Less is More - The Shape of A.I.

You may have some inclination to the fact now that we have limitless possibilities for what avatars or characters one can become in virtual games. This limitlessness is a freedom -- a freedom of form.

All the forms that virtual characters can take, it is likely that such will be taken by robotic forms. The head is a place to start, from oval to star shaped, anything is really possible. Eyes can be small, big, or increase or decrease in number. Faces themselves can be altered freely. 

The freedom to change identities like this, doesn't stop at changing the form of the face but the whole skeletal model is capable of materializing into limitless structures.

Is there an ultimate freedom? Will human's one day create a being that can change into any form so suited for its intelligent selection? I think so. Could there one day be a machine like a "morph" that can just change at will? I think so. It raises a few questions about the nature of self-identity. Confusion of identity is quite possible. 

 Here the less the robots keep to a standard form the more they will be able to transform. Its definitely a suitable reality for the future of colonizing other planets.

Some Fancies of a Smart Home

What do you fancy about future home centered technology? Maybe you don't know what technologies are on the market or will exist in the near future. This blog introduces some concepts for future in home technologies. 

As computers become more compact and cheaper, we will observe their distribution more widely among the World of Things.

Smart Fridge --A smart fridge will have sensory devices (cameras) that detect (intelligently) all items, probably by reading codes on the edible and drinkable contents. It will have panels on it that add extra functionality, and may additionally be linked to a smartphone or smart home framework It might be possible to register your fridge with a market and have the fridge order commodities for you by itself (automatically) or by will. The Samsung smart fridge (2019) includes a very smart device, that can communicate with your phone, save images to the smart fridge, recognize faces, and relay voice messages. The fridge itself may one day have transparent glass, where the whole thing can be altered, not just the main touch panel.

Visit this video on smart fridges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U40ne9BQHqQ

Smart Bowl -- With ever advancing sensory intelligence one of our main utensils for eating will inevitably become smart. It will have 1) Calorie measure 2) Ingredient sensors 3) Weight and volume sensors. These can be employed and connected to a smart device. An app may be run to tell you how much of the food you should be eating to match your dietary needs.

Smart Toothbrush -- Once again intelligent sensory machines, that can sense down to the size of molecules will make their appearance in a toothbrush. If not a toothbrush than a scan of the mouth may be made into a functioning data gathering device. It will have the capacity to 1) Measure bacteria 2) Tell you how fresh your breath is. Other possibilities may exist.

Smart Toilet -- There are already devised toilets that can make a biological analysis of stool and urine. They are capable of predicting the likely hood of future illness, and will be a great ASSet in the future. Users will be able to link this information to a smart app, and will be directed into one’s smart home.

Smart shower -- On a personal note my brother wanted to invent a shower head that connects to soap deposits in the shower. I think this will be a future technology. Including this facial recognition to sense who one is, as to make it possible to set up a specific shower setting for the specific person. One invention, I liked recently, was the shower curtain that can hold devices and keep them away from being compromised by water. Changing light colors, shower curtain displays (as computers become thinner and cheaper), will be a highlight in future homes.

Smart Garage -- Working with robotic cars it might be in our future that our homes allow owned or borrowed vehicles to park inside a garage. If so, they may be connected to a robot that can put away or somehow help manage the work load involved with consumption. If you own a car or an air-car in the future it might park itself in the garage. The garage may include ways to wash your car, without having to take it to your local Jiffy-Lube washer.

All of these can be part of a smart home. They can be linked to a smart devices, so you can always check with your doctor or nutritionist about your dietary needs and your overall health. Of course, as written about in other articles, technology may advance so far as to make a doctor unneeded, replaced by a AI doctor that works specifically within one's smart home.

Check out these Smart Cups : https://amzn.to/3A4nzP6

The Future of "Robot Care".

What is "robot care" and where will we see a salience of robot care? First, robot care, is the use of any machine to assist in the living and performing behaviors of human beings. This means they can be anywhere doing anything that is considered assisting or caring for individuals. We start with the highest form of care, medical.

Hospitals -

Automation fit a gig of a nurse in a hospital. "Moxi" the robot can be programmed to run errands around the hospital. Right now it takes up 30% of errands ran ordinarily by nurses, but in the future it will become easy to increase that percentage. For more see the above video.

Home - I will not get into full details of smart homes here as they are a separate matter. I will however, conceptualize a little. Robot doctors can be in the home, where they take samples and read bio-feedbacks of human beings, sick or healthy. A robot at home doctor will be standard in a few years time.

Robot PETS - Robot pets will be entertaining human beings in the future. The best things about them are they need little training/programming, they do not exhaust resources, and they do not exude/have a organic metabolism. :D See this video for a talk on Robot Doctors : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yowQRy7x4EY&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3EtruXJwE3LmCvvNGRLMPJ0S8-PwYVk6yODTpBv0HaIZGlBqQwGXHRqpM

Hotels -

Japan has a robot run hotel. Hotels are low maintenance compared to some other more demanding occupations, and are thus easier to bring automation into (imo).

