200 years ago, it was 1823. No cars, no tech, no nothing. What an insane change. If people from 1823 time traveled to now, they wouldn’t even be able to comprehend what’s going on.
Right! I think of my Pioneer ancestry when I just walk in a supermarket! They would freak out to see so much abundant food and clothes! I've always wanted to switch someone's place and live for a while during that time period with the knowledge I have and let that other person enjoy what we have. I love you comment.
The direction of this conversation shows why science fiction is important, because it gives us an opportunity to think about where we are going and the implication of it. There is a great quote that I’m paraphrasing that “The job of a science fiction author is to observe the rise of cars, derive the drive-in theater and then predict the sexual revolution”. We are almost certainly going to be wrong 99% of the time, but it keeps us in check.
I would love a part 2 to this discussing things like health science, space travel, future in a negative aspect (war, natural disasters, climate change)
Yes! Bio tech is amazing. They were talking about the contacts and I've seen so many ideas for them that would be great and Skizz seems to have a good mind about this stuff
I think critical thinking is a skill that is missing from a lot of people. The emotional reaction becomes the only way many know how to respond. So many forget we can't always control our feelings and just because we feel a certain way doesn't me it's true(i.e. I feel stupid so I must be stupid...) stopping a moment and considering all sides is really a lost art. My favorite quote. Bad news: you cannot make people like, love, understand, validate accept or be nice to you. You can't control them either Good news: it doesn't matter.
Hey y'all -- someone younger here, just want to share my thoughts. This conversation shows something that I'm worried about with a lot of older people -- and this is nothing against you, I promise! I just want to mention it for some thoughts. WHen discussing these things, a lot of hopes and dreams were based on the current status quo, and a lot of fears were based off a small amount of experiences from what the media and internet tells you. For example -- AVs, the potential of autonomous vehicles you discussed still maintains the "Car-based" standard. Imagine the potential if that technology was applied to buses, trams, and trains instead? Rather than any cars, every "main street" had an autonomous bus running down it, and then the side streets were pedestrianized. Imagine! You don't need to keep things as they are. Same with the "cancelling" discussion -- what do you think happens when someone is "cancelled"? THat's a term people created to say "Any criticism given to me is actually cancelling me and stealing my livelihood" -- people still have the same platforms and everything as before, they just get criticized and dpeople can't handle that. Same with the "parental technology restrictions" -- why not just have a conversation with your kid? "Hey, you understand why we want to have this on your device, right? Trying to protect you" and if they're mature enough they'll say yes. Tell them, "When you think that you're safe enough or mature enough to keep yourself safe, I trust that you will do that, and I'll remove this. And if you feel unsafe, or want it back, I'll put it back". Kids are remarkably good at keeping themselves safe, once they pass a certain point of maturity, and letting them have that control is a big point of development. Just remember to think outside the box -- when social media and the news try to scare people, it's my parents and their friends and teachers who suffer. Younger people have different concerns, in different ways, because we identify what's "fear mongering" or "fostering negativity". I feel bad because my parents can't see a positive future anymore, and so they just don't try to fix the climate or fix the news or improve things, they just say "I hope we'll figure it out". That's all, haha
I was in the Air Force during Y2K, I was stationed in Korea and worked on F-16s, at 1201am, we were all working, running tests on every aircraft, every computer system. At the time I was 22 years old and I spent the millennium working, was such a bummer.
In 1962, in his book “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible”, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated his famous Three Laws, of which the third law is the best-known and most widely cited: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. I always love the thought experiment of this stuff. Even looking back at the things that were "introduced" in Star Trek that came to fruition today is amazing.
I can imagine watching a day in someone's life could REALLY be useful for career prospecting. Certain people in every career option can opt in and have people view what a week in the career is actually like. It could be viewable in 3 week chunks, similar to an online course. They could turn off the mic / camera and add a disclaimer for confidential information, but otherwise, it could really help give an actual feel of the work environment.
A lot of what has become popular tech is convenience based. Some is what is needed, but ask any marketing person what is easier to sell and they will tell you: it makes the person's life easier. With regards to AR, I expect more stuff like what Skizz proposed: -Repair manuals for products -Recipies that show ingredient portions and show how to prepare them -Pingable waypoint lines for directions like in video games That sort of thing more than anything else.
That opening question, absolutely could lead into the technology discussion. If you believe AI would have the potential to wipe out humanity then it could be. Time to hide from all large population centers, retreating to the wilds, and have to wrestle a coyote, and hopefully not a bear.
I would like to see the Ready Player One technology happen in regards to education. I want every child, everywhere, to be able to get the best education possible regardless of location, economic situation, disability, etc. No more education disparity. I want adults to be able to advance degrees, learn new job skills, etc. We have the internet at our fingertips, there is no excuse for people to be uneducated now, right this minute. What holds people back is the ability to access that information and the help they need to learn the things they need to learn. I want to level the playing field with education and everyone to have the opportunity to learn and grow
This episode resulted in me having a mild crisis in not one, but TWO art galleries. Good job, guys, you brought a lot of my fears and worries right back to the surface.
Speaking of IOT (Internet of Things) stuff... Where I work we make custom air handlers, and we are able to create remote access with them. My office in is Ontario and we have a unit in British Columbia that I can literally log into and see it run on graphics and turn it on/off, change setpoints, etc from my desk. When they run a super critical processes like a lab or cleanroom it's great for customer support. We're eventually even looking into AI to monitor stuff like valves and fans and be able to tell you when something is going to fail based on algorithms and stuff. The futures pretty cool.
