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Steve Smith on
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REC --
Steve --
No worry, we'll do the research while riding in driverless
cars, and the cars will monitor the eyeballs of the
pedestrians for inattention to surroundings. All the eyeballs
in parallel and all the driverless cars in the intersection
pooling their views.
But of course... and the higher functioning (meaning more highly
attuned/resonant with the systems of the moment) will be tapped in
to those feeds, seeing the world as if through the many faceted eyes
of many insects. As the motorcycle discussions here a while back
attest, well practiced (old, or bold, but not old and bold?) riders
already do something (more mamallian, however) like this.
I suggest hexahedral shaped cars that pack perfectly into long range
(trains, plains and ferries) transporters... the passengers hardly
need know when their car moves from roadway to dirigible... (nod
to Bucky's Dymaxion Car).
This would all be moot if the conspiratorial auto makers hadn't
bought up all the patents on flying cars and burned them... they
just don't want us having 3 dimensions to navigate in... they want
us to have more accidents... put in more road miles... more wear and
tear... all so they can make more money </faux conspiratorial
rant>
Yes, they've bundled up all that futurama into the promo
video, but the idea of using a game to sort things out sounds
intriguing. I wonder if I get to express my feelings about
insurance companies ala GTA.
Yes, I'm completely hooked on most if not all of the concepts
presented here. I'm just the choir mumbling to itself between
stanzas of "Hallelujiah! Hallelujiah! Hallelujiah!".
<mumble> The Amish are reputed to ask "who will we become if
we use this (or that) technology"... while they are definitely
anachronistic kooks in many ways, I think it is a legitimate
question. For example, if everyone owns a smart phone, will we all
be found texting while driving, squinting at our screen to read the
newspaper, jacked in (ears) staring at a screen (oblivious to the
humans and other dangers around us), unable to read a map or find
our way without GPS, unable to schedule a meeting without 6 or 8 txt
messages back and forth, including several to fine-tune the actual
arrival times ("I'll be 7 minutes late"... "that's ok, it will give
me time to finish the vibration analysis on the quadcopter drone I'm
deploying to Syria later today") </mumble>
One thing I think that can come out of these radicalized (and I mean
"radicalized" in the best way) perspectives is possible phase
transitions of entire systems. While I have plenty of issues with
Obamacare in it's details, I'm all for the kind of "annealing" of
perspective that is caused by looking at things in a radically (by
some standards) new way.
Why not go all the way with crowd sourcing and allow us all to
"invest" in our future "dis-ease", not just by funding research into
it's mitigation, but also funding it's amelioration. By the time
you need to be in a dementia ward (or alzheimers or "memory care"
unit), maybe you (and your heirs) will own a big stake in it and
can, in fact, have a say in it's policies and employees, etc. ?
Why buy insurance when you could be 'investing' instead? Once
was a time when slick insurance salesmen sold "insurance" as
"investment", maybe it is time the tables were turned? The new
"investment fund" will be backing research into all the dis-ease-es
indicated in your genetic and personality profile and the new "hedge
fund" will be buying in to the many ways to reduce the personal
misery you will experience if/when some of the more pro-active
solutions fail (yes, we'll all now live past 120 but we will suffer
20 years of one form of dementia on the way out?)
I'm very good with the idea of returning to work as play and play as
work (I think this was deeply designed by Darwin's Daemon into
mammalian genetics, primates very likely, hominids for sure). As
snarky as I am about all this, it fascinates me a great deal... it
can't be all bad (one woman's Dystopia is another orca's Utopia).
(I'll now return to binging on Terry Gilliam movies ... e.g. Brazil)
-- sas --
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