“Some of us continue to have old-fashioned careers in the twenty-first century— we are doctors, professors, lawyers, and truck drivers. Yet the main economy is now driven not by what we do, but by the information extracted from us, not by our labor in any established sense, but by our data.”

“In the past, humans had to struggle against exploitation. In the 21st century, the really big struggle will be against irrelevance. It is much worse to be irrelevant than to be exploited. Those who fail in the struggle against irrelevance will constitute a new useless class.”

According to Harari, three challenges will arise from the AI revolution. <ol><li>A new useless class: A new cast for employees who fall behind the technological development as their hard-earned skills are replaced by automation.</li><li>Data colonialism: Technological inequality. Automation in highly developed countries can replace low-wage labour in developing countries.</li><li>Digital dictatorships: Governments and companies with access to information about our personality types, political views, religious beliefs, preferences, fears and desires can monitor everyone and predict and manipulate our behaviour.</li></ol>

Threats from the AI Revolution

On a smaller scale, we increasingly entrust our decision-making abilities and authority to algorithms and algorithmic recommendation systems. For example, billions of people rely on the Facebook algorithm to tell us what is new, Netflix to tell us what to watch, or Google to tell us what is true. Algorithmic systems decide if we are suited for a job, if we are eligible for a loan, how our money should be invested, or who would be a suitable partner on Tinder. Yet, we have no insights into how these decisions are made, nor do we understand the machine's reasoning.

Automated decision-making

The GDPR is a paper tiger. It offers no meaningful protection for individuals against automated decisions. Even if a decision is needed for entering into a contract or an individual has given their explicit consent, it is often impossible for the individual, the business owner, or the developers of an advanced AI system to understand or explain the processes behind how a decision was reached.

GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation

<ul><li>The Data Protection Commission of Luxembourg imposed a €746 Million fine on Amazon related to Amazon’s use of customer data for targeted advertising.</li><li>The Irish Data Protection fined WhatsApp €225 Million for unclear privacy policies and lack of transparency in how it handles user data.</li><li>The French data authority fined Google €150 Million and Facebook Ireland Limited €90 Million for failing to provide a simple method for users to opt out of tracking cookies.</li></ul>

The paper tiger protection

The exponential technological growth has raised living standards, comfort and convenience. The growth continues, perhaps even outpacing Moor's law, which states that the number of transistors would roughly double every two years. The exponential growth of technology is not limited to computer chips. Within decades AI systems will likely outcompete humans in any intellectual field, including tasks previously considered safe such as researching, philosophising, judicial reviewing, diagnosing, and financial analysing.

Exponential technological growth and technological unemployment

Technocapitalism, capitalism boosted by AI systems and other modern technologies, is increasing the gap between the rich and the poor. For example, American billionaires gained $2 trillion during the corona pandemic while parents in Afghanistan sell their kidneys to feed their starving children in the current food crisis. Today's internet seems designed to distract us with attention-grabbing and fake content that is generated by algorithms. The Web 3.0 movement is inspired by the Bitcoin philosophy, but the same system could be used to disrupt geography by forming new countries.

Technocapitalism, the Internet, and Web 3.0

Key public decision-makers should not be oblivious to the scope and the scale of the technological disruption staring us in the face. Radically new ideas from people who think outside the box and outdated protocols should be listened to regulate the current state of affairs and address the challenges and opportunities of the post-internet era.

Responding appropriately

The author is exploring how the AI revolution, and the Web 3.0 paradigm, including the Metaverse concept, will shape the human experience in the future.

A brief overview of relevant challenges in the intersection of law and technology.

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Elaborating on the Need for Futuristic Thinkers

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC.

Who was the man to walk on the moon?

Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.

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Apollo 11 - Wikipedia

In South Korea, the minimum wage increase of 5% in the last year and the implementation of the Serious Disasters Punishment Act unintentionally pushed companies to accelerate their shift toward automation. In the US, Singapore and Japan, robots are rising in response to labour shortages. However, even in South Korea, there is less than one robot for every ten human workers, so it'll be some time before we reach a truly distopian scenario.

The Robot Workforce is Rising Quickly

Labor shortages and other factors are pushing countries to adopt automation.

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The robot workforce is coming - The Hustle

If we widen the road, there is better traffic flow for a few weeks or months. Then, it's jammed again. No matter how much we do this, the road will always have traffic jams.

Adding more lanes

<ul><li>first observed in the US, in the 1930s</li></ul>Once the road is clogged, people seek alternatives, like bikes, buses, and trains.Once the road is widened, people find that driving is faster again, thus switching to driving cars again.

Induced demand

No. There simply isn't enough space in cities.

Can we solve traffic by adding more roads?

