Are You Ready For The World Of 2040?

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PC and phone user a potential data node. Whether you like it or not, a fine tuned algorithm may know you better than YOU. Are you ready to accept it? If you do not know how to use technology to your advantage, your likes and choices, thereby your behaviour will be modified by the apps or gadgets.Data, Apps, Settings are made mobile by cloud technology, that is, irrespective of the device you use, you get the same User Experience. Google sync is an example of this. Once you sync your Chrome bookmarks, they are available on all devices you access Google Chrome. Phones /PC are becoming a mere medium for apps. Almost all wide reach applications have both desktop and mobile options. Digitalization will make life much different than what is today. App usage is made hands-free by improvements in voice recognition. Writing or typing can become obsolete — would you believe 80% of this article is “written” by using Google voice type. PC s will provide a more wholesome human experience through intelligent applications.All of these are already happening and I am happy for it. Heck I work in the field of Intelligence for Traffic Systems. Intelligence for everyday life is an even bigger playground for tech companies. This is where my concern lies. Intelligence is algorithms + data. Data from your own life is used to build a model of you, which can then be used to optimise traffic, to connect you with other people online, to suggest restaurants, to show social media feeds - to name a few use cases. The more data there is, the more accurate the model can be. To make it simple, imagine I give you a document with with my purchases on Amazon for the last 6-months. You would deduct in one go that I have have a baby and it’s a girl. Now imagine you are my instagram friend, you see the pictures of my baby and me strolling in the park . You know summer is coming; theoretically you could guess that I may buy sunscreen or baby summer dresses soon. You can guess my budget based on past Amazon purchases. Armed with all these knowledge, if you own a clothing store, you could drop ad-flyers in my postbox, just lik

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e how shop recommendations are shown in Google. You could build a model of not only me, but my 4 month old as well. I believe by the time my child is old enough to go on internet, her online choices would have already been made for her, by an algorithm, thereby affecting her offline behaviors. A Netflix documentary sometime back discussed the effects of of social media — it was called, ‘The Social Dilemma’. The focus of the show was how can we protect our children from something that is not regulated. Government and legal systems are light years behind technology. I have a bigger question in my mind. What will I teach my child that can equip her for the future? How can I teach her how to use social media or Internet and not to be used to by it?<figure id="2d34"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*j0PH-FYpX5NHxAR7YBkcPQ.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@askkell?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Andy Kelly</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure>Boredom is a privilege. You can never truly learn anything if you are just too busy. You should be able to afford to waste time by experimenting with thoughts and actions. I remember inventing plays of my own when I was bored on warm sleepy Sunday afternoons. I doubt my child is ever going to know that. She will have cute cat or dog videos at her her fingertips. When maths or science seems too complicated, she can switch to puppy videos. Social networks will not teach resilience, it won’t teach to think for yourself. Even schools don’t teach how to make sense of abundance of data presented. This would be a crucial skill in the future. Do you believe you have it?I am aware of the numerous nice things digitalisation has given us. But I am also complaining about the lack of of regulations for mobile applications like Instagram and Facebook. If you have children, I would like to know whether you have had similar thoughts.</article></body>

It is not that far away.

I am writing this article with my 4 month old resting on my chest after a long day. Has it happened to you that you keep writing about the same topic for quite some time,as if the topic is following you. I previously wrote about the same topic in Medium when I was pregnant. 4 months later, I still have this question. My daughter will be 20 years old in 2040 and I wonder what kind a world she would be living in.

We are swimming in an ever growing sea of gadgets, data and social network. Number of smart devices sold in 2013 was rougly 1500 million units, by 2020 it rose to 3000 million units.(Statistics). A middle class household in every country owns at least 2 internet connected devices. The number of devices and the ways in which you are connected to the internet are not going to reduce in the future.I am a consumer of data for a long time, yet I haven’t learnt to use social media to my advantage. A minimum of 10-minutes would slip away when I simply pick the phone up.

I have 27 apps on my phone excluding the default contact and settings app. 13 of them are are either social media or connectivity apps. That means half of the applications on my phone phone are competing for my attention. What does your statistics look like?

The skepticism around AI has reduced significantly in the last 5 years. The Big 4 — Amazon with Alexa, Microsoft with Windows 10, Google with all its free App options and Apple with Siri has made every PC and phone user a potential data node. Whether you like it or not, a fine tuned algorithm may know you better than YOU. Are you ready to accept it? If you do not know how to use technology to your advantage, your likes and choices, thereby your behaviour will be modified by the apps or gadgets.

Data, Apps, Settings are made mobile by cloud technology, that is, irrespective of the device you use, you get the same User Experience. Google sync is an example of this. Once you sync your Chrome bookmarks, they are available on all devices you access Google Chrome. Phones /PC are becoming a mere medium for apps. Almost all wide reach applications have both desktop and mobile options. Digitalization will make life much different than what is today. App usage is made hands-free by improvements in voice recognition. Writing or typing can become obsolete — would you believe 80% of this article is “written” by using Google voice type. PC s will provide a more wholesome human experience through intelligent applications.

All of these are already happening and I am happy for it. Heck I work in the field of Intelligence for Traffic Systems. Intelligence for everyday life is an even bigger playground for tech companies. This is where my concern lies. Intelligence is algorithms + data. Data from your own life is used to build a model of you, which can then be used to optimise traffic, to connect you with other people online, to suggest restaurants, to show social media feeds - to name a few use cases. The more data there is, the more accurate the model can be. To make it simple, imagine I give you a document with with my purchases on Amazon for the last 6-months. You would deduct in one go that I have have a baby and it’s a girl. Now imagine you are my instagram friend, you see the pictures of my baby and me strolling in the park . You know summer is coming; theoretically you could guess that I may buy sunscreen or baby summer dresses soon. You can guess my budget based on past Amazon purchases. Armed with all these knowledge, if you own a clothing store, you could drop ad-flyers in my postbox, just like how shop recommendations are shown in Google. You could build a model of not only me, but my 4 month old as well. I believe by the time my child is old enough to go on internet, her online choices would have already been made for her, by an algorithm, thereby affecting her offline behaviors. A Netflix documentary sometime back discussed the effects of of social media — it was called, ‘The Social Dilemma’. The focus of the show was how can we protect our children from something that is not regulated. Government and legal systems are light years behind technology. I have a bigger question in my mind. What will I teach my child that can equip her for the future? How can I teach her how to use social media or Internet and not to be used to by it?

Boredom is a privilege. You can never truly learn anything if you are just too busy. You should be able to afford to waste time by experimenting with thoughts and actions. I remember inventing plays of my own when I was bored on warm sleepy Sunday afternoons. I doubt my child is ever going to know that. She will have cute cat or dog videos at her her fingertips. When maths or science seems too complicated, she can switch to puppy videos. Social networks will not teach resilience, it won’t teach to think for yourself. Even schools don’t teach how to make sense of abundance of data presented. This would be a crucial skill in the future. Do you believe you have it?

I am aware of the numerous nice things digitalisation has given us. But I am also complaining about the lack of of regulations for mobile applications like Instagram and Facebook. If you have children, I would like to know whether you have had similar thoughts.