The Future and Privacy — A Reaction
So, I watched this YouTube video from The Kim Iversen Show. This is my comment on it.
It is funny how history is ignored when these 'beautiful' futures are painted. It was rosier than these when the picture of the communist paradise was painted in the 20th century, but see how it turned out for people. When you feel you have figured out people, it’s funny when you don’t even know the actual content of your own heart. Why will people want to think, to supply the innovations necessary to maintain the state of things? What will motivate people? What will happen if people choose not to innovate enough? Do they become obsolete too? What happens then? Or do you think robots will do the innovations too?
Also, driverless cars, Uber, and solar panels; are those the best you can see in the future? Seriously, and you’re thinking you are futuristic. Common guys, that’s not very impressive. I think these guys should just focus on making the money they are currently making and leave the future to actual people who have the capacity, incentives, and motivation to dream it.
The future has never been dreamt up by the 'elites' of society, not any good future. There’s simply no motivation for that. The future requires disruptions and it is counter-intuitive for the powerful to champion it, undermining their position in the process. One of the biggest motivations for creating the future is to gain the advantages of the powerful, that’s why innovators are usually from humble backgrounds.
So, to point out here before I finish, the technologies that will shape the future are not around yet, the infrastructures and knowledge base for creating them maybe, but they are still in the dreams and hearts of the individual innovators, or at best at different stages of development. So, no one can know what it is...when we see the future, we will all recognize it and accept it. It won’t be forced on anyone, or advertised even, just like the internet was not made available to everyone by legislation or by special PR campaigns. We saw it, loved it, and couldn’t get enough of it. That’s the formula for knowing the future when it comes. Another attribute of the future is that it is liberating - to both the innovators and users. It destroys restrictions on people, it increases the degree of freedom for both users and owners. That’s what makes it damn attractive and addictive in a positive way. So, you see why these don’t qualify as the 'future’. I mean anything that is known can’t be the future, by definition. There’s nothing glorious about having Uber as the best thing about my future. That’s a terrible future, and certainly, nothing to be 'happy' about. Well, except they get to define what 'happy' means to you and if you don’t accept their definition of 'happy’, you are going to the gulags...or sorry my bad...the 19th-century villages. Smh. Nothing is new under the sun, especially evil.
Please let me know what your take is on this comment.
Thank You.
Kingsley.