Humanity is edging ever-closer to extinction, however don’t fear — the tech lords have deigned to save lots of us.
Elon Musk, as an example, needs to take us to a Martian colony. Positive, many will perish on the journey, however the survivors can get pleasure from a nightmarish existence, which they’ll fund by indentured labor on the hellscape.
Sure. There will probably be quite a lot of jobs on Mars!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 17, 2020
Greetings humanoids
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Peter Thiel, in the meantime, will lengthen kids’s lives by giving them blood transfusions. Wait, that’s not fairly proper — he truly plans to inject himself with kids’s blood. The youngsters will all flip anemic, however not less than he’ll stay eternally. (For the report, Thiel denies being a vampire.)
Jeff Bezos, however, is specializing in repairing the atmosphere. The area botherer has created the modestly-named Bezos Earth Fund, which might reverse a fraction of the injury performed by Amazon.
All these big-brain concepts are clearly good, however a brand new pitch for our survival might surpass all of them: Tamagotchi kids.
For anybody fortunate sufficient to not bear in mind the cursed creatures, Tamagotchis had been digital pets encased in LCD shows that homeowners tried to maintain alive. They had been a giant deal within the 90s, like the Macarena and white canine poop.
In a possible harbinger of what’s to come back, they usually die shortly. The typical lifespan of a well-cared-for Tamagochi is a mere 12 days.
They’ve nonetheless impressed a imaginative and prescient of the long run for our species: elevating digital kids.
Catriona Campbell, a behavioral psychologist and UX knowledgeable, describes these digital children because the”Tamagotchi technology.”
“We’re already properly on our option to creating the Tamagotchi technology which, for all intents and functions, will probably be ‘actual’ to their dad and mom,” Campbell stated in extracts of her new guide shared by the Telegraph.
“On the idea that client demand is there, which I believe it is going to be, AI kids will turn into extensively out there for a comparatively small month-to-month payment.”
They’ll be vague from these in the true world
The low value of digital children isn’t their solely promoting level. Campbell believes they may additionally resolve the overstated drawback of overpopulation.
She envisions digital infants with photo-realistic our bodies, simulated emotional responses, and AI-powered interactive capabilities. Naturally, they’ll stay in “the metaverse.”
“Digital kids could look like a large leap from the place we at the moment are,” she wrote, “however inside 50 years, expertise may have superior to such an extent that infants which exist within the metaverse are vague from these in the true world.”
“Because the metaverse evolves, I can see digital kids turning into an accepted and totally embraced a part of society in a lot of the developed world.”
I, for one, really feel we should always embrace our future digital children — and our digital grandkids after them. In the event that they disappoint us, we will at all times hit the reset button.