The less capacity a road has, the more people choose other alternatives.Investing in other means of traffic, like bike lanes and public transit.

What's the solution?

<ul><li>Less noise pollution</li><li>Less air pollution</li><li>Safer streets for children and pets</li></ul>

Traffic becomes a lot less painful

A developed country is not where everyone drives a car. It's where nobody needs a car to get around.

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Why Roads ALWAYS Fill Up, No Matter How Much We Widen Them

Why Roads always fill up, no matter how much we widen them

Planes today are built to essentially fly themselves. Autopilot refers to a collection of systems that automate a plane’s operations. The most common reason for plane crashes is human error, so it can be reassuring to know that aircraft are designed to be automated and, frankly, smarter than humans. Airplanes are built with redundancies, so that if one system fails, there’s another to back it up. And today’s planes are built not only to operate normally, but to read changes in abnormal operations and adjust accordingly.

Built To Fly On Its Own

The airplane's complex computer matrix tells your plane how to fly, including navigation, altitude, speed, and engine thrust, which controls the force by which the plane moves through the air. When these systems are engaged—after a human enters the flight destination information, autopilot culls data about the flight route, location, and navigation—the navigation harnesses the same GPS technology that’s on your <a href="http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2016-02-24/how-our-smartphones-are-making-us-dumber-travelers">cell phone</a> and spits out an optimized flight plan. This allows the pilot to remain hands-free for the duration of the flight.

That Computer In The Cockpit

The first rudimentary autopilot system can be traced back to nearly the beginning of flight, when in 1912 the Sperry Corporation created a system that allowed a <a href="http://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-air-travel-will-change-in-2017">plane to fly straight</a> without a pilot’s control. The development was a significant one, as it set the course for air travel as we know it today, and gave both mental and physical space to the pilot to increase focus on other aspects of operating a flight or combat, as the case may be. Following World War II, the U.S. manufactured a plane, the F-5 fighter jet, that could take off and land on its own.

The Origins Of Autopilot

The system receives data from the aircraft’s various mechanisms and responds by inhibiting a particular action in response to another action. For instance: If the wings are no longer level, the autopilot receives data telling it that, and it activates to correct the problem. Once the wings are level, the loop closes and that communication essentially stops. This repeats with all of the functions of a plane inflight including steering, speed, altitude, and more. The Pilots are monitoring closely to mind for any issues or inconsistencies.

How Autopilot Works

Autopilots are a useful tool to help pilots manage their cockpit workload, however they require continuous monitoring and pilots must continue their normal cockpit cross check to verify expected and proper operation.Pilots are trained to fly planes manually and some put in manual flying time every month. Still, there is concern that the automation allows pilots to get rusty at actually knowing how to fly.

The Pilots Still Have A Job

The pilot is arguably the most important person on your flight. But the reality is that they may not be manually flying your plane.

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Your Pilot Isn't Actually Flying Your Plane

The opportunity in search is not to attack Google head-on with a massive, one-size-fits-all horizontal aggregator, but rather to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.The problem, now is not what to read/buy/eat/watch/etc., but figuring out the best thing to read/buy/eat/watch/etc. with my limited time and attention.

In a world of infinite information, it becomes important to organize the world's trustworthy information.

Vertical search players like Yelp, Expedia, Zillow, and Behance fill functionality and relevancy gaps using structured data specific to their industriesRelevance depends on the sociology of the current momentA combination of irrelevant filters, ad-based business models, and unconstrained supply has overwhelmed consumers and made it hard to find signalsVertical search aggregators work when you know exactly what you want. But knowing what you want isn’t usually the starting point, which creates an opportunity to help the overwhelmed consumer with better discovery and curation along the funnel.

Vertical search aggregators

The conversation around curation has been too focused on the content and not enough on the structure. Curation, when thought of in the context of sharing bite-sized, isolated bits in feed-like architectures, is predominantly about entertainment, not utility.﻿The opportunity is in moving curated content feeds away from their never-ending-now orientation and toward more goal-oriented interfaces. People should be able to find whatever content they want on their terms and not be beholden to when the curator decides to publish.

Curators, curators

All curation grows until it requires search, and all search grows until it requires curation.

<ul><li>Searchable, curated interfaces will help us move away from ephemeral, time-bound feeds into contextual, high-signal, trustworthy knowledge spaces.</li><li>Unlike vertical search aggregators, boutique search engines feel less like the Yellow Pages and more like texting your friends to ask for a recommendation. They have constrained supply, which is the foundation for their biggest moat: trust.</li></ul>

Boutique search engines are next-level curation

Over and over again, curation sites fall into an existential trap. They start with high-quality, curated recommendations.As they grow, they scale with crowdsourcing, often filling the gap with scraping. The line between curator, compiler, and cataloguer is thin.A natural invisible asymptote - diminishing returns on more data over time

If the value proposition is signal over noise, how do you scale the signal?

