Listen to this:
It will help mellow you out while you read these:
Do you have, or know someone who has, one of those devices that can order pizza, play your favorite song, or put in a call for some midnight loving by just asking it? You don't even need to be nice when you ask, either...no 'please' required. Just say her name, say her name. She's present all the time, waiting patiently to hear your demands. Maybe she's anticipating them, maybe after some time spent around you and your family she'll even get to a point to where she can preemptively guess what you want or need and just have it waiting at your door within an hour via drone shipment from Amazon.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
From the article above: "AI frightens many people because they don’t trust it to remain obedient."
I think it also turns a lot of people off because it's good to communicate and interact with other human beings. Who else doesn't feel comfortable getting into an automobile controlled by something with which you cannot bargain, argue, or physically harm should the necessity present itself? #NotForMeThanks There's a certain warmth in ordering a meal from a high school Sophomore rather than punching buttons on a kiosk, and that element of danger when you return it after they jack it up that maybe someone might leave a little something extra mixed into the ketchup can be exhilarating.
It may be a fact that automation has been stealing jobs from hard-working humans ever since it's implementation, but the speed at which it's moving today has increased exponentially and at such a rate that I've heard otherwise very intelligent people suggest that a living wage might not be such a bad idea, after all.
However: https://www.recode.net/2018/10/20/17795740/jobs-technology-will-replace-automation-ai-oecd-oxford
I recently saw a commercial for the product Ring where the entire neighborhood had this monitoring system which has the capability to communicate from house to house. A would-be robbery was avoided, due to the camera and the other residents were alerted with a video of the criminal. Pretty cool concept. Generally, however, when their houses are not being robbed, people just live their lives. They walk their dogs, check their mail, sit on their lawns or front yards. They wash their cars, they have arguments and barbeques, sometimes they get drunk and have fistfights or sex under the stars. I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer to not be monitored by my neighbor’s cameras 24/7. Besides, we all know that cameras like that get hacked all the time, who else could be watching... likely IS watching? How much of our privacy are we willing to relinquish for a sense of security? It’s not even really security, if you think about it. It’s just recording the bad things as they happen. Now you can watch it over and over again 😒 and, yeah, it might help authorities capture the bad guys who did it, but that’s of little consolation after a personal violation. Besides, the likelihood of some cracked out meth head recognizing that the little box on your house is a camera, is pretty slim and the chances they would care enough to let it stop them are Amy Winehouse scrawny.
Don't give up on me yet...I'm hoping to get better as I go. Thanks for paying attention 🤗
P.S. If the soothing sounds didn't help you relax, I hear marijuana is legal in just about every state now! 😘