The parameters given for the intro question were BIGGEST animal, not toughest. With home field advantage, it would be pretty darn easy to beat a whale. 🤷♀️ Skizz should play Soma Skizz just casually dropping the fact that he conceptualized the AR program that we use to help us put furniture together 😂 There's some funny and relevant vfx videos featuring the Boston Dynamics robots (I just edited my thoughts into this comment as I listened cuz they always have so many little discussions worth a comment and I didn't want to leave a million comments)
The Y2K fear was not unfounded. It seemed like a nothing burger because a TON of people worked their butts off to make sure that it went smoothly. It was all hands on deck where I worked at the time and it *would* have been a major mess but for the hard work that was put in. But, hey - nothing happened, so no big deal. I’m sure we’ll all be doing the same thing again when 2038 rolls around.
Your totally making me think of my favourite book series! Its called Uglies, Pretties, Specials, Extras (4 books) 📚 I love them so much. I read them religiously! Theyre based in the future after a gas spore kills all gas in the universe. I highly highly recommend reading! They call us the rusties! Lol Such a rollercoaster of a read! 🎉
Always enjoy these podcasts, and this is a fun topic! As a space nerd, I like to think of our presence outside of the planet expanding -- a colony on the moon, trips to Mars, etc. Things we're already working towards. I'd love to think these come to fruition and even more beyond that.
27:32 the talk of contacts and social media streaming really reminds me of the uglies book series, specifically the 4th book in it called extras, which focuses exactly on a future where these things are happening with people streaming their lives and not contacts but iirc implants in their eyes but it has people doing fad such as "radical honesty" and a bunch of others things. there's a lot more going on in the series and i haven't read it in a number of years but the social media aspects really stuck with me. its a very fantastical world but is rooted enough that a lot of it is a believable possibility.
One interesting thing you guys are probably missing out on is how much technology will become obsolete. Right now we talk about cars doing things on their own, but what if cars are basically obsolete in less than 100 years because we have a new form of travel that is significantly better? This plays off your comments about unforseen consequences. The effects of "filters" on people's self image. GPS built into cars allows for invasion of privacy and insurance to punish clients for minor infractions. And don't get me started on the misuse of drones. That said, all of these technologies have also had useful and largely beneficial contributions. But why don't people use Polaroids as much anymore? Those were going to be the future of cameras and had incredible possibilities. Why are trains suffering as a dying industry? There's a lot to think about and unpack... But there's a point at which i think trying to predict things we haven't seen yet isn't nearly as valuable as trying to look at what we have and are working on today and what the possible impact is, both positive and negative. Those predictions will be much more useful, IMO
All I can think about whenever future tech is brought up is "do you want a break from the ads"? And the implications of ads and commercials showing up on your eyes, headset, etc.
I love this topic! One of my favorite authors has covered so much of this, Robert Heinlein, he was a future tech/scifi genius. His book The Moon is a Harsh Mistress has a lot of AI stuff... no spoilers! It is probably in my top 10 all time reads!
Hey Impulse and Skizz, this was a fun topic, maybe it’s worth coming back to again someday to try a predict more of what’s to come. When you were talking about extending human life, I’ve thought on that before but I’ve tended to think about side consequences that might occur from it. And so far these ideas stuck out in my mind the most that would have a great impact. I thought about the idea of people being able to copyright IP like content, or maybe for a thing that was invented. Because with copyright the law around the world with IP is it’s the life of the author + x amount of years, before it becomes part of the public domain unless you get it renewed. So if life can be extended and humans could live 150-200 years then it will be a long time before we will see the rights to anything made today. Another thing I thought was also when you get a mortgage for a house how you could have 100+ year mortgages, and you could spend over a lifetime to pay off a house at a cheaper rate. Because it’s spread over so long And that thought also got me thinking about Compound interest, and how what if you would be alive long enough to have the same investment you made 200 years ago be your source of income that it’s paying you 50x over that you wouldn’t have to work (not to earn money anyway) and your interest is earning interest. Also you guys spoke about Back to the Future 2, but there was something I think you both overlooked from that movie that we have nowadays, and it’s so commonplace that it would have been hard to believe it ever could have been futuristic at the time. That one part of the movie where Biff pays the cab driver with a digital credit card that was basically PayWave. I had to remind myself that, that wasn’t even a thing yet. And there it is. Also something I’ve come to realise about Black Mirror, which I think makes the show quite fascinating to watch, it’s never the technologies fault, it’s always the people’s fault as to why things go wrong. The technology just does what it’s meant to do, it’s these humans that come in with their emotions and agendas that make things take a dark turn for the worst I think. (Also Skizz, you might have seen it already, I’m guessing you have, but since you spoke about Boston Dynamics, you should watch Black Mirror’s MetalHead, I think you could enjoy that one)
The scary part of AI for me is not the technology itself it’s the people programming it. I am not trying to say devs are malicious but they do look at their product and projects in the best case scenarios. As Skiz described all it takes is bad parameters and you can have a system that is Wildly different than intended.
In relation to what skizz was saying about the robot dog "taking over" and interpreting someone pushing it as a threat and all of that I would suggest looking into the stop button problem in the AI field which directly relates to that
This was a great episode! Always intriguing to hear how other people see the future going, especially on a range of concepts like that. Would be interesting to see a lightning round style in this vein with a list of different topics, then each person gives their best case scenario/vision in that field, and then their worst scenario/vision of how that field could go.
At the end of the Podcast, there was talk about a device that could translate language for you. Such device exists. "Translating Earbuds" :D Found this out a few hours ago when scrolling through YT Shorts.
