I see my picture in the mirror on the way to grab a muffin and be reminded that sometimes people call the face of (my) “KC Cole”; makes them laugh for some reason. I wonder what group it belongs to. Do I want to know?
Now here it comes the worst part. When I started writing about “the future of reality, ”It occurred to me that the countries photographed in The Matrix it was very real. I didn’t mean to say that, because I thought people would accuse me of being an adult with a mental illness.
But it turned out that I had a reputable (and small) company. Not the Luddites, who force us to take red pills today and visionary like Lanier. Ten years ago, he wrote a well-known book You are not a Tool; moreover, he argues, it is you. In fact, you (we) are becoming “computer peripherals connected to large computer clouds.”
Kate Crawford of Microsoft, in AI graphics. AI enforces a “system of things that does not change,” reduces depth, kills grace notes, makes the experience better for us and for us as well.
Lanier and Co. believed that the world would be a better place if everyone shared more freely; instead, they describe them as the places we see all the time, providing data whether we want to or not. (I wonder if the Amazon driver out there is being monitored by some kind of Smith – it ‘s best to keep him on the line. We all know the answer to that.)
Funny comics removed from the internet — our faces, habits, health, money, children, lovers, our favorite theaters, vacations, conversations with your Roomba — go to powerful computers that change what you see so you don’t have to worry about, to sell you. things. It is a one-way street. We are exposed to megaservers, but they are opaque to us. Remote organizations use the same thing to change our lives “in mysterious ways,” writes Lanier. “You don’t really know what it would be like if someone else’s cloud had a different idea of what you could be a lender, a date, or an employee.”
The Matrix video version receives fuel from human batteries. The big machines that we strangely call “clouds” also feed people: those who dig for missing salt, collecting materials, driving cars, goods, translating texts, writing and testing objects with faces (often wrong; especially if “a woman, blind black, or otherwise).
It takes thousands of people to perpetuate the illusion of lightweight, lightweight machines. In these endeavors, humans are much cheaper than robots.
Trying to figure out its underground truths is as difficult as Neo first observes the amount of saturated fat in children. No one wants to hear about its value: the amount of carbon in computers, the discharge of community water and electricity, reliance on tax-paid infrastructure, sewers, gas lines, fiber Optics, you name. There is a reason why megaservers are hidden in remote areas.