Living In The Future
La_Robotique_Cest_Fantastique_Str8nimE_viD video by M Dot Strange
M Dot’s comment on this video: So once I heard this track by Pnok I had to make an animation for it….and I did in 2 hours with Cinema 4d and After Effects ^^ Pnok’s myspace
Today I heard Jean Miller, director International Initiatives at Linden Lab (via an ultra-secret recording that Bernhard Drax has hidden on his site) give prophesy and lend humanity to this machine we’re building.
She said: “Where do you think this is going to go? Do virtual worlds have a future or is it just this fad? My response to that is usually: if you think the Internet is the end-all be-all to communication technology, your answer is probably no. But I think the Internet is the beginning.”
Suddenly I saw the past and future unfolding in a single explosive moment.
The written word. Messengers riding galloping horses. Carrier pigeons dodging trained enemy hawks. The printing press and suddenly, explosively, mass media. The Pony Express. The train. Short wave radio. The telephone oh my GOD the telephone! Television television everywhere and then VCRs and suddenly, shockingly, the Internet usenet/irc/worldwideweb/distributed computing/web2.0/viralmedia/virtualworlds *blip*
augmentedReality/assistantAIs/infinitestorage/… singularity?
I think it’s foolish to make serious predictions beyond the next couple of years, and if “the singularity” is coming, it certainly will be more than a few years off. One thing we can do, however, is speculate about what it might be like. That’s a worthy endeavor, because if it is coming, surely we’ll be swept up in it long before we even have time to notice it has happened.