As a swede I always find it funny how consistent the american mix up of Sweden and Switzerland is. Not like lol funny, but it's an interesting quirk you know?
great topic! and needed for me at this time😂 i need to desing a robot of some kind and i was brainstorming but havent really got any ideas, u helped me alot with this podcast, got me inspired😊 cant wait for the next week, thank u guys!
One thing I always have in my mind is how the smartphones would improve. Would it be thin? Would there be one camera instead of multiple? Or the smartphones would be like you say in mixed reality?
movies/ shows they mentioned (i think i missed some): Wall-E, Back to the Future, Ready Player 1, Minority Report, Matrix, The Truman Show, Black Mirror, Jurassic Park my recommendations: The Good Place, Fallout.
Skizz and Impuse would enjoy watching Psycho-Pass (Its anime), season 1. It dives into the same realm of how augmented reality could affect everyday life. To the point where the system can tell if someone is about to commit a crime and alert the authorities. But what's really interesting is thinking about how people would react to a crime, someone being hurt, if you live in a society where there is almost no crime. Would people think its fake? It also dives into the idea of putting too much stock in mental health 'cures' which turns people into vegetables in the show.
Surprised you guys didn't plug your appearance on Jack & Kris. It was randomly suggested to me (maybe through the power of the internet since I watched Zed on this podcast). Thoroughly enjoyed both episodes!
Having myself as my own assistant would be bad. I'm lazy and disorganized, it wouldn't go well. I also tend to overthink things, so my assistant would be driven insane long before the point where it would useful in any way
You were talking about giant pranks at one point. That would be a great topic. Epic pranks that have or could happen. Example War of the Worlds radio show back in the day that terrified masses.
It’s really interesting to hear your thoughts about using drone to help fight fires. Using them as a live update system for wind control and hot spot investigation is really fascinating especially as climate conditions evolve. It’s also fascinating to look at from an ecological perspective because there are several ecosystems that are reliant on regular burning to stay healthy so that they don’t get excessive undergrowth build up to cause some of the large scale devastation that we see today. Regardless, more data is always good! Thanks for another amazin episode!
Y2K was all fine BECAUSE a LOT of people made sure that it was fine. Lots of people wrote a little bit of code and lots of people went around installing that little bit of code in computers around the world. I know because I was part of a team that did this. I installed the software update in computers in hospitals and pathology labs in Australian regional areas, along with a whole lot of other people. There was a problem, it was addressed, that's the reason it was all fine. Not because it wasn't an issue (it was an issue).
I think the movie that Impulse was trying to connect with references to Ready Player One and Wall-E - 2009 Bruce Willis "Surrogates" explored a whole angle of people getting too into something that wasn't real.
An intresting idea for a podcast is how ya'll voices have developt during the years. I'm new to the content creating thing and all the podcasts has helpt me keep inspired to do more and use my voice .
The general rule is that people tend to massively overestimate the change in the near future (aka Back to the Future), and massively underestimate the amount of change over the longer term. The guy who said there'd only be four computers was in a world that had absolutely no concept of the internet. Computers for him were just efficient calculators, not communication tools. We, today, have absolutely no concept of how future technologies are going to completely change our way of life and society. So what we do is we project and extend current technologies, usually massively overestimating just how fast and how far these technologies will be extended because we don't know what the disruptor is going to do and make our extended tech vision obsolete. As a side note, the reason everything was "all fine" when the year 2000 hit was because various institutions had spent thousands of man hours and millions of dollars getting in and adjusting critical code and systems.
Interesting book on this is Physics of the future from Michio Kaku. He extrapolates from today's technology, current research into the next 50 to 100 years.
My prediction is that not only will we be able to transport objects in a blink of an eye like 'beam me up scotty', but everyone will have a POD: private orbital device. But it won't be perfected yet, and we will still have to call in our destination to be coordinated and linked up.
I would honestly love to see the data behind Skizz's AR thing. Like, the feedback and questions people had. Their reactions. So I could analyze it from a sociological perspective and theorize how that kind of technology could affect society and individuals
What a great podcast episode really loved the topic, just thinking about the augmented reality made me want Phasmo in like an escape room themed building and how awesome that would be
When it comes to flying cars, I believe we will get there, but it'll be at the sacrifice of the steering wheel and individual control. Considering the time and money it takes to get a pilots license and air traffic controller navigation. Regulating the flying vehicles are the challenge and ensuring humans can avoid being stupid in them is what's holding it up. Private companies have made flying vehicles for years, but production for the masses won't occur until its fully autonomous.
I always love listening to this podcast while I write! Your conversation at the 42-minute mark about monitoring children's texts-discord messages caught my attention. Do you have a good place to submit questions/topics of discussion? I'd love to ask your opinions, both as parents and as content creators, about monitoring the media kids consume when there is not only far more media for kids to consume, but also easier access to said media without parental intervention?
You guys should read Scythe, it is a book series that covers an advanced world where everyone is bow immortal and death has become problem. I’ve been on an dystopian reading kick and is is by far one of my favorites!
Before AI, it was Terminator, before that it was Frankenstein, before that clock work men, before that golems, all the way back to totems in ancient Egypt. The fear of being destroyed by our hubris, or as payment for our ambition in building a better future. A very human fear but perhaps not directly rational.
The future will most likely be like Surrogates but in space. The movie is from 2009 but based on the 2005-2006 comic book series. We will be working remotely but also in person, future going to be strange
Love the episode! But I feel you are just ignoring the home court advantage. If you fight a shark on land it couldn't move easily and you could just hit it's back with a stick until it suffocated?
