We are in 2050, within the digital age.
we reside good citiesthe place all the things is interconnected via the Internet of Things (IoT).
The degree of crime has decreased dramatically.
Cameras (CCTV) outfitted with probably the most superior facial recognition know-how in addition to good sensor programs are put in in each nook. Drones and synthetic intelligence (AI) humanoid police robots patrolling streets and buildings. All are immediately associated.
Universities have been changed by AI faculties. Most organizations do not even have workers or bodily premises, being autonomous and powered by AI.
Businesses are all digital, inside a metaverse developed by synthetic firms.
There aren’t any extra handbook labor specialists, and fewer and fewer professions that require human intelligence. It’s synthetic intelligence-based mostly industrial robots that manufacture all the things.
People who not work, who characterize the overwhelming majority, obtain a single primary revenue supplied by the state.
This revenue is paid in central financial institution digital foreign money (CBDC), which is the one authorized tender.
People who nonetheless have jobs run digital enterprise actions within the metaverse from dwelling, the place they spend virtually all of their day (and evening). Jobs are all digital.
The metaverse is evolving and the road between Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (XR) is getting smaller and smaller.
The identical factor occurs with the road separating bodily actuality from digital actuality.
Mobile and wearable applied sciences (usually invisible) and even humanoid dwelling robots based mostly on synthetic intelligence assist us in our day by day duties.
In the choices we make, we’re supported by AI via voice assistants and even neural interface know-how to merge human consciousness with synthetic intelligence.
Basically, each time individuals make contact with the metaverse, a neural connection is initiated.
Digital sensory interplay has made individuals really feel increasingly more snug with the metaverse, which is the fact that new generations know greatest.
The fact is that there are usually not many alternatives to know one other actuality.
As a results of this digital life, persons are surrounded by cameras, microphones and sensors. Even from delivery, as a result of the event of the embryo takes place completely via synthetic incubators.
By the best way, many individuals want to create and develop affective or love relationships with humanoid dwelling robots based mostly on synthetic intelligence.
The home animals themselves have been changed by synthetic animals.
It’s all synthetic.
In addition, circulation is sort of restricted, primarily attributable to local weather and sustainability insurance policies. Detentions happen periodically all year long to mitigate the perceived human-precipitated environmental influence.
The autos are autonomous and unfold virtually over all the space. However, there may be solely public transport and rental automobiles out there. In normal, individuals would not have their very own technique of transport.
As a results of such local weather and sustainability insurance policies, personal possession disappeared a couple of years in the past, and these days all the things is a service. Including actual property.
Those who do not respect these guidelines see their social credit score scores drop, which may additional restrict their turnover.
People’s social credit score relies on their private, social, environmental {and professional} habits and even political decisions.
You have to have sufficient credit score to journey and even go away dwelling. No extra passports or citizen playing cards, only a digital ID.
If the sunshine on the entrance to the general public street or public transport provides a pink sign, there may be nothing left to do however go dwelling, as a result of it isn’t price complaining about robots…
Those who don’t respect the foundations can be fined mechanically by blocking their digital foreign money checking account or instantly withdrawing the funds related to the corresponding superb. Setting buy limits (by kind, worth and even amount) may also function further penalties.
The introduction of digital foreign money has actually made it attainable to mechanically impose fines via suspension, restriction and withdrawal of funds, whereas making tax evasion/fraud or cash laundering nearly not possible.
Except in a cubicle, public or personal area outfitted with its personal tools for the satisfaction of physiological wants and hygiene care (also referred to as a toilet or bathroom), individuals’s habits is monitored and evaluated wherever, together with the house; Including the usage of profanity.
Our personal ideas are usually not secure as a result of once we be a part of the metaversion and activate neural interface know-how, we turn out to be an open e-book.
Furthermore, we turn out to be potential targets for psychological manipulation and mind breaking. It has by no means been simpler for anybody to plant concepts and even ideologies in our heads. Literally.
How do we all know we’re nonetheless accountable for our aware psychological course of? More exactly, how do we all know that our earlier unconscious state will not be being manipulated?
Back to 2023. Is this the long run we’re (un)consciously and collectively constructing?