The Future Is Coming: How A Preview To What Technology Will Do In Our Lives

Do you think technology and a "Sci-Fi" future is a long way off?

Think again.

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The development of many technologies such as facial and voice recognition along with robotics is rapidly changing the world around us. This is going to make the next 5 years move at a pace, on a technological level, like we never saw before.

Unfortunately, this is going to have a severe impact on jobs. There is still a debate about how many jobs will be created by the new technologies and if it will offset the jobs lost.

Personally, I am in the camp that what is created will be a sliver compared to the jobs obliterated by technology. Advancements in the hospitality, retail, and restaurant industries is going to destroy tens of millions of jobs globally. Some are predicting this will happen over the next 10 years.

Actually, with the given pace, we might see it happen within 5.

Here is a video of a hotel in China that was opened by Alibaba. It is a "smart"hotel and look at how radical it is compared to what we are presently accustomed to.

I will acknowledge that China is much further along than the West when it comes to the adoption of technologies such as this. That country tends not to reject surveillance in the same manner as some across the globe. However, this is the direction things are heading.

The question is what kind of future are we creating? Is it one where technology is causing a dystopia or one where a great deal of life's struggles are removed?

To me, the answer lies in the question of blockchain.

In the video, Wang said that the facial recognition information is only kept for the duration of the guest's stay. Do you really believe that? Corporations around the world showed they are not to be trusted with data.

As a technologist, I absolutely love the idea behind this hotel. However, as a freedom lover, I detest the idea of a single corporation having so much power and control.

This is where I feel that we need to keep pushing blockchain solutions. Artificial Intelligence can be a major boost to humanity if it is distributed. The challenge we have now is AI development is focused mainly upon killing people and government and corporate surveillance.

While most do not care about decentralization, it is imperative that developers think in this direction. I love the project SingularityNet. This is a decentralized blockchain where AI developers can load their innovations for anyone to use. This provides to tools to everyone, not just the elite via their corporations.

Consider the idea of this hotel if most of the data was stored in a wallet that only the individual had. Obviously, authorization to access certain features of the hotel during the stay would require approval. However, it would not be Alibaba who is the recipient of the information but, rather, a decentralized blockchain that is secure and offers individuals privacy.

We are literally entering the "trillion sensor economy". Over the next half decade, the amount of "smart" products is going to explode. It is estimated that there will be 1 TRILLION devices connected by 2025. This is why so many companies are striving to get a head start on everyone else. Products like Alexa could become the "operating system" for the home. Imagine if they take over the home market like Microsoft took over the PC world.

The bottom line is this stuff is happening right now. Governments and laws are not going to save us. The key is going to be alternative, open source developments that give people decentralized options. This is going to be vital.

It is also where the possibility of major wealth is going to come from. Projects that target this market are going to be very successful. Through the use of cryptocurrency, people are going to have the opportunity to share in the proceeds from said developments. Putting the forces of crypto-economics to work along with decentralized development will offer humanity alternatives it never considered possible.

For those who are paying attention, it is obvious the future is just around the corner.

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