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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > Social forecasting, futurology
It's the moment of your death. There's a magic button. Do you
delete your entire online legacy? Or do you keep it - and leave the
choice for someone else? USER NOT FOUND is about our digital lives
after we die. Dante or Die's play, created with pioneering
theatre-artist Chris Goode, is inspired by a Guardian article by
Caroline Twigg about dealing with her late husband's digital
afterlife. In the play Terry becomes responsible for the online
legacy of his partner - he is flooded with condolence texts and
messages about his partner's death, and then has to decide what to
keep and what to delete. The performance was originally developed
with creative technologists Marmelo, and was performed in a cafe,
where the audience share Terry's story through smartphones and
headphones. In this format the play was performed in cafes across
the country, including at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe. The audience
become a fly-on-the-wall to peer into the life of a man who is
faced with keeping or deleting. A story of contemporary grief
unfolds through this intimate, funny performance that gently
interrogates our need for connection. "With his tender script,
[Goode] hands us each the weight of the internet and asks how we
get closure in a world where nothing ever switches off." The
Guardian.
Many people think the future is something we need to adjust to, rather than what we decide through the choices we make today. This book looks at the choices we are starting to make that will define this future. The majority of experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics predict we are likely to have built machines as intelligent as us by the year 2062. What will the future look like when the quest to build intelligent machines has succeeded?
In 2062, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Toby Walsh, a world-leader in the field and one of the 100 ‘rock stars’ of Australia’s digital revolution, considers the impact AI will have on work, war, equality, politics and, ultimately, the fate of humanity. Will automation take away most of our jobs? When will we start to see this happen? Will the robots take over? Will they become conscious? Will we perhaps become machines? Will inequality continue to increase? How can we prevent this? How will political debate adjust to the post-truth, digital world? How do we make the right choices today to ensure our future is bright?
Based on a deep understanding of the technology and its implications, 2062 describes the choices we need to make today to ensure a good future. Walsh answers some of the most important and pressing questions facing us today. He concludes that, if we plan well, the future past 2062 could be very bright indeed but we need to start making some difficult choices today.
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