3pointD.com’s birthday’s post run my thought really wild this morning. As a prediction there goes:
• Much of broadcast media will evolve to incorporate virtual worlds and geospatial technologies
• The display of information will take on three dimensions where useful, and we’ll find ways to make 3D models and worlds useful in more and more areas
• The physical world will stream digital information directly to mobile devices
• Lifelogging, geospatial technologies and the heightened expressive power of virtual worlds will make possible deeper communication between people
On one hand, I love metaverse young as it is, and I am enjoying watching it grows and develops. Most of all I feel privileged over generations that were and generations to come, by the fact that I am living in the time internet made its first steps. Not only that it makes me really high to imagine all those connections and data running around, it is pleasure to stay down and just work with the technology. On the other hand, it is not new technologies emerging, it is human society transforming, and it is transforming is such measure that it will affect our specie. We are transforming and mutating as human beings. Those kind of transformations takes generations to become visible, but they are happening continually. The way we socialize, the way we communicate affects our very being. Maybe we could like those new humans maybe not. Surely enough, we are not going to see them, it takes much more than one generation to complete an evolution step, even the fast one like this one is.
We see the world changes but we cannot see where it goes and which shape it will take. Greater connectivity is inevitable, but the question of measure is not to be answered soon. If we take current trends to the extreme we can easily see something like an ant farm. Individuals connected in a way that makes them behave like one huge organism. Is there a point when human being instinctively refuses to communicate in attempt to preserve its own identity and integrity? I suppose so.
But, there are problems to be addressed long before we go to scenario of humans become like ants in cyber-nest. We should be concerned about our freedom and privacy. We should not wait future to see where our own communication capabilities leads us. One doesn’t need to be a pessimist to get a nightmare out of simple realistic prediction like the one made in 3pointD’s article.
Surveillance, control and complete loss of individuality and freedom are just a few clicks away from great opportunities and bright future we can expect from the same technologies. Do we have a choice? And, if we do, which one shall we take?
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