Online reflection 2

As I f**k up the last online reflection, Im going to do that one now instead. 

Think of one aspect of daily life that you think/hope will change in a) 1-5 years b) 6-50 years. 

I'm going to write about A.I (artificiell intelligens)

a) In the next few years I don't see to much change for us. But it will come, as we now are using it for e.g computer/video games, but what we will use it to beyond that could be anything. New smart devices are made up every day and soon it will start to change our behaviors and thinking. As we will start to depend more and more on this smart devices.

b) There is 2 different scenarios that could happen. Ethier we have a world filled with smart machine that will do everthing for us. Like drive our cars, makes us food when we are hungry or help us with what ever everyday task we need help with. A utopia with smart devices and robots. This wil probably take more towards the 50 yeat spectrum.
On the complett opposite we have more of an apocalyps world, Where machines have taken over the word. As they grow smarter they will eventully be smart enough to take control over us all. If we just look at recent events as DeepMind AlhaGo vs Lee Sedol (where the AI won of course) and Tay (a AI program that turned in to a Nazi in less than 24 hours), means that today AI is already preety scary, but as long as we (as humans) have the power to turn them off (as Microsoft did to Tay) we are fine. But what happens when they go beyond that? Will we be in a utopia or will we be in a war against the machine and threaten to be completely wiped out?

Online reflection 1 for ENGAT2

Online reflection 1 for ENGAT2

i)                    1-5 year from now:
The first thing I know is that I will be done with my degree and from that I think/believe one of two things will happen. The first is me getting a real job and start a “real” life as an adult. With that I mean, as a student you don’t have the same amount of responsibility’s and you have more free time.
Option number two is for me to travel around a bit. This is something I would love to do once I’m finished, as it is one of the best chances to see the world before you start to settle down.  I having a hard time imagining what my daily life will look like after school, I do hope I don’t end up in a routine, only work, get home sleep, meet friends once/twice a week and repeat.  So what I really want in the next 5 years are me being able to travel around, don’t have to be too long but for a while. Still have great friends that can and wants to hang out often. A girlfriend, as I’m currently single I wouldn’t mind changing that. Lastly a want to work with something that I wouldn’t mind continue doing for the next 40 years (give or take).  Right now these goals feels possible, the hardest one will most likely be the job. I still don’t know exactly what I want to do when I grow up so it’s really hard to tell. Getting the chance to travel is a must at some point, even if it means quieting an existing job to get a new one after I’m done. It’s not impossible I will get one outside of Sweden or one where traveling is included (fingers crossed). While I don’t think all the friends I have now will still be in my life in 5 years, I hope some are or that where ever I end up to meet some other great people.       

ii)                   6-50 years from now:
First of this is a huge timespan is it’s hard to tell what can/will happen. So I’m just going to say 27 years from now, that would make me 50 years young. I think most of my life is different by now, or all of it. Maybe not all of my personality has changes but that’s about it. I can just assume I have a family, however what ages my future kids would be by that is unknown (who knows I might even a grandkids by then) or they might still be very young , but I think they would be around my current age. By this point I don’t see myself as much of a party man or being with friends as much. I guess I would have gotten a hobby so I will have somethings to do on my spare time. I kind of hope I will still be able to/ wants to travels more but don’t think it will be for as long or far as before. With my career by this point I will stick with the job I have, can’t see any reasons why not. I might already be looking in to retirement but that’s another 15 years so.
I honestly don’t think it will be super special compared to most people at that age. I don’t think famous or fortune is something I should count on.  But the only thing I want be this stage of life is to be happy.  Cause as I see it right now is, if you can say you are happy with your life when you start moving to the second half of it, you probably had a good run by the end of it.

In general I have nothing to base my assumptions on, I just look how the people I know that is close to this age and see some common things, I mean worst case scenario I could die tomorrow in an accident. But hey let’s not be negative and in 27 years the world we know today is gone and what wonders (and slightly less good things) have the human race been able to achieve by then?
our life’s might a taken a hug twist from that.

**I see now I missread, our daliy life as your daliy life when I wrote this xD Sorry about that

       

Online reflections 3

Online reflection 3

The book that I have been reading is Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King. The story is about an retired cop Bill Hodges and the murderer of one of his unsolved cases, Brandy Hartfied  aka Mr. Mercedes.
Brandy looking for the thrill of killing again and Bill on the line to suicidal his is target. But by teasing Bill a new light sparks in him and the cat and mouse game is on.  

In this book we get to see throw the eyes of both sides, and how we all wanting a reason to live and how a normal person can be someone else when we don't look.  
Neither Brandy or Bill are by the outside look suicidal or like they could hurt a fly, but once you get to get inside their heads and think the more you understand them.  Trying to put yourself  in that situation, just what would I do? Could I go this far? To be honest by doing that, it almost felt naturally to take the actions they did sometimes, and when it didn't I couldn't help to think. "It because you never had this experience".  If you read this, ask yourself what would I do if I felt no reason to live? Kill myself?  or kill someone else?
It also made me realize just how twisted a human mind can become. How easy it is for some to break limits you didn't know and how crazy it is to try to catch a killer on your own. (Ex-cop or not).

