The Future Innovation that looks Impossible
The
world is changing drastically, and people begin to wonder when there were so many
changes in the past 5,000 days, what would the world look like in the next
5,000 days? Kelly (2007), in a Ted talk show, discussed some innovations in the
past 5,000 days and peeped to see the future, and he shared what the future
holds for us. Looking at the world today, all that we could not have imagined
are now in existence, and researchers are not relenting in their efforts to
unfold more. I was searching through the internet when I saw a firefighting
vehicle that was raised in the middle of traffic. The vehicle passed and reached
its destination earlier than it would have been if it had passed the traffic normally.
Another amazing one I came across is the disposable phone, which is meant to be
connected with only one contact, calls, and sends messages to that contact, and
you can dispose of the phone afterward. I do not know, and I am not sure how
authentic these are.
The
future innovation that looks impossible, which I want to discuss today is that “we
could live in a Matrix-like virtual world by 2045” (Business_Insider, 2021).
This is when humans’ brains would be linked to the computer, and people will think
they are in a virtual world. This is achievable through nanotechnology
advancement. This was also mentioned by Kevin Kelly in his talk. He said that
there would be a union of atomic and digital wherein everything would converge.
There will be only one machine, and the web will be its operating system (Kelly
2007). With nanotechnology, peoples’ brains would be plugged into computers
which would be linked together through the web, making us feel we are living in
a virtual world. This can be likened to the wireless neural lace that Tesla CEO,
Elon Musik, once talked about at Vox Media's Code Conference in Southern
California (Business_Insider, 2021). Nanotechnologist has been researching this
neural lace, which is a brain-computer system that adds a digital layer of
intelligence to humans’ brains.
This innovation might be economical and
technical to us, but it does not seem beneficial and ethical.
I mean, why do we want to live in a virtual world? The more complicated the innovation,
the more dangerous I foresee it to be. Do we want everything to crash in the
long run? I think that is where we are heading; one point of failure. If
anything goes wrong in the main system, everything crashes.
References
Kevin
Kelly. (2007). The next 5,000 days of the web [Video].
YouTube. https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web
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