Zuckerberg predicts death of smartphone by 2022, outlines crazy

>A mixed-reality world is exciting for society and for Facebook shareholders. But it also opens the door to some crazy future scenarios, where Facebook, or some other tech company, intermediates everything you see, hear, and, maybe even, think. And as we ponder the implications of that kind of future, consider how fast we've already progressed on Zuckerberg's timeline.

>We're now one year closer to Facebook's vision for 2026. And things are slowly, but surely, starting to come together, as the social network's plans for virtual and augmented reality, universal internet connectivity, and artificial intelligence start to slowly move from fantasy into reality.

>In fact, Michael Abrash, the chief scientist of Facebook-owned Oculus Research, said this week that we could be just 5 years away from a point where augmented reality glasses become good enough to go mainstream. And Facebook is now developing technology that lets you "type" with your brain, meaning you'd type, point, and click by literally thinking at your smart glasses. Facebook is giving us a glimpse of this with the Camera Effects platform, making your phone into an AR device.

>The potential here is tremendous. Remember that Facebook's mission is all about sharing, and this kind of virtual, ubiquitous " teleportation " and interaction is an immensely powerful means to that end.

>This week, Oculus unveiled "Facebook Spaces," a "social VR" app that lets denizens of virtual reality hang out with each other, even if some people are in the real world and some people have a headset strapped on. It's slightly creepy, but it's a sign of the way that Facebook sees you and your friends spending time together in the future.
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>And if you're wearing those glasses, there's no guarantee that the person who's taking your McDonald's order is a human, after all. Imagine a virtual avatar sitting at the cash register, projected straight into your eyeballs, and taking your order. With Facebook announcing its plans to revamp its Messenger platform with AI features that also make it more business-friendly, the virtual fast-food cashier is not such a far-fetched scenario.

>Sure, Facebook Messenger chatbots have struggled to gain widespread acceptance since they were introduced a year ago. But as demonstrated with Microsoft's Xiaoice and even the Tay disaster, we're inching towards more human-like systems that you can just talk to. And if Facebook's crazy plan to let you "hear" with your skin plays out, they can talk to you while you're wearing those glasses. And again, you'll be able to reply with just a thought.

>If we're all living in this kind of semi-virtual world, it makes Facebook key to every interaction, and crucially, every financial transaction we conduct in that sphere. It could make the company a lot of money, certainly.

>So yes, while it's still at least a decade off, this is all happening, little bit by little bit. But with Facebook facing fresh questions every day for its role in our personal lives and our political elections, it's also important to remember that much of this gives the social network — as well as companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft which all pursuing the same ends — unprecedented control over our conceptions of reality. It's time to ask these questions now, and not later.
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http://www.newsweek.com/mark-zuckerberg-smartphone-future-facebook-f8-augmented-reality-585963

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/19/business/tech/zuckerberg-says-augmented-reality-strategy-start-smartphones/

>>134731
>a world without screens

Now the crazy jew has finally lost the last few braincells he still had.

>>134731
>For science-fiction lovers, the world Facebook is starting to build is very cool

No, it sounds horrifying. I don't want everything I do and think being monitored, tabulated, and ultimately dependent on the agenda of a singular mega-corporation. Why does the media act as mouthpieces for corporate propaganda instead of putting these concerns front and center? This whole article reads like an advertisement with some throwaway concession to privacy concerns buried at the very end.

>>134731
>>On Facebook's planet of 2026, the entire world has internet access — with many people likely getting it through Internet.org, Facebook's connectivity arm.
>all our computing is projected straight into our eyes as we type with our brains.
I see I'm not alone in envisioning a dystopian future.

>A mixed-reality world is exciting for society and for Facebook shareholders.
Matt Weinberger fails to note that we're already there.

>how does the world differ from your facebook feed?

>>134738
You're being an alarmist reactionary. It will be okay because snopes will be able to tell us if what we're seeing is true.

>>134738
> it's also important to remember that much of this gives the social network — as well as companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft which all pursuing the same ends — unprecedented control over our conceptions of reality. It's time to ask these questions now, and not later.

Sounds pretty skeptical for an 'advertisement', if you ask me. Or would you rather have the news not report his words at all?

>>134740
>It will be okay because snopes will be able to tell us if what we're seeing is true.
You wouldn't believe it anyway.

https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine

>>134745
Not news to anyone who hasn't been in a virtual coma for a decade.

>>134740
All hail the magic conch

>>134733
>With just a thought
No thank you robot over lord. I don't need FB or whatever reading my thoughts and probably turning them into their intellectual property while they do it.

>>134738
I wonder if the terrorist in 20 years will be the ones targetting data centers because they threaten the way of life.

>>134747
I guess you knew all about it?

