Sunday 17 March 2013

A normal day only a few years in the future

Imagine this, its just a few years from the present day, a day in your future?

You wake up to the sound of your favourite artist's latest track, set nice and low, then you realise its time to arise.  On your side of the bed you are surrounded with images and messages on the walls and ceiling telling you to get up, get organised.

So up you get, you plug in your watch, put your glasses on, your ear phones, then you attach  your exercise equipment and jolt your way to those perfect abs, quads and biceps.  You walk to your kitchen which has already warmed up the coffee, spoke some breakfast choices to you and adjusted the room temperature despite the chill of winter setting in.  You switch on your glasses (!) and your watch and listen to this mornings news from your favourite channels all compressed in to quick fire manageable sections.

You eat your breakfast while telling your watch to read your emails and stream video's you had saved the day before to your kitchen worktop.  You reply to the odd email and tell it to delete the rest then ask what your agenda is for the day.

You set off out the door and sure enough your trusty reliable Prius is sat waiting to take you to today's meeting.  In you get and make relevant phone calls, do a little studying on the people you are going to meet before your car drops you off at your destination and reminds you it will pick you up again later at the set time.

Refreshed and ready for work, time to crunch numbers and go about your daily business.

Is this the future you want, is this helpful?  Do you want a robot to do everything for you, would you prefer not to make any choices, to sit there and bask in your gadgets all enabling you to do your job without going anywhere or learning anything?  Do you believe the human race should be replaced with algorithms - since they are calculating all the choices in this technology.  Maybe one day the likes Apple and Google will know you better than yourself???????

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