<ul><li>Platforms like Twitter delegate this responsibility to their users, who have to go through a long and arduous process of following a huge number of people to ultimately arrive at a self-curated timeline that mimics their interests.</li><li>Some centralize their curation, while others stay away from curation in favor of more traditional crowdsourcing.</li></ul>

Who curates the curators?

The project of human knowledge, as it stands today, is a vast ocean of fragmented information and ideas, with the best sources near-impossible to find. We need more interfaces with a point of view on what information is missing, how it needs to be organized, and at what point of the value chain the curation has to happen.

Until you can build habitual recall into your product, Google will be how your engine gets discovered.

The way to improve search is not to mimic Google, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.

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The Future of Search Is Boutique

Before smartphones, our heads would have held a cache of phone numbers and our memories would contain a cognitive map, built up over time, which would allow us to navigate – for smartphone users, that is no longer true.Our brains and our smartphones form a complex web of interactions: the smartphonification of life has been rising since the mid-2000s but was accelerated by the pandemic, as was internet use in general. Prolonged periods of stress, isolation and exhaustion – common themes since March 2020 – are well known for their impact on memory.

We Keep Forgetting Stuff

In a 2021 survey, 80% felt that their memories were worse than before the pandemic. We are – still – shattered, not just by Covid-19, but also by the miserable national and global news cycle. Many of us self-soothe with distractions like social media. Meanwhile, endless scrolling can, at times, create its own distress, and phone notifications and self-interrupting to check for them, also seem to affect what, how and if we remember.

Smartphone And The Loss Of Memory

Are we so reliant on smartphones that they will ultimately change how our memories work (sometimes called digital amnesia)?Apps that make money by taking our attention are designed to interrupt us.Smartphone use can even change the brain.Cortical thinning is a normal part of growing up and then ageing, and in much later life can be associated with degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, as well as migraines.

Attention Stealing Machines

<ul><li>Start by doing whatever on your devices for one minute and then set an alarm for 15 minutes of time.</li><li>Place your phone upside down and within your view as a stimulus to tell your brain that you will have another one-minute tech break after the 15-minute alarm</li><li>Continue until you adapt to 15 minutes focus time and then increase to 20.</li></ul>

The Tech Break: Use Your Smartphone For One Minute And Then Leave It For Fifteen Minutes

‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint these days. But is it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do the endless alerts and distractions stop us forming new memories?

Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’

What foods we will enjoy in the future depends on who 'we' are. <ul><li>The 'future delicious' call to mind readymade solutions that eliminate the need for cooks and meals.</li><li>This includes Soylent, the synthesised baby formula-like smoothies, or the food substitutes slugged by software engineers coding at their desks. It includes power bars and Red Bulls to provide energy and sustenance without the fuss of a dinner table.</li><li>Meal kits allow buyers to mix a few things that arrive pre-packaged, sorted and portioned and Impossible Burgers, a product that mimics the experience of eating red meat.</li></ul>

Delicious future foods

The future delicious tends to value the technological component of its manufacture over the actual food substrate. For example, Oreos is one of the most man-made foods in existence. It is factory-produced from highly processed, shelf-stabilised flour, stripped of its nutrients, then re-enriched by others, enhanced by genetically modified soy lecithin, and fortified with sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. Oreos have also been found to contain trace amounts of glyphosate, a weedkiller. How we decide if this cookie is delicious is mostly based on nostalgia.

The Oreo is a fantastic case study in future deliciousness

We understand which foods are delicious based on the marketplace, and specifically advertising. <ul><li>The taste of Oreo is based on a sense of being cared for and belonging. In the case of Oreo’s latest advertising campaign, a short film titled The Note features a young man in the process of coming out as gay to his family – with Oreo cookies there as support.</li><li>Another strategy for this particular futuristic food is the appeal to the past. The number one response for why Oreo is delicious is that it is ‘home’, followed by 'school'.</li></ul>

Future-delicious foods evoke certain feelings

Once ‘future foods’ were powdered and automatic, but times change and today they have become about speed and social justice

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What our fantasies about futuristic food say about us | Psyche Ideas

What exactly might "consciousness" mean for AI in the real world?Philosophers have described consciousness as having a unique sense of self coupled with an awareness of what’s going on around you.However, applying those rules to AI is tricky.Sophisticated AI systems use deep learning to solve computational tasks quickly, using networks of layered algorithms that communicate with each other to solve more complex problems.Consciousness for AI would mean that neural networks could make those initial choices themselves, deviating from the programmers' intentions and doing their own thing.

