I don’t know. We used to think that the biggest threat we faced as a species was nuclear war. Now it looks like it’s global warming

The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling,” a story about life-logging, or using technology to record every second of our experience, raises interesting questions about the way tech can quite literally change the way we think. Do you see that happening at present? In the near future?

Optimism is relative. I try to look at both positive and negative aspects of new technology; if you are used to hearing only about the negative aspects, an approach like that will come across as optimistic. By contrast, if you are used to hearing only about the positive aspects, then that approach will seem pessimistic.

, I think the biggest change has been the rise of social media

What are the most significant ways you feel our culture’s relationship with technology has changed in that time?

But that era is coming to an end. Remem is merely the first of a new generation of memory prostheses, and as these products gain widespread adoption, we will be replacing our malleable organic memories with perfect digital archives. We will have a record of what we actually did instead of stories that evolve over repeated tellings. Within our minds, each of us will be transformed from an oral culture into a literate one.

Little by little, over repeated instances of recall, I’ve created a happy memory for myself.

Rather than thinking of an event from her past and seeing it with her mind’s eye, a child will subvocalize a reference to it and watch video footage with her physical eyes. Episodic memory will become entirely technologically mediated.

writing helps me decide what I want to say

Forgive and forget" goes the expression, and for our idealized magnanimous selves, that was all you needed. But for our actual selves the relationship between those two actions wasn’t so straightforward. In most cases we had to forget a little bit before we could forgive; when we no longer experienced the pain as fresh, the insult was easier to forgive, which in turn made it less memorable, and so on. It was this psychological feedback loop that made initially infuriating offences seem pardonable in the mirror of hindsight.

Anyone who has wasted hours surfing the internet knows that technology can encourage bad habits.

But if you’re the type of person who’s constantly trying to prove that you’re right and your spouse is wrong, then your marriage is going to be in trouble whether you use Remem or not."

but I knew what marriage counselors said: pinpointing blame wasn’t the answer. Instead, couples needed to acknowledge each other’s feelings and address their problems as a team.

You correct me in front of our friends all the time. You’re telling me I can’t do the same?"

There’s no denying the usefulness of software that can actually answer the question "where did I put my keys?" But Whetstone is positioning Remem as more than a handy virtual assistant: they want it to take the place of your natural memory.

But take away the assistive software and give her nothing but a keyboard like the one I remain faithful to, and she’d have difficulty spelling out many of the words in this very sentence. Under those specific circumstances, English becomes a bit like a second language to her, one that she can speak fluently but can only barely write.

t might no longer be necessary to teach children how to read or write, because speech recognition and synthesis would soon render those abilities superfluous.

There are other risks. Catastrophic conflicts involving nuclear and biological weapons pose real and possibly higher risks now than when the weapons were controlled by Cold War powers; the risks of terror-ism and the newly added risk of cyber warfare are also real and so is the risk of antibiotic-resistant infections. We may lay the blame for all of these concerns at the feet of modernity, globalization, inequality of wealth, unemployment, too little education, too much entertainment, tliversity, and the radically paralyzing speed and ubiquity of digital communication.

Fortunately a good number of the current efforts in the expanding world of AI and robotics are aimed at creating not humanlike robots but devices that do things we humans need to have done competently, economically, and faster if possible. The emphasis is on smart action programs. It does not matter at all that the programs do not pro-duce feelings, let alone conscious experiences. 9 I am interested in the "sense" of my robot, not in her "sensibility

There is plenty of evidence that artificial organisms can be designed so as to operate intelligently and even surpass the intelligence of human organisms. But there is no evidence that such artificial organ-isms, designed for the sole purpose of being intelligent, can generate feelings just because they are behaving intelligently. Natural feelings emerged in evolution, and there they remained

Woody Allen once joked that he wanted to achieve immortality by not dying. Little did he know that one day the idea of doing away with death would not be a mere joke. Humans have now figured that the possibility is real, and they have been quietly working toward that goal. And why not? If indeed it would be possible to prolong life indef-initely, should one forgo the option?

Examples include artificial retinal implants for blindness and the development of prosthetic limbs controlled by self-driven mental events, namely, the intention to move a limb. Both examples are a current reality and will be perfected in the near future

Just think of read-ing glasses, binoculars and microscopes, hearing aids, walking canes, and wheelchairs

What on earth are parents trying to guarantee or avoid? What is so problematic, for a developing human being, about facing the luck of the draw and defining his or her own destiny by combining willpower with whatever gifts or flaws one is born with?

