Future Smart by Canton James

Author:Canton, James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2014-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

The Rise of the Smart Machines: Three Future Scenarios

These three scenarios are likely to all occur over various timelines from 2025 to 2100. There will be locations and industries where various scenarios and combinations of scenarios will emerge and run parallel to one another. The common denominator is Smart Technology that can think, problem solve, analyze, mimic humans, acquire information, sense, predict, deduce outcomes, forecast probabilities, and control physical and virtual operations will drive these scenarios. Smart Machines, from vacuum cleaners to solar space arrays to complex global energy harvesting will populate our world, change our culture, and, if designed properly, help humanity as a civilization evolve to realize our potential for creating a sustainable future. How we get to the Smart Machine Economy is based on rapid innovation in creating distributed cognitive intelligence software—the Artificial Mind, global connected online networks—and the Distribution System and the platform that holds or contains the intelligence—the Hardware, such as robots, autos, energy management systems, drug discovery bots, buildings, or the entire planet’s essential services.

Smart Technology, built in our image, by humans first then by other Smart Technology, will lead to an evolution, the emergence of Sentient Machines, mimicking almost-living things. Thinking, sensing, smart, and aware machines will travel over the Internet, touching all things, systems, and people in some way. The sheer power of a million yottabytes of information streaming across the Internet, touching billions of things, people, systems, and assets will create a New Future. Hopefully this New Future will be one that will contribute to a better, more humane, and just future for humanity, but the road to that ideal scenario will not be a smooth transition from where we are today to where we want to go. Here are three scenarios that will shape that future.

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