Occasionally, once in a great while, I get out of "my bubble", or am forced to, and look around at the technology and apps that are available, some for home computing but most, more and more, for our cell phones.
I tell you, it's overwhelming.
It's been fun for a while. If you realize you don't just have a TV in your pocket but a full-blown computer that can do who-knows-what-all, it's been fun. It is fun. It can be fun, anyway.
But every once in a while, I realize, how much there is out there, how much computer power is in our pockets and how dizzying it all is. It seems there are apps for so much more of the minutiae of our lives than I would think anyone could or would ever imagine.
I understand why these apps have been created, too, sure. Everyone has to "make their mark" and no less so than in computing but wow. Clearly we humans are taking all these apps and our phones way too far. In my eyes, anyway.
I think it's scary and getting scarier.
Americans Spend An Alarming 4.7 Hours
On Their Phones
And the trend of time spent on cell phones is still increasing and the younger we are, the more it's increasing.
Yeah. This is not your grandfather's world, that's for sure. Between these developments and humankind's rush into AI, artificial intelligence, I don't like the looks of where we're heading, as a species, as a people. I think we are, it seems, all running headlong, forward and we don't have any idea where we're going, where this is all leading us.
Y'all be nice out there.
Links:
Stephen Hawking warns of an 'intelligence explosion'
Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates Warn
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