Not to Fear the Future is Here!

Singularity approaches and it is greeted by the new BIG Three. Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual/ Augmented Reality.

As the most intelligently (consciously) advanced creature on the Planet, we have historically experienced moments in which we break the “Hamster Wheel” in which we have been previously running. Breaking these cycles is something called achieving singularity. Singularity in itself is a point of infinite continuation / a point of no return so to say. When Humans achieve a new level of singularity, the stage prior to it become obsolete. Think of it in terms of trying to explain cell phones to Romeo and Juliet or the Nuclear Bomb to the Spartans.

Now, as the previously regarded “year of singularity” approaches (2020), we begin to wonder, how much further can our current technology go? Is the technology we have today getting close to its pinnacle? Is this really it?

NOT TO FEAR, THE FUTURE IS HERE!

If we take a realistic view on our current total technological capacity in regards to our total possible potential, we realize that we have only begun to scratch the surface of our technological development. Dear friends, what seems to be coming to an end is the current computational power threshold (which by the way is going to be supplemented with Quantum computing- but that is for another time).

Right now, 2017 is coming to an end; but what the year has done for us in terms of technological development is staggering. 2017 has brought into fruition the previously disregarded technology of Blockchain, took the next step in Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Strong developments found by Google and Facebook. (Here for Facebook — Here for Google), and of course the newer developments in Augmented/Virtual reality (AR/VR).

To actually open up the gateway to understanding where we are,we must first understand what these things are:

• Blockchain- is a Digital Ledger that keep one universal record of all the processes/ transactions that have taken place within this system (time-stamped). As transactions of value move around, those values are pinned to unique entity identifications known as addresses, hereby giving the validity of value to person X. In other words, value and the truth of its existence is serviced by a ledger (History Log) where all movements automatically get recorded and cannot be erased.
• Artificial Intelligence- AI as it is otherwise known is a relatively simple concept; Human cognitive possibility in the hands of a robot.
• Virtual / Augmented Reality- Is by far the simplest of the advances but also perhaps the one that the majority is ready for. VR/AR is a platform for superimposing digitization off of a 2D screen and putting reality as its platform.

So, what exactly do these things have to offer us? Perhaps the best thing that we can do is avoid all technological dips and dives and just project and image that we can all understand. Let begin:

1. Blockchain has the potential to remove all middlemen from any finacial transaction, even banks. What this technology is based on is a principle known as a trust-less economy. Yes that does sound very abstract, but its quite simple. An economy in which we do not have to worry about any party that we are involved in a deal with not being able to execute on their end of the deal and end up just being burned by a bad deal. How does the Blockchain facilitate this you may ask? Well, picture this — everybody has their funds (those funds are regarded as crypto-currencies) at an “address”, the validity of those funds are guaranteed by the history of them appearing there (weather it be somebody sending it to you, earning it by a certain process [known as mining/staking], or just depositing fiat currencies to convert them into crypto-currencies. Meaning that if Address 345 has $5 and goes into a deal stating that he will give 543 a sum of $10, that transaction will become void because that address cannot support that “contract”. Why does this remove Middlemen such as banks? Banks charge fees for all transactions AND they have the audacity to state how much of your own money you can and cannot use at a given time. Blockchain = freedom of all personal assets and finances.
2. Artificial Intelligence is by far regarded as the most disruptive technology to ever possible be concocted in the mind of man. Artificial Intelligence will remove the “burden” that humans call cognitive function from well humans. People tend to take a decision methodology that is the known as the path of least resistance. Meaning inertly we are utterly too lazy to have to do math and would much rather just have it done for us, We are too lazy to have to do research so we would rather have it done for us, we are too lazy to defend ourselves and would rather have somebody defend us. AI fits that bill, it does all cognitive mentally exhaustive functions that people feel too pristine and important to do. Artificial Intelligence = “freedom” from work.

3. Virtual/Augmented reality is possible the most productive and conducive technology to human development. By created altered reality (powered by digitization) our current limitation loosen up. Lets try to project an option: For VR — people have psychologists and they love seeing them, but they don’t like other people to watch them go to their Psychologists, and the travel to and from the Psych takes too much time. What can we do? The User and the psychologist put on their gear, enter a platform where they both see holographic projections of one another and let the session being. For AR — You’r playing basketball. Your not too bad at it, now imagine in this gear an “Iron-Man” like screen is present, layered over the real world that tells you when to shoot the ball and your odds of making a point based on factors that we just don’t take into account while playing( game level? Over 9000).

Friends, all of this may seem like a lot and maybe to some even too much; however we must realize that we have a few options at hand. We can fight against these technologies and most probably get left behind, or we can learn them and then utilize them as leverage to improve our own qualities of life.

Welcome to the future, now head held high and consciousness in check, we blaze the trail into the future!