The talk of avatar gave me an idea I'd love to happen in the future: Give me the possibility to create my own lifelike robot based on the fictional character I'm in love with. That would solve so many problems. :)
I love the idea of the Hololens but they are SO expensive! Ha ha, there are plenty of movies showing us why AI could possibly be a problem! We have limited our kids screen time and they HATE us for it! lol It's funny! When they tell us that it invades their privacy we tell them that it's our job to get them to adulthood and so we have to monitor everything they do to keep them safe!
that part, @28:00 mins in, I got familiar with that creator when that issue came up in my feed. Remembering that I used to watch them back a decade ago, and it's such a sad thing to see that the reason they do that is to make "faster content" and getting "more views". They claim it will be "the future" of content creation. Kinda scary to think that you'll allow yourself, your whole being, voice and personality to be put into an AI that you made that will inevitably replaces the "You" people once used to follow and had loved. And I don't want to see that while I'm still living in this world. I'll still forever follow the likes of you, Imp and Skizz on the internet content creation. No AI will ever make me not want to watch you guys.
They already have fake keyboards where you just tap your fingers on a desk or whatever. I hate that idea, I like to be able to feel the keys move under my fingers (plus how will you know if you start to slide off the home keys a bit?). But if I could input text without typing at all (and also without speaking out loud) I'd be happy enough with that, I think. Some applications of new technology get ridiculous, though. Touch sensitive controls for absolutely everything, for instance, which means you can't *feel* for the button and have to be looking (hate that in cars), and also that you might trigger it accidentally by brushing against it (like keeps happening with my earbuds)
I really enjoyed this one! AI is something I didn’t really have a problem with until recently. AI has evolved some much that it is generating artwork, which is infuriating! As an artist, I cannot express how angry it makes me to see AI generated art. The whole point of art is for people to appreciate the amount of work the artist put into it, the hours upon hours of dedication it took to create it. And for it all to be replaced by a computer that take 2 seconds is terrible!! It loses all value!! I know people will argue, “Now you don’t have to spend hours to create a beautiful art piece. It’s done for you.” I like spending hours creating a beautiful art piece! That’s the joy in being an artist!! That’s my take on it. Sorry for rambling. Loved the episode!! Also, I never get tired of watching the little delivery robots roam around ASU. They are so cute and funny!
The whole point of art is *definitely not* for people to appreciate the amount of work/time that went into it. The value of art is in no way tied to the amount of time it took. The point of art is to express emotion, ideas, thoughts etc. Which is why "art" made by AI is pointless and it's why it feels soulless.
Yeah that too. It’s just how I feel about it. When I see art, I like to take the time to appreciate the time it took to make it. Again this is just my take on it
@@TreeWars The VFX unionizing is more about vfx artists being asked to meet insane deadlines working crazy hours for no extra pay. AI is nowhere close to being able to do vfx work.
You have to go big with the animal you fight. Human gets the home field advantage so sea creatures are on land? I'm going Blue Whale. Largest animal and all I have to do is stand there for a few minutes and wait for gravity to do the rest.
So when we going in together to start up this get away business? Seriously though. Love the podcast, every one I listen too I want to comment 100 times my thoughts as you go along lol. Keep up the good work fellas.
Biggest animal, you having field advantage? Great White Shark, easy 😂 i dont have to do much, do i? I just have to stay a few feet apart and continues to poke it until it asphyxiates on land...
200 years ago, it was 1823. No cars, no tech, no nothing. What an insane change. If people from 1823 time traveled to now, they wouldn’t even be able to comprehend what’s going on.
Right! I think of my Pioneer ancestry when I just walk in a supermarket! They would freak out to see so much abundant food and clothes! I've always wanted to switch someone's place and live for a while during that time period with the knowledge I have and let that other person enjoy what we have. I love you comment.
I want someone to animate impulse fighting a coyote
No, a bear
He starts by fighting a coyote and wins, then loses to a bear cub.
My first instinct was that I should draw Skizz getting whooped by the turtle.
This should obviously be the ‘Stream Starting’ animation from now on.
@@LieutenantRancidyes please
The direction of this conversation shows why science fiction is important, because it gives us an opportunity to think about where we are going and the implication of it.
There is a great quote that I’m paraphrasing that “The job of a science fiction author is to observe the rise of cars, derive the drive-in theater and then predict the sexual revolution”. We are almost certainly going to be wrong 99% of the time, but it keeps us in check.
Agreed 💯
I would love a part 2 to this discussing things like health science, space travel, future in a negative aspect (war, natural disasters, climate change)
Yes! Bio tech is amazing. They were talking about the contacts and I've seen so many ideas for them that would be great and Skizz seems to have a good mind about this stuff
Dude skizz is really good at creating new tech ideas both of those were really smart and would be incredibly helpful to the world
I think critical thinking is a skill that is missing from a lot of people. The emotional reaction becomes the only way many know how to respond. So many forget we can't always control our feelings and just because we feel a certain way doesn't me it's true(i.e. I feel stupid so I must be stupid...) stopping a moment and considering all sides is really a lost art.
My favorite quote. Bad news: you cannot make people like, love, understand, validate accept or be nice to you. You can't control them either
Good news: it doesn't matter.
Imp is hella confident "I think I could take a bear" haha
Bears are widely known as the most deadly animal in 1v1 fights
@@epicthiefbcz way too many ppl get into fights with bears thinking they can beat them
Hey y'all -- someone younger here, just want to share my thoughts. This conversation shows something that I'm worried about with a lot of older people -- and this is nothing against you, I promise! I just want to mention it for some thoughts.
