How can you imagine the coming 10 years and the rise of machines?

 

The following is a piece of speculative fiction work, which might show the way ahead in terms of our future self and how it will think. It has some fictional characters and settings as well as some things in reality. If you are reading this story, you are probably thinking about an imaginary life too or just trying to learn about the world and understand where we come from.

I am not the author — I can’t see any copyright on this story, but only say that if you want more information for example, if you want more specific information like for instance who wrote the story, contact me. The writer did give me permission to use his/her name, so I think he had a right to do the rest. Also, the plot did follow my own imagination but didn't make more sense than that. So the writing belongs to you, if you liked it, thanks. (In case the real thing doesn’t work out for example because they don’t work together and have different goals.) The writing belongs to you, also, the character and setting belong to him. But for now, I am just putting the words in your mind and helping you understand where we might be heading.

If you think about ourselves in ten years, what it is we would want: A robot lawyer? Or maybe we want more human-like robots. Maybe the person is still alive, then the machine that represents people was already dead before people even knew it. This might seem crazy, but maybe not too crazy. For sure not everyone likes technology. It often becomes part of daily life and people are used to it. Then when we want something new it can always be quite hard to get an opinion on it. Just to add or take away. People are used to getting their opinions from other people. Yes, they are a lot smarter so they choose what they want to listen to. But when someone asks them for help, they do need it. They don’t want another smart machine saying “just have your opinion”. In fact, people are afraid to even ask others. But why should this be a problem when a robot could help? What do we have to fear? As one can understand we are all living in the same universe and there is no difference between us on anything at all. Our job is to live what we believe in and not question everything. So if we see something wrong or something we just don’t like, it is up to us to call them names and do whatever we like. Yes, sometimes someone else has to come and say “stop being stupid and stop annoying” but who am I to judge? I don’t want to hear that! We live just by the fact that we don’t need anyone.

We also live in an era of social media. Everyone wants to stand out or make more friends. I feel a bit ashamed to admit it, but actually, Facebook and Instagram are nothing more than a tool, to create better friends. Nothing else than posting your status and pictures to show off you to the world, your hobbies, what you like, how much money you have, etc. No one cares to talk to each other anymore. Social media is important because it helps people discover people who have nothing in common. When people are talking to others about a topic, they usually also have a connection to someone and share things about themselves. That is enough. Now people post their statuses online without even having to speak or look at another person because all who wants is to connect. We need to find those connections, but it's impossible and the internet is full of fake people doing what they do best. Even if you have lots of connections, you have nothing much to offer others. There are thousands of fake accounts. Someone could be watching your picture, looking at the comments on it. He can see how much effort you put into creating a beautiful masterpiece or a charming personality and he can see you as your body and personality. Why wouldn’t you want to look good? Well, there are millions of photos, and users on Instagram are searching not for anything other than themselves, but for somebody else’s approval. You want to become accepted in society, but you can never. We have to hide behind that mask. We have to pretend to care about our life and about the world around us and the time will come when the computer will be no longer needed. Only some people can manage to keep up with the pressure. People like the idea of technology taking over. Others want to stay the way they were. This does not mean that we are going to lose humanity or forget about all the good stories in history. People will remain intelligent. Not so fast. Those will be replaced by robots capable of analyzing data quickly and correctly. Everything will change, but for now, I am not scared! We are not helpless. We are strong. We do not know how much the past affects the future. People are doing things and thinking things that nobody understands why they are doing it. But we have a chance to influence them. We also have the freedom to make mistakes. Mistakes are very hard to avoid. And yet it can also be done. We can change how to become as we always wanted to be or not to be how we always wanted to be. Will we be happy then? Perhaps we will find happiness in a place we will never find.

Let’s change the environment that makes us happy. Let’s change the places we go to find happiness. Let’s change the people we meet even if they do make us sad. Let us change the paths in front of us to reach everything we wanted. One day we can think about coming up instead of staying here.