2040 could blow your mind
#8It's odd, but I keep feeling like the pace of progress is slowing down. When was the last time you used a product and said “this is vastly better?” A PS 4 feels somewhat better than a PS3 which was release 10 years ago. Cellphones seem stuck on the black rectangle design. Cars are getting ever so slightly better cruise control every year vs. becoming self-driving. We almost have a cure for AIDS except not quite. Or i…
...says Retric, typing on a cheap, portable super computer which is connected to a globe-spanning network that pipes all the world's information directly into one's eyeballs, on-demand, at the speed of light...
Fiber optics and the internet are both older than I am.
The internet is 45 years old. Companies started laying huge fiber optic networks in the 70's.
Re: A world where everyone has a robot: why 2040 could blow your mind
#9Why is enslavement of members of homo sapiens species illegal and wrong, but enslavement of AI robots legal and acceptable?
Re: A world where everyone has a robot: why 2040 could blow your mind
#10The only commentary I can have about that infographic with trends is... It's so mundane. Even boring.
There's no surprise. Everything just goes up at the previous exponential. No big hit, no saturation. Nothing ever changes.
Ok, there's another commentary, in that something that boring is almost certainly wrong on several counts.