essay 2

J. How do you imagine social interaction within 10 years, taking into consideration the impact of

technology on human relations

WSJ predictions for 2014

Space planes, robots, population online…

Microsoft founder Bill Gates suggested that we'd be carrying around small "handwriting machines''—with wireless connectivity—that we could pack full of scribbled, shareable information.

WSJ predictions for 2014

Surprisingly EVRYONE predicted the brisk technology development, but NONE predicted the social networks

WSJ predictions for 2014

Our life really changed with the SM presenceWe twitt, re-twitt, like, share, comment, put

on-line, upload and download, hash-tag and many more

Social media

It changed the way we interact with the world greatly

And it happened to us for the last 10 years ONLY!!!!

What would happen in the next 10 years?

We already start our day from SM, the time with virtual interactions is already between 20 min and 5 hours a day.

Now

We communicate less in person, we have less true emotions, comically our life becomes more shared, yet more secluded

In some countries this effect grew to the point where cafes fight for the consumers not among themselves but for the customer to go out of home

Now

New technologies give people great comfort, lots of communication but did friendship scarce as well as true emotions

Now

As long as people would like to interact, people would keep communicating , sharing, exchanging with each other

As positive from the technology evolution, the comfort would grow to truly sharing not the pictures or content but context as well, a stream of life (e.g. Google glass)

With the yet more advancement in technologies, I would expect that the virtual communication would approach the real one (e.g. Holograms, 3D experience, presence effect)

Tomorrow

As a potential negative impact – there would be no privacy any longer, people would be on-line 24/7, all the data from any action would be collected and analyzed, person would hence be on and off- line

A l’extreme, as depicted in Black mirror TV series episode, one would be able to recreate the personality from it SM accounts….

Tomorrow

No technology shall substitute the real human communication

Technology facilitate it, make it easier, fasterBut off-line world is the real one still (despite

that I am applying on-line with the presentation processor, shared in cloud

To conclude