While this is a big theme in the book, there is another one. Three of the big turning points of the book is made by judge people too early.  Which is shown here and the consequences to, (even if it's on the extreme side in the book).  Obviously we judge someone by one way or another, and this will get some consequences even if we don't think so or even will notice them.  But be unlucky and it will be a butterfly effect. 

Overall I really enjoyed the book, and remember your ice-cream salesman could be a killer.  

Online reflection 2

I have decided to discuss the TED talk "are droids taking our jobs?"  by Andrew McAFees.
http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_our_jobs#t-90051

Before I watch this, I thought of course droids and machines are getting better and can therefore replace more and more people. While it's true that someone has to build the robots and maintain them, but that's fewer and more calcified people so jobs are still lost.

The beginning wasn't surprising at all to me, it was just as I thought.  If something did bother me it was the fact that the companies made so much more by simply abandon people.
Moving on to the human vs. "machine" part. I'm still not surprised by these facts but then again I have lived through it, and I'm not that old (22 if you most know). But thinking back on how life was back as a kid, you start to realize exactly what Andrews trying to say; which is something we tend to forget, the technology is evolving faster and faster.

Personally I don't think it's fair to call the human/robot work transition the greatest challenge yet, not with how we treat other people, the environment and animals. That's harder to fix then to simple say; "No we can't allow machines to take over more jobs so companies most hire people (with the right knowledge and skills of course) instead of machines". Unfortunately money rules the world so I don't see anyone even consider this as an option.

From here on we start to disagree more and more, I'm more of a pessimist and say how are we going to have a working economy if on one works and gets money? I would like to hear the solution to this problem.
There is good parts to, like the fishing village in India. The technology helped them improve their life. The problem is if there is too much technology, like we have here. It does improve our life to but it's also taking over more and more of our days. I know I would have a big problem not using a Smartphone or a computer for a full day.  So as long as the machines can help us, there is no problem, but when the start to take over our life (jobs, hobbies etc) then problem starts.

By the end when he says "It's gonna give us more time, and what we are going to do is reduce poverty and drudgery ad misery around the world".
I don't agree with this at all, in fact I believe could get worse. Not that mankind is pure evil but we do have a pretty bad record of treating each other nice. Not to mention that jobs keeps us from boredom, will a person with unlimited time never be bored enough to think, maybe I should do something less good just for fun. If one does it someone is sure to follow or to get revenge on the first guy. Hopefully someone will realize this problem early on and try to stop it.

We ain't seen nothing yet..... and I hope it's not going to be like a sci-fi movie.

Online reflection 1

Can a city really ban cars from its streets? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140204-can-a-city-really-go-car-free

I personal don't believe it will be possible to stop using cars in the near future. Even with a span of 20 years I find it unlikely that a big city (Hamburg) will be car less. For several reasons (both personal and no-personal) will make this an impossible (or at least a very hard) goal to have. the first thing that comes to my mind is time and money; how much is it possible to invest in whats basically gonna be rebuilding an either city. The article says that parks, playgrounds, sport fields etc will from networks, I don't know if its means that all will be with in walking distance or if its just going to be easier get around everything by walking. Either way it feels like an extremely amount of money is necessary. Not to criticise anyone but fixing a round can take weeks if not months to fix, how long time will be needed to fix the whole city? 
The car has and will be among other things a feeling of freedom, Its hard to think that all people simple just gonna give the up. No its more likely that the people will go against this proposal, and I can't really blame them. Image a oversleeping a morning, if you go by bus, use the bike or walk ever day this is the day you will be using the car just to save those precious minutes. Or if your sick and have to go buying groceries? Take the bus doesn't really sound appealing.
Now lets say we have a city with no cars: how will it work out if someone from another city drove here? Can this person drive in the city or will he/she be forced to leave the car at the city limits? If you want to go from the cars less city to anywhere else, are you obligated to take a bus or train?
Will the public transportation be free of charge, or will the price go up/down. I can imagine that the public transport sector has to expand due to more people will depend on it. But it's feels unfair if the bus tickets will cost e.g twice as much if you have no other choices.
To me it feels like this questions will be a factor in the success (or failure) of this project.

Now I know I been negative about the whole thing, trust me as an student with major in energy and environmental I could not be happier if this was every city's plan. The car is one big environmental
problem. Not to say that ride the bike every day to work would be good for most people and so on. Even if more households don't have cars, it will take a long time before the norm will be not having one.
Hopefully I'm wrong and this will be something the world will use as a standard in two decades.