For the latest talk, we pull from the movie HER and dive into how we connect with the tech. We went into AI in eldercare, getting married to a chatbot, and then how the AI world will meet the adult content world. Finally, we come back to music, with another Sam Altman project to beam soundwaves into your brain.
A common theme in the OMNI world is the fusion of man and machine. Here, an article spotlights the collaboration between Open AI's Sam Altman and iPhone designer Jony Ive.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/sam-altman-openai-wearable-device.
https://youtu.be/di6emt8_ie8?si=dXNQodVHEyvrVwXP
For a bit of Big Brother and Mark of The Beast, why not try a face tattoo that records your emotional state?
https://www.futurity.org/electronic-tattoo-stress-boredom-work-3283952/
Tech isn't alwas bas - is it? - How about DNA editing to save a fatal genetic disorder? How quick does this slip into designer babies?
https://youtu.be/dOeiPoa3gvM
The founder of 23andMe almost lost the vast database of human genomes until she recently bought it back. What is also crazy is that she also was once married to a Google co-founder, was in charge of YouTube, and has a degree in physics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki
5. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
For your next read, consider the sage advice from Mr. Postman who warns of TV ushering in Alfred Huxley's Brave New World and not Orwell's 1984.
..the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297276/amusing-ourselves-to-death-by-neil-postman/
It sounds like a movie plot, a 3D printed death machine. Yet, straight from the so called Dr Death,inventor of the sarco pod, seen here, is the idea of the killswitch implant.
What is more punk rock than using your own brain waves to make music? Pioneer of eHarmony.com and pioneer of brain interfaces, enjoy the following interview with Mr. Buckwalter.
https://missionmatters.com/the-future-of-neurohacking-with-dr-galen-buckwalter/
https://youtu.be/ysGUO5vsRJE?si=WzSho3tPL2x2Di3M
https://artgallery.wa.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/revivification/
Getting back to bionic humans, why not set records with robotic limbs?
https://www.exphandprosthetics.com/post/drumming-record-breaker-jason-barnes-a-profile
Let's explore innovations in tech and longevity that prompt interesting questions.
Some scientists recently created a real life version of the animated Pixar lamp, and in doing so, have had to explore the some interesting questions around feelings. Can emotion be programmed? What does it mean to feel something? How do we know if a robot can "feel?" Does it matter if it is actually feeing an emotion or just convincing us that it is? How might this apply to caretaking industries?
A fun sequence of events, I have become part of a creative community for the latest manifestation of Andrew Schwab's heavy metal and hard rock entity formerly known as Project 86, now P86:OMNI.
The OMNI world imagines a centralized technocracy that has solved hunger, conflict, mental distress and energy through a series of technological innovations. Ultimately, OMNI promises a final piece of tech that will circumvent the natural limit on the human condition: mortality.
Now, while these types of societal benefits sound good on the surface, it would not make good music without a bit of tension. Each innovation has a cost, and so we are left to ask what is the price going to be for the ultimate reward?
While this all seems like dystopian sci-fi, these issues are grounded in real events and some manifestations are not to far away. There are strong parallels to the Black Mirror series in this regard.
This series will look at various aspects of the Omniverse and also our real world advances in tech and longevity. These are exciting and scary times and like any good actuary we have to try to distill how these things will shape our future.
