Le Changement d’Ambiance

— had to call it this, because “human chilling” sounds too good

I’m not sure this is the right blog for this, but I just have to tell you about a conclusion this FLM* produced — in the context of practical applicable knowledge (…logos ;).

*Fat Lazy Model

This FLM has been trained for almost half a century, being dragged around the globe quite a bit, to the point that it now plainly sees the climate change, and now it also plainly sees…

Ahemm… I have a theory (and it’s mine), and here it is.

The climate change is real, right? and it is caused by human technology right? and the planet’s surface is warming up little by little, causing enormous disruptions in nature, right? Because everything natural is chemistry, and it’s very temperature-dependent, okay?

So, my theory is: human (“1–1”, “F2F” OMG) communication is cooling down, degrading just by a little bit, because of all the human information technology, but since communication is so important to human society,* this is actually one of the main factors in the recent rise of social conflict leading to wars and shit — everywhere…

*I would argue that communication is intellect (and intellect is humanity), effectively, at least, for our poor Homo Sapiens

Let me chew this up for you:

1. the history of humankind is a history of communication development: e.g. messages are communication in space, books are communication in time
2. still, until recently (about a generation ago), most of humanity’s raw communication — and its development — was in direct physical (“verbal++”) human interaction, in the plethora of ever-developing human tongues
3. and that included, oft-times, between people that found that interaction unpleasant or otherwise undesirable; given a choice, a big part of these communicators would avoid their direct contacts
4. they have been given a choice (with the IT industry)
5. so, a big part of this fierce fight for efficiency of business communication — as well as the main driver behind “entertainment” social networks, I believe — is avoiding unpleasant direct human interaction
6. a lot of human interaction is now overtaken or brokered by robots (yes, I mean just automatic-borderline-autonomous systems, forgive me for using archaic terms, but terminology’s fashion seasons drive me nuts)
7. humans are losing emotional capacity* and experience social disconnection — we are being just worse in talking to each other — just because we practice doing it much less (“good vibes only!” yeah?)
8. small latent conflicts, that — in the past — would have probably just manifested through direct interaction, caused only local disturbances and resulted in healthy compromises — while certainly improving human communication (and maybe even culture) in the region…
9. …such very local conflicts — nowadays, aggravated by growing disconnect and declining trust — not being resolved in a satisfactory fashion — accumulate instead, and, akin to the excess heat, trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere, cause social changes on the global scale, what I called:
10. Le Changement d’Ambiance or the human chilling

*the problems with human’s emotional apparatus — as a result of physical disconnection — don’t stop there, but this is a topic of another note

You may say “the world is just going crazy, what else is new?” to which I’d respond: as an IT professional of age, I find it useful to analyse these processes in detail — for fun and profit. In my opinion, a distinction of direct communication degradation — with humans managing direct conflicts (and then, any discussions) less efficiently — having preferred being kid-gloved by robots — is a useful observation.

Not all scientists agree on whether the global warming can be adequately curbed before there will be significant changes to the Earth’s biosphere — hurting everyone and everywhere (except, maybe, Ireland).

I — being undoubtedly the first and the only person on this planet who’ve even come close to understanding the “human chilling” theory put forward — personally don’t know if any counter-processes may emerge before there will be significant changes to the humanity’s noosphere…

…But — being realistic on an idea of rolling back the IT completely (cu-ckoo) — I can propose one direction for some humans — and it may seem to come from the realm of the Dune-level fantasy, but… open your mind and give it a chance please, you may see that humans may have all they need for going an alternative route already; and introducing personal informational hygiene,* through proper I&T understanding, into their culture may not be a very distant goal: in my current understanding, it is as simple as prioritising social/RL aspects in IT.

*…and responsibility — I’m not even sure they have a word for this thing yet, but for instance:
not before long, a person’s image (or influence) may hope to be somehow consistent for some reasonable time — after biological death of the person — only through a great (historical!) legacy, to a large number of people, preferably; nowadays, most of people’s digital personas (collections of all data related to them) will — very apparently — have more chances of survival than any of their ancestors — so, some conscious responsibility for those may probably be healthy for humanity in general

There’s no way back, we won’t give up our IT gadgets until we’re literally dead, no climate change and no changement d’ambiance will make us back up, but there’s a way forward instead: to keep all the technology, but to make you own your information systems properly, that is, gradually,* make all computer systems owned privately — so all the responsibility for any activity of a person’s (however automated) equipment is properly defined, and people have full confidence and security in their communication to other people — thanks to their privately owned connected systems.

*there’s a long way to go for this kind of a transition, obviously, but in fact, Private Information System Ownership is possible — and useful — today already, thanks to End-User Integration (or One-User Integration), which I’ll be describing next in my continuing series on techno- and methodo- logy of self server.

The forces of the old business establishment seem to have a pit bull’s hold on the weak-willed IT industry, obscuring any hope of responsible progress, but this is just a regular illusion of “tech juggernaut” invincibility (really, just hanging in there until the next technological “breakthrough” reshuffles all of their corporates), and I believe, categorically changing IT business practices is possible, and possibly fast; just look what happened to the food industry over the course of the last century, for instance.