Is this seriously the future? Where people are so lazy they can't use any strength at all to open a fridge or pressing a goddamn button to open a garage?
Guess I should have seen it coming. I'll commit suicide long before this kind of "technology" arrives.
Only because it's not technology. It does nothing to advance the human race except make them lazier. Stop the madness.
>I'll commit suicide long before this kind of "technology" arrives.
That's kind of strong...
>It does nothing to advance the human race except make them lazier.
You seem to believe that humans are supposed to use their muscles to do stuff. But why should we not voluntarily "evolve" to become intelligences that control our environment through our brains and harness it through minimal interactions? Is our goal not to discover everything and discard unimportant distractions such as opening the fridge and going to the mall from the seeking of knowledge?
It's a matter of opinions, but just remember that this is not intrinsincally bad. If we can alter our bodies to become detached from physical needs such as feeding, sleeping and everything that we do to prevent our deaths, I can say I'd embrace it.
While that may be true, your conscious only experiences the Now, and focusing on what other form conscious will take in the future and not enjoying what you are now could rob you of deeply experience what you already are.
One of the things I'm experiencing Now is a sense of limitless unfolding possibility for the future. Ignoring that would also rob me of a deep experience of what I have.
Is it unacceptable laziness to use a dishwasher, even though it's more efficient? A car to travel two miles? A remote instead of walking over to the TV? Cruise control on your car? A riding mower instead of a self-propelled walk behind?
We've always been pushing for ways that let us do things with less effort. I think we just need to accept that in order to stay healthy, we need to be active in ways we enjoy instead of by relying on doing things the hard way/slightly less easy way.
What I'm beginning to think is that the "make life easier" and more convenient isn't the primary reason for doing what Google is doing nowadays.
Sure, these things make your life that much more accessible, but as opposed to that being the selling point of the product, it is a sort of a hook, an enticement.
It seems to be that by capturing more parts of our personal lives, Google will be able to develop better human language algorithms and sentiment analysis algorithms.
I think what we say and correspond in public is a filtered, impersonal language highly adapted to the audience we are speaking to. In addition, language deals a lot with the environment and a lot with contextual and non-verbal clues, more, I suspect, than linguists think. Hence it is difficult to develop accurate human language models from impersonal, public correspondence.
But by going into the home, Google will have a better opportunity to directly observe the emotional core that shapes the deepest beliefs and opinions of its consumers, and serve targeted ads to the categories of people who will respond best to said targeted ads.
Of course, the data collected have more value than targeted ads. But I think it's well worth keeping an eye on the advertising industry and taking note how their advertisements shape (irrational) demand.
It's not like using that strength to open the fridge is beneficial in any way. You're not going to pump iron flipping your light switch, man.
The more time I save managing the daily nuisances of my house, the more I can spend on my exercise routine, and other things that require actual mental effort.
What's the point in opening a fridge remotely if you're not there to take food out?
Jokes aside, I get your point, but I have concerns. The more we dislocate our physical presence from our environment, the less our environment will require us over anyone else. Your fridge, by needing a physical operator to share its location in space, provides a safeguard against someone on the other side of the world hacking it and ruining your food.
Guess I should have seen it coming. I'll commit suicide long before this kind of "technology" arrives.
Only because it's not technology. It does nothing to advance the human race except make them lazier. Stop the madness.
/old person rant