We are living in a future tech environment envisioned over 50 years ago
German Illustrator Gunter Radtke imagined autonomous cars
When BigBlue beat Kasparov many believed it was the end of chess. But today the most potent chess competitor is not a person or a computer. It is the teaming of the two together in the form of Freestyle Chess.
Intelligent Assistants
Before SIRI, Cortana and Alexa, there were
Maschinenmensch in Metropolis (1927)
Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet (1956)
HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
C3PO in Start Wars (1977)
Rachel in Blade Runner (1982)
Bishop in Aliens (1986)
Data in Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Agent Smith in The Matrix (1999)
But none of that felt real then. It wasn’t until we started placing technology into the consumer context that it became real. Minority Report did that in a near future which suddenly made contextual advertising feel real…
Is Alexa Listening when she is ‘off’?
George Orwell predicted the gathering of intelligence via multiple channels/listening devices, observational channels too – but he clearly did not predict Brexit – as in 1984 the UK is depicted as ‘Airstrip 1’ part of the superstate of Oceana
When BigBlue beat Kasparov many believed it was the end of chess. But today the most potent chess competitor is not a person or a computer. It is the teaming of the two together in the form of Freestyle Chess.