WHen discussing these things, a lot of hopes and dreams were based on the current status quo, and a lot of fears were based off a small amount of experiences from what the media and internet tells you. For example -- AVs, the potential of autonomous vehicles you discussed still maintains the "Car-based" standard. Imagine the potential if that technology was applied to buses, trams, and trains instead? Rather than any cars, every "main street" had an autonomous bus running down it, and then the side streets were pedestrianized. Imagine! You don't need to keep things as they are.
Same with the "cancelling" discussion -- what do you think happens when someone is "cancelled"? THat's a term people created to say "Any criticism given to me is actually cancelling me and stealing my livelihood" -- people still have the same platforms and everything as before, they just get criticized and dpeople can't handle that.
Same with the "parental technology restrictions" -- why not just have a conversation with your kid? "Hey, you understand why we want to have this on your device, right? Trying to protect you" and if they're mature enough they'll say yes. Tell them, "When you think that you're safe enough or mature enough to keep yourself safe, I trust that you will do that, and I'll remove this. And if you feel unsafe, or want it back, I'll put it back". Kids are remarkably good at keeping themselves safe, once they pass a certain point of maturity, and letting them have that control is a big point of development.
Just remember to think outside the box -- when social media and the news try to scare people, it's my parents and their friends and teachers who suffer. Younger people have different concerns, in different ways, because we identify what's "fear mongering" or "fostering negativity". I feel bad because my parents can't see a positive future anymore, and so they just don't try to fix the climate or fix the news or improve things, they just say "I hope we'll figure it out". That's all, haha
I was in the Air Force during Y2K, I was stationed in Korea and worked on F-16s, at 1201am, we were all working, running tests on every aircraft, every computer system. At the time I was 22 years old and I spent the millennium working, was such a bummer.
Peacocks are mean SOBs at times, be careful Impulse
Yep! When I heard impulse say "peacock" I instantly went "hahah noO"
In 1962, in his book “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible”, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated his famous Three Laws, of which the third law is the best-known and most widely cited: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. I always love the thought experiment of this stuff. Even looking back at the things that were "introduced" in Star Trek that came to fruition today is amazing.
Or even comics. Dick Tracy, with the tech watches.
I can imagine watching a day in someone's life could REALLY be useful for career prospecting.
Certain people in every career option can opt in and have people view what a week in the career is actually like.
It could be viewable in 3 week chunks, similar to an online course.
They could turn off the mic / camera and add a disclaimer for confidential information, but otherwise, it could really help give an actual feel of the work environment.
A lot of what has become popular tech is convenience based.
Some is what is needed, but ask any marketing person what is easier to sell and they will tell you: it makes the person's life easier.
With regards to AR, I expect more stuff like what Skizz proposed:
-Repair manuals for products
-Recipies that show ingredient portions and show how to prepare them
-Pingable waypoint lines for directions like in video games
That sort of thing more than anything else.
Yay another imp and skizz podcast!
That opening question, absolutely could lead into the technology discussion. If you believe AI would have the potential to wipe out humanity then it could be. Time to hide from all large population centers, retreating to the wilds, and have to wrestle a coyote, and hopefully not a bear.
I would like to see the Ready Player One technology happen in regards to education. I want every child, everywhere, to be able to get the best education possible regardless of location, economic situation, disability, etc. No more education disparity. I want adults to be able to advance degrees, learn new job skills, etc. We have the internet at our fingertips, there is no excuse for people to be uneducated now, right this minute. What holds people back is the ability to access that information and the help they need to learn the things they need to learn. I want to level the playing field with education and everyone to have the opportunity to learn and grow
This episode resulted in me having a mild crisis in not one, but TWO art galleries. Good job, guys, you brought a lot of my fears and worries right back to the surface.
I have a great topic idea for you guys, Do a flashback about stuff from the 90's. tv shows you watched and toys and games you remember.
Speaking of IOT (Internet of Things) stuff... Where I work we make custom air handlers, and we are able to create remote access with them. My office in is Ontario and we have a unit in British Columbia that I can literally log into and see it run on graphics and turn it on/off, change setpoints, etc from my desk. When they run a super critical processes like a lab or cleanroom it's great for customer support. We're eventually even looking into AI to monitor stuff like valves and fans and be able to tell you when something is going to fail based on algorithms and stuff. The futures pretty cool.
The parameters given for the intro question were BIGGEST animal, not toughest. With home field advantage, it would be pretty darn easy to beat a whale. 🤷♀️
Skizz should play Soma
Skizz just casually dropping the fact that he conceptualized the AR program that we use to help us put furniture together 😂
There's some funny and relevant vfx videos featuring the Boston Dynamics robots
(I just edited my thoughts into this comment as I listened cuz they always have so many little discussions worth a comment and I didn't want to leave a million comments)
The Y2K fear was not unfounded. It seemed like a nothing burger because a TON of people worked their butts off to make sure that it went smoothly. It was all hands on deck where I worked at the time and it *would* have been a major mess but for the hard work that was put in. But, hey - nothing happened, so no big deal. I’m sure we’ll all be doing the same thing again when 2038 rolls around.
Your totally making me think of my favourite book series! Its called Uglies, Pretties, Specials, Extras (4 books) 📚 I love them so much. I read them religiously! Theyre based in the future after a gas spore kills all gas in the universe. I highly highly recommend reading!
They call us the rusties! Lol
Such a rollercoaster of a read! 🎉
Always enjoy these podcasts, and this is a fun topic! As a space nerd, I like to think of our presence outside of the planet expanding -- a colony on the moon, trips to Mars, etc. Things we're already working towards. I'd love to think these come to fruition and even more beyond that.
