{"id":129,"date":"2014-01-17T15:25:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/?p=129"},"modified":"2014-01-23T17:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T17:28:57","slug":"swansea-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/thoughts\/swansea-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Four options for our future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Riding the train back from Swansea, UK, just delivered a talk to fine-art students, with a strong contextual part about contemporary technology and progress.<\/p>\n

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\nGood response from the students, they seem to share some level of technological anxiety. I told them about my take on the co-evolution of humans and machines and the four families of outcomes I categorised:
\n* the terminator<\/strong>, machines take over and eradicate
\n* the pripyat<\/strong>, after massive permanent techno-natural disaster(s) the global ecosystem recovers unhindered. Remaining humans, if any, go back to hunting-gathering (for a while).
\n* the amped<\/strong>, humans integrate machines internally, becoming hybrids for the next step of human evolution, homo-cyborg
\n* the teddy<\/strong>, human, robots and other machines benefit to each other’s well-being in harmony. This option includes best practice in agriculture, sustainability, social development, bio-engineering…<\/p>\n

In my view, the future will be more complex than any of these outcomes, likely a combination.<\/p>\n

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Riding the train back from Swansea, UK, just delivered a talk to fine-art students, with a strong contextual part about contemporary technology and progress. Good response from the students, they seem to share some level of technological anxiety. I told them about my take on the co-evolution of humans and machines and the four families of outcomes I categorised: *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[15,14,17,18,16],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks","category-thoughts","tag-future","tag-talks-2","tag-teaching","tag-thoughts-2","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}