Sensitive Relationships
What do people do instead? With so much of the ‘doing’ of life
taken over by machines there is
a
freedom to concentrate on
feeling and relating. People dedicate more of their time to caring
for each other and being social. It seems that human contact,
empathy and real attention cannot yet be replaced by machines,
and so the care-giving field and other areas of compassion work
remain incredibly robust.
This is not to say that objects and infrastructure are not hard
at work striking up relationships with humans. Houses sense
body temperature, heart rate or temperament, and can turn on
the heat or choose
a
particular music to make the environment
more comfortable.
All transport, whether leisure or business, goods or people,
light or heavy, happens in shared autonomous vehicles. In
fact, the sharing economy rules. The closed, secretive business
technology model has been replaced with open source.
Innovation happens so much faster because of it.
Portable Preferences
All people use miniaturised, high-tech, high-touch, customisable
communication platforms able to do
a
wide range of ancillary
functions in addition to simple conversations. These personal
devices carry all human preferences within them, and through
sensors can understand moods and needs as well ...