Whale, because with home field advantage, I can just throw rocks at it as it lays dying on the ground.
I would really love to see another one of these, as well as more ghost stories! Love you guys!
27:32 the talk of contacts and social media streaming really reminds me of the uglies book series, specifically the 4th book in it called extras, which focuses exactly on a future where these things are happening with people streaming their lives and not contacts but iirc implants in their eyes but it has people doing fad such as "radical honesty" and a bunch of others things. there's a lot more going on in the series and i haven't read it in a number of years but the social media aspects really stuck with me. its a very fantastical world but is rooted enough that a lot of it is a believable possibility.
One interesting thing you guys are probably missing out on is how much technology will become obsolete. Right now we talk about cars doing things on their own, but what if cars are basically obsolete in less than 100 years because we have a new form of travel that is significantly better?
This plays off your comments about unforseen consequences. The effects of "filters" on people's self image. GPS built into cars allows for invasion of privacy and insurance to punish clients for minor infractions. And don't get me started on the misuse of drones. That said, all of these technologies have also had useful and largely beneficial contributions. But why don't people use Polaroids as much anymore? Those were going to be the future of cameras and had incredible possibilities. Why are trains suffering as a dying industry?
There's a lot to think about and unpack... But there's a point at which i think trying to predict things we haven't seen yet isn't nearly as valuable as trying to look at what we have and are working on today and what the possible impact is, both positive and negative. Those predictions will be much more useful, IMO
"trains suffering as a dying industry"? Say you're american without saying you're american.
All I can think about whenever future tech is brought up is "do you want a break from the ads"? And the implications of ads and commercials showing up on your eyes, headset, etc.
I love this topic! One of my favorite authors has covered so much of this, Robert Heinlein, he was a future tech/scifi genius. His book The Moon is a Harsh Mistress has a lot of AI stuff... no spoilers! It is probably in my top 10 all time reads!
Hey Impulse and Skizz, this was a fun topic, maybe it’s worth coming back to again someday to try a predict more of what’s to come.
When you were talking about extending human life, I’ve thought on that before but I’ve tended to think about side consequences that might occur from it. And so far these ideas stuck out in my mind the most that would have a great impact. I thought about the idea of people being able to copyright IP like content, or maybe for a thing that was invented. Because with copyright the law around the world with IP is it’s the life of the author + x amount of years, before it becomes part of the public domain unless you get it renewed. So if life can be extended and humans could live 150-200 years then it will be a long time before we will see the rights to anything made today.
Another thing I thought was also when you get a mortgage for a house how you could have 100+ year mortgages, and you could spend over a lifetime to pay off a house at a cheaper rate. Because it’s spread over so long
And that thought also got me thinking about Compound interest, and how what if you would be alive long enough to have the same investment you made 200 years ago be your source of income that it’s paying you 50x over that you wouldn’t have to work (not to earn money anyway) and your interest is earning interest.
Also you guys spoke about Back to the Future 2, but there was something I think you both overlooked from that movie that we have nowadays, and it’s so commonplace that it would have been hard to believe it ever could have been futuristic at the time. That one part of the movie where Biff pays the cab driver with a digital credit card that was basically PayWave. I had to remind myself that, that wasn’t even a thing yet. And there it is.
Also something I’ve come to realise about Black Mirror, which I think makes the show quite fascinating to watch, it’s never the technologies fault, it’s always the people’s fault as to why things go wrong. The technology just does what it’s meant to do, it’s these humans that come in with their emotions and agendas that make things take a dark turn for the worst I think. (Also Skizz, you might have seen it already, I’m guessing you have, but since you spoke about Boston Dynamics, you should watch Black Mirror’s MetalHead, I think you could enjoy that one)
The scary part of AI for me is not the technology itself it’s the people programming it. I am not trying to say devs are malicious but they do look at their product and projects in the best case scenarios. As Skiz described all it takes is bad parameters and you can have a system that is Wildly different than intended.
impulse I've always had the same idea about the transportation tubes ever since I was a little kid! Really cool to see someone else had my idea too.
In relation to what skizz was saying about the robot dog "taking over" and interpreting someone pushing it as a threat and all of that I would suggest looking into the stop button problem in the AI field which directly relates to that
You have no idea how strong of an opinion I have on these current hoverboards. They’re not hovering!!! grrrr great episode btw
This was a great episode! Always intriguing to hear how other people see the future going, especially on a range of concepts like that.
Would be interesting to see a lightning round style in this vein with a list of different topics, then each person gives their best case scenario/vision in that field, and then their worst scenario/vision of how that field could go.
At the end of the Podcast, there was talk about a device that could translate language for you. Such device exists. "Translating Earbuds" :D Found this out a few hours ago when scrolling through YT Shorts.
As a swede I always find it funny how consistent the american mix up of Sweden and Switzerland is. Not like lol funny, but it's an interesting quirk you know?
Regarding living forever, i think The Good Place handled this really well
great topic! and needed for me at this time😂 i need to desing a robot of some kind and i was brainstorming but havent really got any ideas, u helped me alot with this podcast, got me inspired😊 cant wait for the next week, thank u guys!
I am glad to hear someone else say Black Mirror is such a rich story you have to take breaks from it
You two should do an unsolved mystery series or spooky stories for Halloween!
Those ideas skizz threw around are amazing OMG. If only those judges were smart enough
One thing I always have in my mind is how the smartphones would improve. Would it be thin? Would there be one camera instead of multiple? Or the smartphones would be like you say in mixed reality?