The once fatal ravages of infections have been controlled by the development of antibiotics or vaccines or both. The battle is never ending because new infectious agents appear on the scene or because old ones change so much-often as a result of antibiotic therapy-t

Ultimately, dating apps are developing based on our prurient interests in finding the best possible mate for our current market value in the dating market. Some apps help to give people the best chances for achieving that, while others may make it easier for those with the most desirable qualities to be selected at higher rates than ever before. However, like most markets, in time there will be more parity as new tools emerge for connecting different types of romantic partners.

With over 1,500 dating apps on the market, many have come to the conclusion that the romance of courtship has been replaced with fantasy and heavily-edited Instagram photos.  Along with driving this increase in dating apps, the millennial generation is also delaying marriage and moving away from conventional religious practices. Because of this, many popular magazines and TV shows suggest that hook-up culture dominates contemporary pursuits of love. Right-swiping, label free, highly educated, and technologically savvy, today’s young people appear to pursue sex frequently and do so on their own terms. There also appears to be much more equal footing between genders than ever before.

Not sure what the laws are? Panda Security has an infographic (featured below) on 7 types of online harassment and their legality. The visual also gives advice on how to handle or prevent the types of harassment.

While online harassment can happen to any age group, it’s common in adolescents and teens because they’ve grown up in the age of the Internet. It was reported that over half of them had been bullied online.

“When all of this started happening with the pandemic, we decided to accelerate our plans,” says Plenty of Fish CEO Malgosia Green. “It became really great timing for us to get the feature out there to people stuck at home who aren’t able to meet people the way they’re used to.”

Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd has directly encouraged users to date virtually and avoid meeting in person, writing in a public blog post that “we want to help you stay connected, even when physically apart.” She hopes people will use Bumble’s in-app video chat feature (launched without much fanfare last year), another tool for its female-centric audience to gauge a potential date. With more people at home, Bumble saw use of this function spike 93% between March 13 and March 27. The average call was nearly 30 minutes long.

“While we are socially distant, we definitely aren’t disconnected,” says Tinder CEO Elie Seidman, who reports daily messaging activity among the app’s American users has risen by 10% to 15% across the country. “More than ever, having someone to talk to can make a world of a difference.”

Humans are immensely adaptable—especially when driven by something as primal as companionship. For that reason, the coronavirus lockdown is also changing how we date, likely shifting our habits permanently.

Talking up someone at a bar—let alone finding someone through friends, family or work—can seem as quaint as a love sonnet or waiting for marriage to have sex. As online dating has become the new norm, a $6 billion-in-sales global industry has sprung up around it.

Some people get very upset with the idea that new technologies will create new harms and that we willingly surrender ourselves to these risks when we could adopt the precautionary principle

Another app on my phone, Google Lens, can also see discrete objects. It is already smart enough to identify the breed of a dog, the design of a shirt, or the species of a plant. Soon these functions will integrate.

When shoppers try such a service at home, they are “11 times more likely to buy,”

Eventually, everything will have a digital twin. This is happening faster than you may think. The home goods retailer Wayfair displays many millions of products in its online home-furnishing catalog, but not all of the pictures are taken in a photo studio

The first big technology platform was the web, which digitized information, subjecting knowledge to the power of algorithms; it came to be dominated by Google. The second great platform was social media, running primarily on mobile phones. It digitized people and subjected human behavior and relationships to the power of algorithms, and it is ruled by Facebook and WeChat.

Nearly all slept with their phone, putting it under their pillow, on the mattress, or at the very least within arm’s reach of the bed. They checked social media right before they went to sleep, and reached for their phone as soon as they woke up in the morning (they had to—all of them used it as their alarm clock). Their phone was the last thing they saw before they went to sleep and the first thing they saw when they woke up

These more dire consequences for teenage girls could also be rooted in the fact that they’re more likely to experience cyberbullying. Boys tend to bully one another physically, while girls are more likely to do so by undermining a victim’s social status or relationships. Social media give middle- and high-school girls a platform on which to carry out the style of aggression they favor, ostracizing and excluding other girls around the clock.

“I’ve seen my friends with their families—they don’t talk to them,” Athena told me. “They just say ‘Okay, okay, whatever’ while they’re on their phones. They don’t pay attention to their family.” Like her peers, Athena is an expert at tuning out her parents so she can focus on her phone.

The teen birth rate hit an all-time low in 2016, down 67 percent since its modern peak, in 1991

After two teens have “talked” for a while, they might start dating. But only about 56 percent of high-school seniors in 2015 went out on dates; for Boomers and Gen Xers, the number was about 85 percent.

