Technology is something that people get so entranced in. If people are becoming so obsessed with something digital like Hatsune Miku, treating her as if she were a real human, then she's really going to take over the world in the sense that her competition, being real people, are going to have to compete against her. In that sense, it really looks like people will start preferring the digital counterparts more than the real imperfection that real people have.
I think eventually, if technology advances in the wrong way, (or even in the right way, I guess it wouldn't matter), society will be split in two ways. One, there will be the digital world, and the real world, where people would prefer the digital, and two, society's class system will be divided into those who are capable of doing technology-based work and those who aren't.
When you think of programmers and engineers, any job where it's related to technology, you think of someone who is smart. And yes, it's true that you need to be qualified intellectually to be able to do a technology-based job well. In the future where technology is going to be so prevalent, I'm pretty sure that programmers and inventors will create machines to do simple jobs for us such as cleaning and serving us food. If that is the case, companies are going to buy out those machines instead of hiring real workers because the cost is less (in the long run) and the room for error will be a lot less too. Soon, it will be so much better to have machines instead of people, and when that happens, those who aren't capable of being programmers or engineers will be out of work. If that becomes the case, then society will really split into those who can program, and those who can't.
I guess this is kind of similar to the movie GATTACA. If any of you haven't watched it, GATTACA kind of talks about this kind of situation except in GATTACA's society, people are separated into those who were born with better genes and those who weren't.
I think we already live in a world with a big division between data and reality. We have people who draw their identities so much from video games and blogs like this one, that they no longer really function in the real world.
ReplyDeleteYeah, even on facebook, people are kind of just learning about people through what they see digitally and not what they see with people when they actually meet them. Even though digital stuff can be accurate, it's way different meeting people in real life...there's a kind of feeling you get from people when you see them in person.
ReplyDeleteYeah machines have already been replacing humans for a while in factories. It's scary to think about what else is to come though.
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