Opening question best answer… with a home field advantage the answer is a shark. A shark in a field, and me with a few big rocks, I’d win. 80% sure.
Just wanted to say this was another great episode, wonderful job! Look forward to the next!
movies/ shows they mentioned (i think i missed some): Wall-E, Back to the Future, Ready Player 1, Minority Report, Matrix, The Truman Show, Black Mirror, Jurassic Park
my recommendations: The Good Place, Fallout.
Skizz and Impuse would enjoy watching Psycho-Pass (Its anime), season 1. It dives into the same realm of how augmented reality could affect everyday life. To the point where the system can tell if someone is about to commit a crime and alert the authorities. But what's really interesting is thinking about how people would react to a crime, someone being hurt, if you live in a society where there is almost no crime. Would people think its fake?
It also dives into the idea of putting too much stock in mental health 'cures' which turns people into vegetables in the show.
YAY a new podcast!!!
Surprised you guys didn't plug your appearance on Jack & Kris. It was randomly suggested to me (maybe through the power of the internet since I watched Zed on this podcast). Thoroughly enjoyed both episodes!
"Dangerous" in Canada... Canadian Goose
I would not attempt a goose even with a stick with a rock strapped on lol
Babelfish! Love Douglas Adams!
If this is a topic that interests you, the Bobiverse books might be an interesting read/listen. Starts with We Are Legion (We Are Bob).
Having myself as my own assistant would be bad. I'm lazy and disorganized, it wouldn't go well. I also tend to overthink things, so my assistant would be driven insane long before the point where it would useful in any way
You were talking about giant pranks at one point. That would be a great topic. Epic pranks that have or could happen. Example War of the Worlds radio show back in the day that terrified masses.
It’s really interesting to hear your thoughts about using drone to help fight fires. Using them as a live update system for wind control and hot spot investigation is really fascinating especially as climate conditions evolve. It’s also fascinating to look at from an ecological perspective because there are several ecosystems that are reliant on regular burning to stay healthy so that they don’t get excessive undergrowth build up to cause some of the large scale devastation that we see today. Regardless, more data is always good! Thanks for another amazin episode!
Y2K was all fine BECAUSE a LOT of people made sure that it was fine. Lots of people wrote a little bit of code and lots of people went around installing that little bit of code in computers around the world. I know because I was part of a team that did this. I installed the software update in computers in hospitals and pathology labs in Australian regional areas, along with a whole lot of other people. There was a problem, it was addressed, that's the reason it was all fine. Not because it wasn't an issue (it was an issue).
I think the movie that Impulse was trying to connect with references to Ready Player One and Wall-E - 2009 Bruce Willis "Surrogates" explored a whole angle of people getting too into something that wasn't real.
the concept of “living forever” remind’s me of the Good Place. i don’t want to spoil it- but iykyk
An intresting idea for a podcast is how ya'll voices have developt during the years. I'm new to the content creating thing and all the podcasts has helpt me keep inspired to do more and use my voice .
About that black mirror thing, That's the plot of the psychological horror game Soma
What I would love to see is a transporter like Star Trek to make traveling anywhere easier. I really wish we could have a holodeck like Star Trek too.
I'd like you two to look at the Tesla Optamis.... With your engineering... It will blow your mind
The general rule is that people tend to massively overestimate the change in the near future (aka Back to the Future), and massively underestimate the amount of change over the longer term. The guy who said there'd only be four computers was in a world that had absolutely no concept of the internet. Computers for him were just efficient calculators, not communication tools. We, today, have absolutely no concept of how future technologies are going to completely change our way of life and society. So what we do is we project and extend current technologies, usually massively overestimating just how fast and how far these technologies will be extended because we don't know what the disruptor is going to do and make our extended tech vision obsolete.
As a side note, the reason everything was "all fine" when the year 2000 hit was because various institutions had spent thousands of man hours and millions of dollars getting in and adjusting critical code and systems.
What about More's law, or at least the doubling of power every 18 Mos if not actual transistor size?
Interesting book on this is Physics of the future from Michio Kaku. He extrapolates from today's technology, current research into the next 50 to 100 years.
My prediction is that not only will we be able to transport objects in a blink of an eye like 'beam me up scotty', but everyone will have a POD: private orbital device. But it won't be perfected yet, and we will still have to call in our destination to be coordinated and linked up.
The laws of physics still exist.
The Y2K Bug was only prevented by hard working professionals.
I would honestly love to see the data behind Skizz's AR thing. Like, the feedback and questions people had. Their reactions. So I could analyze it from a sociological perspective and theorize how that kind of technology could affect society and individuals
Star Trek food replicators and transporters would be awesome
What a great podcast episode really loved the topic, just thinking about the augmented reality made me want Phasmo in like an escape room themed building and how awesome that would be
We need The Babel fish! Funny that one of the first online translator was called Babelfish.
When it comes to flying cars, I believe we will get there, but it'll be at the sacrifice of the steering wheel and individual control. Considering the time and money it takes to get a pilots license and air traffic controller navigation. Regulating the flying vehicles are the challenge and ensuring humans can avoid being stupid in them is what's holding it up. Private companies have made flying vehicles for years, but production for the masses won't occur until its fully autonomous.
Think The Jetsons.
Flying cars are a cool concept but pointless in reality.
Hey impulse and skizz I love theese podcasts❤
Maybe a stuffed teddy bear😅😂
Black Mirror sounds like Twilight Zone revisited, but it also sounds like they’ve been doing a good job.