AI And Consciousness

There are three levels of human consciousness, based on the computation that happens in the brain. <ul><li>The first, which they labeled "C0," represents calculations that happen without our knowledge, such as during facial recognition, and most AI functions at this level.</li><li>The second level, "C1," involves a so-called "global" awareness of information — in other words, actively sifting and evaluating quantities of data to make an informed, deliberate choice.</li><li>Self-awareness emerges in the third level, "C2," in which individuals recognize and correct mistakes and investigate the unknown.</li></ul>

The Three Levels Of Human Consciousness

How might artificial intelligence achieve consciousness?

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Will AI Ever Become Conscious?

The metaverse—like many innovations—is shrouded in mysticism and scepticism. Proponents believe that the metaverse will be revolutionary and fully transform the way we work, shop, socialize, and play. Others are more sceptical and see a hype-fueled fad that appeals to gamers and celebrities.A majority of consumers know and engage with some form of the metaverse, and many expect it to become a significant part of their lives. We debunk six myths about the metaverse and now see that consumers across age cohorts will shape its purpose and prosperity.

The Mystery Of The Metaverse

<ul><li>Forty-seven percent described the metaverse with vibrant clarity, using terms such as “immersive,” “interactive,” or a “scaled network.” </li><li>Nearly one-third of early adopters had a basic understanding of the metaverse as “a digital world beyond anything a person can imagine” but lacked a clear view of how it works.</li><li>The remaining early adopters of the metaverse couldn’t actually describe it clearly in their own words, despite being a user or player in one of the digital worlds. About 19 percent had simply no clear understanding.</li></ul>

Survey Results: Defining The Metaverse

<ul><li>Well-known experts refer to the Metaverse as "the internet of the future" or point to immersive devices to demonstrate various platforms and user experiences.</li><li>Most people are unfamiliar with the term, but know of at least one existing metaverse platform (e.g. Roblox, Fortnite, or Decentraland).</li><li>Nearly one-third of early adopters had a basic understanding but lacked a clear view of how it works.</li></ul>

Myth #1: No One Knows What the Metaverse Is

<ul><li>20% of the population expects to spend more time online exercising, working, reading, and shopping in the future.</li><li>People's interest in immersive digital activities and experiences is growing.</li><li>10% have tried augmented reality or metaverse dating.</li><li>Generation Z and millennials expect to spend close to five hours a day in the metaverse.</li><li>This expected shift is driven by a desire for greater convenience and connectivity.</li></ul>

Myth #2: The Metaverse Is a Fad

<ul><li>People who are familiar with the metaverse spend 1.5 more hours per week playing video games compared to those who are unfamiliar.</li><li>Entertainment and shopping in the virtual world are popular.</li><li>One in five metaverse users has attended virtual live events.</li><li>Approximately one in four will be metaverse "superusers"</li></ul>

Myth #3: The Metaverse Is for Gamers

<ul><li>Gen Z is enthusiastic about the metaverse</li><li>Two-thirds of Roblox's 50 million daily users are under the age of 16</li><li>Luxury and mainstream brands like Gucci and Vans are ramping up their metaverse strategy with a focus on attracting younger consumers</li><li>Both brands are experimenting on multiple platforms to determine where and how to recruit lifetime customers</li></ul>

Myth #4: The Metaverse Is Geared to Gen Z

<ul><li>Commercial value is already scattered across different digital products and services for companies to capture</li><li>Consumers expect their spending on metaverse-related digital assets to increase in the next five years, with 11 percent looking to spend more on in-game purchases</li><li>Currently, millennials are the highest spenders, followed by Gen Z</li><li>Gen Z spending shows a split: overall, they spend $47 annually, but older, employed consumers spend $107 on average</li></ul>

Myth #5: You Can't Make Money in The Metaverse

<ul><li>There remains low penetration of immersive devices among consumers, and there are infrastructure barriers in the way of a truly scaled, immersive metaverse future</li><li>Close to one-third of metaverse users see technology as severely limiting their dream experience</li><li>A high correlation between users expecting a realistic experience and frequency of use will push companies to build more immersive experiences</li><li>Consumer expectations regarding data will challenge companies to develop creative solutions</li></ul>

The Speed And Adoption Of The Metaverse

<ul><li>Brands will need to define their metaverse strategy-and the decision on which path to take will depend on what they believe about adoption, opportunity, and investment required.</li><li>One thing is certain: whatever shape the metaverse will take, consumers will be the driving force behind the evolution.</li></ul>

Implications For Metaverse Brands

Probing reality and myth in the metaverse

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