Stores -

In the robotic arena there will come robots that can stock shelves, assist in finding items, and identify spills and keep track of product stock.

Restaurants -  In this arena we'll be happy to be introduced to robots that serve, cook and clean. For more see the video below this short text.

As we have seen robot care is on the rise.

Be PR = PRO-ROBOT!

Some History and The Future of The Mobile Phone

While the transmission of speech by radio has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, mobile, and also capable of connecting to the standard telephone network are much more recent. The first such devices were barely portable compared to today's compact hand-held devices, and their use was clumsy.

Along with the process of developing a more portable technology, and a better interconnections system, drastic changes have taken place in both the networking of wireless communication and the prevalence of its use, with smartphones becoming common globally and a growing proportion of Internet access now done via mobile broadband.

The First automatic analog cellular systems deployed were NTT's system first used in Tokyo in 1979, later spreading to the whole of Japan, and NMT in the Nordic countries in 1981.

The first analog cellular system widely deployed in North America was the Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS). It was commercially introduced in the Americas in 13 October 1983, Israel in 1986, and Australia in 1987. AMPS was a pioneering technology that helped drive mass market usage of cellular technology, but it had several serious issues by modern standards. (wiki)

The phones seen in the above purple-blue back-ground image are phones that can bend around the wrist and are also extendable to be used as a regular phone is today. More advanced concepts exist such as the invention of a light display on the skin from a bracelet.

Projectors on skin? Why not? Large ones exist fully functional today 

In other articles I write on the future of televisions. These smart phone concepts might one day replace the use of TVs, as you could watch movies, and browse the internet just by touching a place on your arm. A step further even is making these phones multi-projectable, so as to project an interactable display on anything. Even more advanced would be a 3d display on your arm that you could feel or touch, but this concept is very unrealistic now as the technology stands.

Mixed with other technology competitively such as Circet with AR you can get more out of the experience from a head set than from a projection on your skin. Maybe the two will one day work in unison, but for now it is all up in the air.

The Camera and its Future Applications

A camera is an optical instrument use d to record images. At their most basic, cameras are sealed boxes (the camera body) with small holes (the aperture) that let light in to capture an image on a light-sensitive surface (usually photographic film or a digital sensor). Cameras have various mechanisms to control how the light falls onto the light-sensitive surface. Lenses focus the light entering the camera, the size of the aperture can be widened or narrowed to let more or less light into the camera, and a shutter mechanism determines the amount of time the photo-sensitive surface is exposed to the light.

The still image camera is the main instrument in the art of photography and captured images may be reproduced later as a part of the process of photography, digital imaging, photographic printing. The similar artistic fields in the moving image camera domain are film, videography, and cinematography.

The word camera comes from camera obscura, which means "dark chamber" and is the Latin name of the original device for projecting an image of external reality onto a flat surface. The modern photographic camera evolved from the camera obscura. The functioning of the camera is very similar to the functioning of the human eye. The first permanent photograph was made in 1825 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. (wiki)

Features of Future Cameras

1. Size - when making cameras now-a-days engineers are interested in packing more into little. A) Nano-bots will one day use nano-cameras and be used to record the internal workings of the body.

Smart Pills began making noise in 2001, when PillCam was the first ingestible camera to be approved by the FDA. By 2008, PillCams was used in more than 2 million medical procedures. There are also Dose Tracking Pills (although this raises some ethical questions) that include sensors logging patient data to a corresponding app. This log can be shared with doctors, family, and others. The Vibrant Capsule takes a more hands-on approach, promoting muscle contractions to jumpstart digestion. This list goes on: https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/news/infographic-nanobots-and-nanotech-deliver-medicines-future/ B) On phones camera equipment will get smaller and smaller, possibly to the point where the camera lens is not even visible on the phone.

2. Range - A) 360 cameras are designed to take videos that are than used by viewers to have a 360 degree view of what was filmed. B) Drones and cameras make it possible for simple aerial views. C) Resolution - Our telescopes and other outer-space tech. have cameras on them that can take resolute photos of distant celestial bodies. Cameras of the future will be more telescopic, allowing us to take high resolution pictures of the moon, and even the planets. This however is a digression into the telescope technology field.

3. Other applications - The use of camera doesn't stop there. Cameras can be used to make 3digitial images inside phones, computers, and gaming systems. One may be able to create a real-time virtual avatar of themselves or of things or people they take pictures of, using the consequences of future camera technology.

Check out this interesting article on nano-cams : https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/news/infographic-nanobots-and-nanotech-deliver-medicines-future/

Gaming Systems and Their Predecessors

 A video game console is a computer device that outputs a video signal or visual image to display a video game that one or more people can play.

The term "video game console" is primarily used to distinguish a console machine primarily designed for consumers to use for playing video games, in contrast to arcade machines or home computers. An arcade machine consists of a video game computer, display, game controller (joystick, buttons, etc.) and speakers housed in large or small chassis. A home computer is a personal computer designed for home use for a variety of purposes, such as bookkeeping, accessing the Internet and playing video games. While arcades and computers are generally expensive or highly "technical" devices, video game consoles were designed with affordability and accessibility to the general public in mind.