I always love listening to this podcast while I write! Your conversation at the 42-minute mark about monitoring children's texts-discord messages caught my attention. Do you have a good place to submit questions/topics of discussion? I'd love to ask your opinions, both as parents and as content creators, about monitoring the media kids consume when there is not only far more media for kids to consume, but also easier access to said media without parental intervention?
Skizz ranting about losing to augmented reality reminds me of Doof from Phineas and Ferb losing to a baking soda volcano lol
"They need to hover homie" hahaha
1:02:44 like in the polar express!
You guys should read Scythe, it is a book series that covers an advanced world where everyone is bow immortal and death has become problem. I’ve been on an dystopian reading kick and is is by far one of my favorites!
Great job fellas keep it up 👍
7:39. POV Amazon-Welcome to our new monthly subscription. We call it..... Life
Before AI, it was Terminator, before that it was Frankenstein, before that clock work men, before that golems, all the way back to totems in ancient Egypt. The fear of being destroyed by our hubris, or as payment for our ambition in building a better future. A very human fear but perhaps not directly rational.
Autonomous driving is just a different type of trains
The move “in time” with Justin Timberlake….
The future will most likely be like Surrogates but in space. The movie is from 2009 but based on the 2005-2006 comic book series. We will be working remotely but also in person, future going to be strange
Love the episode! But I feel you are just ignoring the home court advantage. If you fight a shark on land it couldn't move easily and you could just hit it's back with a stick until it suffocated?
The talk of avatar gave me an idea I'd love to happen in the future: Give me the possibility to create my own lifelike robot based on the fictional character I'm in love with. That would solve so many problems. :)
I would love to see Imp or Skizz tackle the concept of Mixed Reality or future tech as a theme in minecraft
I love the idea of the Hololens but they are SO expensive! Ha ha, there are plenty of movies showing us why AI could possibly be a problem!
We have limited our kids screen time and they HATE us for it! lol It's funny! When they tell us that it invades their privacy we tell them that it's our job to get them to adulthood and so we have to monitor everything they do to keep them safe!
Wall-E and Idiocracy are pretty good predictions
Stephen Hawkins, may he rest in peace, said the greatest threat to humanity is A.I.
If AI gets to the point of being able to take over the world, i for one welcome our new AI overlords
that part, @28:00 mins in, I got familiar with that creator when that issue came up in my feed. Remembering that I used to watch them back a decade ago, and it's such a sad thing to see that the reason they do that is to make "faster content" and getting "more views". They claim it will be "the future" of content creation. Kinda scary to think that you'll allow yourself, your whole being, voice and personality to be put into an AI that you made that will inevitably replaces the "You" people once used to follow and had loved.
And I don't want to see that while I'm still living in this world.
I'll still forever follow the likes of you, Imp and Skizz on the internet content creation. No AI will ever make me not want to watch you guys.
There’s a Japanese anime movie called Summer Wars that shows the dangers of AI in an almost completely virtual world, highly recommend that movie
Crazy to think about AI becoming a thing.. makes me want to go camping lol great podcast as always guys.
They already have fake keyboards where you just tap your fingers on a desk or whatever. I hate that idea, I like to be able to feel the keys move under my fingers (plus how will you know if you start to slide off the home keys a bit?). But if I could input text without typing at all (and also without speaking out loud) I'd be happy enough with that, I think.
Some applications of new technology get ridiculous, though. Touch sensitive controls for absolutely everything, for instance, which means you can't *feel* for the button and have to be looking (hate that in cars), and also that you might trigger it accidentally by brushing against it (like keeps happening with my earbuds)
“Touch controls” with no texture are a pet peeve of mine, too!
I really enjoyed this one! AI is something I didn’t really have a problem with until recently. AI has evolved some much that it is generating artwork, which is infuriating! As an artist, I cannot express how angry it makes me to see AI generated art. The whole point of art is for people to appreciate the amount of work the artist put into it, the hours upon hours of dedication it took to create it. And for it all to be replaced by a computer that take 2 seconds is terrible!! It loses all value!! I know people will argue, “Now you don’t have to spend hours to create a beautiful art piece. It’s done for you.” I like spending hours creating a beautiful art piece! That’s the joy in being an artist!! That’s my take on it. Sorry for rambling. Loved the episode!!
Also, I never get tired of watching the little delivery robots roam around ASU. They are so cute and funny!
The whole point of art is *definitely not* for people to appreciate the amount of work/time that went into it. The value of art is in no way tied to the amount of time it took. The point of art is to express emotion, ideas, thoughts etc. Which is why "art" made by AI is pointless and it's why it feels soulless.
Yeah that too. It’s just how I feel about it. When I see art, I like to take the time to appreciate the time it took to make it. Again this is just my take on it
@@TreeWars The VFX unionizing is more about vfx artists being asked to meet insane deadlines working crazy hours for no extra pay.
AI is nowhere close to being able to do vfx work.
You have to go big with the animal you fight. Human gets the home field advantage so sea creatures are on land? I'm going Blue Whale. Largest animal and all I have to do is stand there for a few minutes and wait for gravity to do the rest.
So when we going in together to start up this get away business? Seriously though. Love the podcast, every one I listen too I want to comment 100 times my thoughts as you go along lol. Keep up the good work fellas.
If humans had home field advantage, im taking on a blue whale all day. All I'd have to do is wait.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought of this.
Smrt
Peacock, okay. But can you whoop a goose? Stick or no stick, your legs are gonna hurt!
Biggest animal, you having field advantage? Great White Shark, easy 😂 i dont have to do much, do i? I just have to stay a few feet apart and continues to poke it until it asphyxiates on land...