James Whittaker's Little Book of the Future
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We are the first human generation smart enough to build artificially intelligent machines and stupid enough to actually build them. In as little as a single generation from now, we will coexist with machines smarter than ourselves and live a life that is bereft of labor and responsibility. How will this technology evolve? What impact will it have on our social structures and economic institutions? Join Microsoft Distinguished Engineer James Whittaker as he takes us on an educational and inspiring romp through the near-term future using examples from everyday life as we edge closer to the science fiction world of tomorrow. Come ready to be challenged and most of all, brace for impact.
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In this short book James paint an overly simplified future that machines infused world full of VR/AR/ML/AI looks like. All that for no particular reason and without paying attention to any social and economical consequences that a technological revolution of the future brings. Or to what people want, love and feel.
Picking out a movie / trip / dish is part of experience that people want to have. And pushing and picking the stuff we “want” right under our noses is advertising. And that's what we don't really want more.
I'm a technology guy, I'm all in on the machine heavy future of humanity (see my book list). But that future needs more thinking than Little Book wants us to believe.