The Big Nine by Amy Webb

Author:Amy Webb [Webb, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2019-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

2029: Comfortably Nudged

With the G-MAFIA collaborating and GAIA leading to lots of new trade agreements, citizens around the world have better, cheaper access to ANI-powered products and services. GAIA meets regularly, making all of its work transparent, while its multinational working groups are comfortably keeping pace with technological advancement.

Middle-class homes rely on AI to make life a little bit easier. Devices, platforms, and other services are interoperable even between countries, where decades earlier licensing and data restrictions prevented access across borders. Smart washers and driers use less energy, are more efficient, and synch up to our smart city systems to share data. With consent, we allow our laundry to be done when it causes the least amount of strain on our public water and electric utilities.

ANI supports sensory computation, which means that we can collect and query the real world using sensory data: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. You use handheld scanners, outfitted with smart cameras and computer vision, in your kitchen. The spectrometer embedded on an ANI wand in the kitchen captures and reads the light from an avocado to tell you that it probably won’t be ripe until the weekend—while the discount olive oil you just bought isn’t pure, but a mixture of three different oils. Another sensor in the kitchen has detected that the chicken roasting in the oven is about to go bone dry. Upstairs, a haptic sensor lets you know that your toddler has managed to escape (yet again) from her crib.

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