There is compelling evidence that the devices we’ve placed in young people’s hands are having profound effects on their lives—and making them seriously unhappy.

today’s teens are physically safer than teens have ever been. They’re markedly less likely to get into a car accident and, having less of a taste for alcohol than their predecessors, are less susceptible to drinking’s attendant ills.

She told me she’d spent most of the summer hanging out alone in her room with her phone. That’s just the way her generation is, she said. “We didn’t have a choice to know any life without iPads or iPhones. I think we like our phones more than we like actual people.”

For me at least, Facebook would have crossed a moral red line if it had, for example, intentionally sold the data of its users to Cambridge Analytica with the full knowledge that company would use the data subversively to influence a democratic election. Likewise, Facebook would have crossed a red line if it had intentionally assisted in the dissemination of hate speech in Myanmar. But the evidence indicates that Facebook did not intend for those things to occur on its platform.

A significant amount of fake news can be found on Facebook, and for many users, Facebook has become a large echo chamber, where people merely seek out information that reinforces their views.

For one thing, Facebook can be time-consuming and addictive, to no fruitful end. In addition, as researchers have demonstrated, Facebook use can worsen depression and anxiety.

Historically, gig workers like Julie have not been eligible for unemployment benefits. But in March, the federal CARES Act extended Pandemic Unemployment Assistance to independent contractors such as gig workers (an outcome that Uber lobbied for). Julie added, “I don’t feel it would be anyone’s responsibility for my finances except myself. I am so grateful for the help, but I feel absolutely awful for having to take it. I would much rather be out driving people around and pointing out all the cool stuff and history of Cincinnati!”

Given the unemployment landscape we’re facing, however, we need to acknowledge and plan for the reality of a rapidly expanding gig economy. Instead of hoping in vain for gig employers to reclassify their workers as employees, we should accept that the gig model will only become more entrenched, and as such we should focus on expanding the temporary gains gig workers have seen during the pandemic into a permanent social safety net. This will likely necessitate corresponding changes in how companies that rely on gig workers, such as Uber, pay into that system. Uber has signaled their willingness to make compromises, such as supporting portable benefits, so if policymakers can meet them in the middle with a new model for taxing employers, it could create a more stable foundation for all gig businesses.

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"These companies have pocketed millions of dollars by leaving taxpayers to foot the bill. That's unacceptable," Herrera said. "There is no rule that prevents these drivers from continuing to have all of the flexibility they currently enjoy. Being properly classified as an employee doesn't change that."

The judge said Uber and Lyft have refused to comply with a California law passed last year that was supposed to make it harder for companies in the state to hire workers as contractors, so gig economy workers such as drivers for the ride-hailing companies would receive health insurance, workers' compensation and paid sick and family leave. As independent contractors, Uber and Lyft drivers are not provided these benefits.

Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman ruled Monday that Lyft and Uber's thousands of contract drivers should be given the same protections and benefits under labor law as other employees of the ride-hailing companies.

Things were about to get stranger still. Distinguished psychiatrists and scientists began to suggest, with considerable enthusiasm, that the program could play a valuable role in actually treating the ill and the disturbed. In an article in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, three prominent research psychiatrists wrote that ELIZA, with a bit of tweaking, could be "a therapeutic tool which can be made widely available to mental hospitals and psychiatric centers suffering a shortage of therapists."

If a person typed the sentence "I am very unhappy these days," the computer would need only know that the phrase "I am" typically comes before a description of the speaker's current situation or state of mind. The computer could then recast the sentence into the reply "How long have you been very unhappy these days?" The program worked, Weizenbaum explained, by first applying "a kind of template to the original sentence, one part of which matched the two words 'I am' and the remainder [of which] isolated the words 'very unhappy these days

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After his 25-year-old daughter was struck and killed in a hit and run last weekend, Cobbs Creek resident Cravante Reynolds wanted to fill the sky with her favorite colors

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Emoji originated in Japan in the late 1990s. Broadly inspired by manga, Chinese characters, and street signs, emoji were proposed as “a better way to incorporate images in the limited visual space available on cell phone screens” [16]. Developed by technical designer Shigetaka Kurita for the Japanese mobile company NNT DoCOMO’s I-mode mobile internet, 176 12 x 12 pixel images were released in 1999 and would become the foundation of what are now referred to as emoji (Galloway, 2016; Negishi, 2014)