I dunno, it all seems overzealous to me. Humans are built to use tools. That's why we carry things like smartphones around. They exist as objects to enact our will upon. This whole "command by thought" thing sounds cool, but I predict people will feel less in control because it won't be a tool to physically use.

People spend tons of money on contact lenses and lasik surgery just to not have to wear glasses. Stop trying to say everyone wants to wear internet glasses

>>134731
>Lasers
>Vision
>Planning

Is the entire presentation buzzwords?

Nobody cares wat this jew thinks or more wants

>>134731
Has science gone too far?

>>134818
They're betting that augmented reality will make people want glasses a lot more than they do now.

>>134830
It won't

>>134834
Wow, you're so smart anon, I'm glad you're here to give your incredible wisdom and share your clearly well educated and developed view of what the future may hold. Good thing this anon was here to solve this mystery with his prescient knowledge of all that will be, otherwise there might have been some legitimately good discussion here!

On topic, this looks equally terrifying and awesome. How long before glasses become implants? Before those implants become mandatory (or at least very common like circumcision) for health reasons? The future holds some definite strangeness in store.

>>134835
>Before those implants become mandatory
There's no need. The human body already has enough unique patterns to keep tabs on everyone, Before long they probably be able to identity you be measuring your brainwaves at a distance.

I want augmented reality glasses buy I don't want to pay thousands.
I want them as a cheap peripheral, not an expensive alternative to phone.

>>134803
That won't be terrorizing but fighting for peace :^)

>>134733
>>And if you're wearing those glasses, there's no guarantee that the person who's taking your McDonald's order is a human, after all. Imagine a virtual avatar sitting at the cash register, projected straight into your eyeballs, and taking your order
Yeah, because why hire people?

Controlling computers with thought sounds like a fucking nightmare. It's already hard enough to sit down and get some work done without accidentally end up balls deep in 4chan with no idea of how you got there.
I can't have fucking pornhub in my face every 10 seconds, I can't spend all day editing the overt-aggression I'm thinking about out of carefully worded passive-aggressive texts.

>>134731
Won't happen.
Betting on VR becoming as commonplace as smartphones is like betting on flying cars in the 60s or Kurzweil's singularity bullshit, it's an autists wet dream that will never come true. Nerds should just stick to keeping quiet and building shit for the rest of us.

>>134920
>for the rest of us
The rest of us are nerds.

dennou coil

reality

>>134733
because why bother forcing people into the Matrix? They all thought the movie was cool, they'll go willingly! Look, you can virtually kung-fu away!

>>134732
>
> But it also opens the door to some crazy future scenarios, where Facebook, or some other tech company, intermediates everything you see, hear, and, maybe even, think.

And of course Facebook will own and license everything you see, hear and think…

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/27/angela-merkel-caught-on-hot-mic-pressing-facebook-ceo-over-anti-immigrant-posts.html
Javier E. David
Sunday, 27 Sep 2015

Angela Merkel caught on hot mic griping to Facebook CEO over anti-immigrant posts

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was overheard confronting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
over incendiary posts on the social network, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, amid complaints
from her government about anti-immigrant posts in the midst of Europe's refugee crisis.

On the sidelines of a United Nations luncheon on Saturday, Merkel was caught on a hot mic
pressing Zuckerberg about social media posts about the wave of Syrian refugees entering
Germany, the publication reported.

The Facebook CEO was overheard responding that "we need to do some work" on curtailing
anti-immigrant posts about the refugee crisis. "Are you working on this?" Merkel asked in
English, to which Zuckerberg replied in the affirmative before the transmission was disrupted.

In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have washed up on Europe's
shores, seeking asylum from the raging civil war in their homeland. As Europe's largest
economy, Germany has sheltered the majority of them, leading to widespread objections
within the country.

Earlier this month, Facebook vowed to clean up what it deemed was racist content on the
German version of its website. At the time, the social network said it would partner with
a non profit group to oversee hate postings.

Yet any action from Facebook is likely to stoke concerns about free speech. In the past,
the social network has come under suspicion for suppressing or deleting posts and groups
that advocate unpopular beliefs.

>>134916
This so much, jeez, have we even stopped to think about how useless everyone would become. Its bad enough already

>>134976

“Merkel has joined a growing number of critics who have highlighted the dangers of receiving
information that confirms an existing opinion or is recommended by people with similar ideas.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/27/angela-merkel-internet-search-engines-are-distorting-our-perception?
Kate Connolly in Berlin
Thursday 27 October 2016

Angela Merkel: internet search engines are 'distorting perception'

A lack of transparency about algorithms is endangering debate, German chancellor tells media
conference

Angela Merkel has called on major internet platforms to divulge the secrets of their algorithms,
arguing that their lack of transparency endangers debating culture.

The German chancellor said internet users had a right to know how and on what basis the information
they received via search engines was channelled to them.