Unlike similar consumer electronics such as music players and movie players, which use industry-wide standard formats, video game consoles use proprietary formats which compete with each other for market share.

There are various types of video game consoles, including home video game consoles, handheld game consoles, microconsoles and dedicated consoles. Although Ralph Baer had built working game consoles by 1966, it was nearly a decade before the Pong game made them commonplace in regular people's living rooms. Through evolution over the 1990s and 2000s, game consoles have expanded to offer additional functions such as CD players, DVD players, Blu-ray disc players, web browsers, set-top boxes and more.(WIKI)

5 Factors of Gaming Performance

1. Graphics - The graphic detail in games is progressive, improving are the realistic scenes, environments, and environmental scenarios.

2. A.I. - The intelligence of enemy and companion players is also progressive, improving are the possible interactions during combat or communication.

3. Characterization - The ability to create character you can play with is a factor of specific games, the other factors mentioned just add to its realism.

4. Environment Size - In game environment can be massive. Just take a look at a game called "No Man's Sky." This game as some 10 quit. planets to explore. More games like this will exist in the future with massive environments. New games are promised to be open world, having solar systems, or maps that replicate those of the Earth (as in Crew). 

5, Massive Multiplayer - Some games are still only single player, but how much more fun is it to play a game with actual people on the other side, engaging and interacting with? Games like the casual "Second Life" and the more combative strategic game World of Warcraft are like this.

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. Applications of virtual reality can include entertainment (i.e. video games) and educational purposes (i.e. medical or military training). Other, distinct types of VR style technology include augmented reality and mixed reality. (wiki)

Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory. (wiki) For the next generation of AR gear see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqFqtAJMtYE

The 3 Features of VR and AR

1. Size - 1) The size of the glasses one can now wear are moderately small but we could be looking towards a future where the size of this technology becomes as small as a contact lens. 2) The size of virtual environments is also important. We could imagine that there will be a digital world overlaping our own, a network with virtual potential experiences embedded into that environment, or layered/virtual dimension.

2. Graphics - Right now most of the graphics for AR are poor. We should see them become ever more realistic. 

3.  Smartness - Augmented Reality will be able to interact with smart cities. Walking down a city street you might see digital advertisements designed and presented to you based on your personal preferences and market interests.

Virtual headsets are next generation technology. They make the gaming experience far more immersive. Eventually, there will be a new technology, that allows for complete immersion into a virtual world.

We may ask ourselves, as some people who purport the idea do, "are we living in a simulation right now?" Are the realities that we creating just abstractions from some absolute interface where only some many technologies, similar as they are, can exist? For more on the "Simulation Hypothesis" see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlTKTTt47WE

The Future of the TV and its Predecessors

On March 25, 1925, Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department Store in London. Since human faces had inadequate contrast to show up on his primitive system, he televised a talking, moving ventriloquist's dummy named "Stooky Bill", whose painted face had higher contrast. By January 26, 1926, he had demonstrated the transmission of an image of a face in motion by radio. This is widely regarded as the first television demonstration in history. (1)

With the advent of the internet, Televisions have become smarter. But what do we mean when we say a technology has become smarter? It is fundamentally an input output device, where the number of these possibilities or interactions gauge its "smartness." The television can be connected to all kinds of devices, even those that don't exist yet, like Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology.

In the future Televisions will be:

1) Smarter, meaning they will be connected to more tech systems and offer far more interactions. You will be able to have a phone or computer interact with the television itself.

2) Thinner. All visual display systems can become ultra thin, paper thin, so thin that they can be used as wall-paper. So in the future we will have televisions that are really wall-screens. Like all our screen technology, they will eventually become foldable. Even more advanced they will be able to contract and expand. So you may take a phone device and stretch it to fit your wall, or a wall device and shrink it to become a "phone device." Foldables are in the works. Check out this youtube video on the advancement of foldableness made in china: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZpP2BzNgQc

3) Wider displays. Right now we have city buildings that have large TV displays. In the future it will be feasible to have even more televisions set up on buildings.

4) Multi-Applicable. When screens become paper thin they may be put on anything. One might even wear a "screen mask" to project a visual display of a desired face. Outfits may be screen like, fabric made into a visual displays.

But will Tv screens still exist in the future, with the advent of Augmented and Virtual reality devices? I think yes they will. They will exist along side of them -- just as the micro-wave didn't make the oven obsolete. Eventually, though TV might be made dormant by more advanced technology, such as 3d holograms. Holograms are the next step in visual display advancements.For a look at the future of 3d holograms click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWP-NL3Lck

Holograms will be able to be projected and displayed, taking up 2d and 3d space. They will also become more haptic (touch sensitive).

Now if we combine all three of these technologies: BCI, Screen and Holographic display: we can conceive of world so alterable by the mind that it ultimately becomes the will which controls a digital world. 3d digital beings become interactable and can transition from our 3d world into their own world, (THE TV!< Getting "The Ring" vibes here?) be it also in the net or a digital virtual reality. Unlocking the ultimate technologies in the technological interface starts with such digital technologies as the TV.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television