The Final Weekly Mission X , the grand finale, the one to end all weekly missions for the Communication Studies 116. I’ve been having a blast at doing these missions so far, and this shouldn’t be an exception. I love writing, thinking, and making predictions on the future is like, and conveniently, this week mission requires me to do just that. For this week’s mission, the task is to judge how accurate the prediction of the future was from the video – “The Knowledge Navigator” by Apple; pointing out what did the video producers get right, and what did they get wrong? After that, I am asked to make my own prediction about the future. What do you think a day in the life of a college professor (or anyone else) might look like 25 years from now?
To star this off, I think the prediction from the video was on a right track, but somewhat lagging behind in term of the timeline. To put it in other words, they predicted the technology that might exist in 2015 that was in fact created much earlier. As technology exponentially grow throughout the years, we are seeing amazing breakthroughs in all different industries and markets. In 2015, when I first came to America, I was equipped with the IPad 2 , something that I will brag to my kids one day , with all of the given in features from “The Knowledge Navigator”. The IPad 2 at the time already had all of these features on it: Facetime, notesharing, drawing, scanning & analyzing, taking pictures and so on. Yet, 2015 didn’t quite look like how they describe, at least in America, simply because people didn’t know some of these technology even exist, which drives me to my next point.
Secondly, although technology has been around all these time, the same concept emerges similar to when William Gibson famously said “The future is already here, it is just not evenly distributed yet”. It’s the people who aren’t educated & aware enough to utilize these high-tech equipment into their daily lives. Similar to how elders used to disregard smartphones for their good ol’ Nokia brick phone, people are disregarding Artificial Intelligence or XR technology as something of the future, when in fact it is already here. So, it’s not really about being extremely smart to invent these technology, but more of being aware enough to know these exists. A five year old or 75-year-old has the same capability to use Virtual Reality headsets, but that’s IF they have the access to it.
Ok, enough with the past, let’s talk about the future. What do I see the future of a day in life of Vinnie, an amibitious know-it-all Computer Sciencetist & CEO of the World in 25 years?
As I said in some of the earlier post, time is a non-renewable resource, as once time has past you cannot get it back- at least not yet! So, with the implication that time machine has not been invented yet, we all have 24 hours a day. I will probably still wake up at 5AM like always, no reason to change that, with a full immesive bed room. That means my entire room acts as a Virtual Reality environment, with walls made out of bulletproof screens. I can fully-customize my bedroom to be wherever I want, and on this very day, I woke up on a sunny day on the Napali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii. Hopefully I’ll be married by then, so I roll over and kiss my wife. A little disturbance outside the gates, so I check in with my little persona; AI assistant, which orbits the ins&outs of my mansion when I sleep. I ask “Show me the front gates” , and the Screen on my ceiling shows the security camera in real-time of some kids ringing my bell. They wanted my photograph, again! This is the third time they came around this week. Instead of getting dressed & walk all the way outside, I ordered my AI assistant to fly to the front yard, and let my 3D hologram signed their forehead (& on my latest book release which got #1 on New York Best-Selling List).
I realized that this weekly mission would get too long for anyone to read, so I’ll just end it bluntly here. If you’re reading this James & Bruce, you guys are hands-down the best professors I have had in years at Bellevue College. I really enjoyed the interactiveness and spontaneious that you allowed students to express, which was the strong suit of this course. It sucks that COVID-19 came around this time, but the class was awesome the whole way through. Can’t wait to have more classes like this in the future!
Best,
Vinnie
Sources:
Virtuoso Journal 