It’s the last day of CES. Unveiling a large-screen TV, ridiculously thin laptop When shape changing screenthe world of consumer tech is also buzzing about the possibility – and Dystopian result — Several quirkymore futuristic vaporware introduced.
Has CES brought fear, at least in the last few years? black mirror In life?
January 2018 was the peak month for Google searches for “Black Mirror.” Netflix had just released Season 4. CES followed in a few days. (And just to say, Google will abandon its unofficial “don’t be evil” motto a few months later.) Since then, nearly every advance in facial recognition, every amazing new Robot, all biometric data released. A vampire, the ghost of Black Mirror, appears in chat. When I first saw the video, find a robot dogI thought with horror, Anyone learned a lesson from Episode 5 of Season 4?
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So many CES reveals that year, and since mirror Given that the show’s creator and frequent writer Charlie Booker was actually trolling the CES floor for conspiracy prey, the anthology series’ average time to market is It might even make more sense. Case in point: Ultimately, the robot watchdog from the Metalhead episode actually inspired by Boston Dynamics — A company that was owned by “don’t be evil” Google at one point, but of course it was.
My two cents: Does this chicken-and-egg situation matter even more when the Terminator himself is ironically speaking out on the CES stage?
Arnold Schwarzenegger on stage at BMW’s CES 2023 presentation.
Toilet sensor that reads urine For health indicators? autonomous strollerSuch a BMW… i want to be your friend? of Most talked about CES products I tend to run the gamut from “problem asking for solution” (I’m looking at you, color changing party fridge) in “The Harbinger of Techpocalypse”. (I remember that time The “new shape” created by Samsung?) And while the gizmos and gadgets announced at CES 2023 might give some people away, Like colleague Ian Shah’s nightmareaccording to my Fitbit, I’m actually sleeping very soundly.
This is fine.all is well
The canonical one-line summary of Black Mirror, committed to Pixel in 2015 by The Toast writer Daniel M. Lavery, is “What if it was a phone, but too many.” As a bona fide iconoclast, my objection is simple. 2018 was five years ago for him. Declare, “This is like an episode of Black Mirror!” 5 years ago. It is possible to be evil! Technology is scary, but it’s also exciting.it solves A problem no one has ever experiencedbut it also sets its sights on about the real problem. fine. All fine.
call me naive Danger of AI When self-driving car He seems to be good friends with Old Man Yells at Cloud meme.
Yes, I know A bike that powers your laptop teeth Lurry The premise of the second episode of the show. But converting the kinetic energy generated by your workout into charging your device is far from the forced labor of Black Mirror. Thing about dystopian stories, or really any story, they rely on escalating tensions.
The eKinekt BD 3 Bike Desk is powered by the energy produced by pedaling.
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Is this woman protesting too much? Absolutely not! Probably not. Maybe? But living in this hyper-connected world, which is rapidly changing at an unimaginable pace, does something to the human brain. The human brain’s natural response seems to be limited to either surrender in fear or bury your head in the sand. I don’t know anymore if I’m laughing so as not to cry or if it’s an emoji that makes me cry and laugh. Or an upside down smiley face emoji? Someone may be chopping onions here.
There is no such thing as too many internet-connected devices. Seriously, what’s the other one? The more, the more fun. take a ride here
Are we paving the way to hell with our annual harvest of “innovation”? We already know that the road to hell is paved with good intentions or adverbs, not the Internet of Things is not possible because
To quote Kevin McCallister, I am no longer afraid.
charlie booker announced in 2020 He won’t be working on another season of Black Mirror as life has started to imitate art a bit. whispers season 6 started to circulate. I welcome the return of her third best his sci-fi anthology show and greet with the same world-weary nod I give her at CES. Why shout into the void or wave first into the clouds when everyone wears them? noise canceling headphones When VR headset for now?
