Connected World: From Automated Work to Virtual Wars: The Future, By Those Who Are Shaping It (Philip Larrey, 2017)

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Man/machine relationship
  • Autopilot is using AI for awhile now
  • Human is the best system
    • We have a heart and we can process things in split seconds
Big data
  • ISIS is the first digital terrorist
  • There are people who voted against technology has no idea how much benefits it brought
  • Instead of getting the pope more views, people are obsessed with social media
The future of design
  • To design human DNA
Military
  • To train many soldiers is difficult but easy with machine
  • Machine can make decision in a split second for those shoot-don't-shoot situation
Social media
  • Everyone hates each other in there but pretend to like one another
  • It has become so rubbish that an eleven year old is giving dating advice
  • It promotes depression as everyone trying to be the best
Advertising
  • Profiling sure helps to locate the target group better but also can be dangerous as terrorist could misuse it
  • Advertisement can affect the politics so it is often controlled
  • Instead of censoring, most faults lie with individual
Publicity
  • Publicphobie - against advertising
  • Advertising is not a special power to alter a person's brain, it can be suggestive
  • Comparative advertising - for newer brands to show they work
Cyber security
  • Hacking can be also misled of information
  • China promotes back-doored systems
Journalism
  • We are always representing a perspective.
  • Ignore all the misquotes as they happen too frequently.

Industrial automated systems
  • Glocal - global and local
  • Machines always need an observer, man has to be the ruler

Existential risk
  • House insurance only pays if it gets burned down or flooded.
  • Machines and moral issues are an unresolved issue.
  • Godel machine - hypothetical self-solving machine.
  • People only treat each other better in a disaster.
Philosophy
  • Heraclitus elsewhere says, You would not find out the boundaries of the soul, even by traveling along every path: so deep a measure does it have.

Nuclear instruments
  • There could be a time when we may need a geiger counter on our phones.

Mechanical engineering
  • The fear of machines being too powerful could be overrated.

Information technology
  • IT has to be a free service to be adopted by the masses, the revenue comes from selling data.

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