Speaking to a media conference in Munich, Merkel said: “I’m of the opinion that algorithms must
be made more transparent, so that one can inform oneself as an interested citizen about questions
like ‘what influences my behaviour on the internet and that of others?’.

“Algorithms, when they are not transparent, can lead to a distortion of our perception, they can
shrink our expanse of information.”

cont.

>>134981

An algorithm is the formula used by a search engine to steer a request for information. They are
different for every search engine, highly secret and determine the significance or ranking of a
web page.

Merkel has joined a growing number of critics who have highlighted the dangers of receiving
information that confirms an existing opinion or is recommended by people with similar ideas.

“This is a development that we need to pay careful attention to,” she told the conference,
adding that a healthy democracy was dependent on people being confronted by opposing ideas.

“The big internet platforms, through their algorithms, have become an eye of a needle which
diverse media must pass through [to access their users],” she said.

There has been increasing concern about so-called filter bubbles and echo chambers – the result
of an internet search in which an algorithm supposes the information someone would like to see
based on previous searches, as well as information it might have about their location or preferences
– in the light of the growing strength of populist movements in Europe, the Brexit vote in the UK
and the rise of Donald Trump in the US. This month, President Barack Obama’s former social media
adviser Caleb Gardner highlighted the danger of filter bubbles – a phrase invented by the internet
activist Eli Pariser.

“More likely than not, you get your news from Facebook,” Gardner told students at Northwestern
University in Illinois. “Forty-four per cent of US adults get news on the site, and 61% of millennials …
if that doesn’t frighten you, you don’t know enough about Facebook’s algorithm. If you have a parent
who’s a Trump supporter, they are seeing a completely different set of news items than you are.”

cont.

>>134982

Merkel will have an eye on next year’s federal election in which she is expected to stand for a
fourth term. The concern that the phenomenon of narrow debate which has been seen during the US
presidential campaign might be replicated in Germany is one shared across Germany’s established
parties.

Merkel called the issue a “challenge not just for political parties but for society as a whole”.
If it was unclear what mechanisms were being used, it could “lead to a distortion of how people
perceive things”, she said.

Thomas Jarzombek, the digital policy spokesperson of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union,
told Spiegel Online he did not think she was advocating that companies such as Google and
Facebook should disclose company secrets, “but we do need more information from these
operators as to how their algorithms function generally speaking”.

A cross-party working group is compiling recommendations urging more openness by internet
platforms, including making details on how their algorithms collect, choose, evaluate and present
information available to users. Its recommendations will be sent to Brussels, for the EU digital
commissioner Günther Oettinger to work them into guidelines by next year. Oettinger told Spiegel
Online: “Merkel has touched on an important topic.” But he said questions about search engines’
transparency had to “first undergo a more in-depth examination”.

FIN

When will the next UNAbomber strike?
Dude was right

>>134983
the future is frightening

>>134733
>Tay disaster

These idiots will never see it even when it's staring them in the face.

>>134983
problem-reaction-solution on the way right there. They want to further censor the internet and rationalise it as "challenging filter bubbles". Absolutely demonic.

>>134890
That is literately what every terrorist thinks

>>134915
Basic income will solve the problem. Don't worry about it.

>>134731
>A world without screens
Then how are you meant to use any technology that is created for social media purposes without a screen
He's smoking something for sure. What a tool.

>>134738
Because the media is a mouthpiece of big silicon valley companies and they only even invent technology for consumers if the technology benefits them firstly and primarily. The average joe wouldn't need or give a shit about the latest app if some nerd in big tech wasn't interested enough to sell it.

>>134890
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. No terrorist or wrong doer ever thinks they're the villain

People really need to stop listening to Mark Zuckrrberg

>>136132
lol he's probably running for president

https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/01/mark-zuckerberg-continues-his-not-running-for-president-tour-of-america-with-visit-to-trump-country/

>>134740
Snopes....

Hi Sorro's puppet

>>136162
Hello Mercer's puppet. How are you this fine day?

Satoshi says no.

Basically all current centralised tech is dead due to satoshi/blockchain

Corporations are dead

Govt is dead

we are going to have an atomized blockchain that forces truth and empowers individuals

and maybe an emergant ai

>>136361
We should integrate cellular antennae into the brains of all humans, network all our brains together, develop a supercomputing AI, and then integrate our collective limbic systems into the AI's decision making algorithms.
It can control each of us as its acuators in the world and we all get to experience the bliss of oneness with a close to omniscient hyper-intelligence.
We no longer need government or business and we've solved our most pressing problems that an undereducated electorate that doesn't think critically fails to solve.

>>136366
until the hivemind finds reason to (or does from the outset) section off a cadre compartmentalized separate from the general hive for security purposes perhaps, and the blissful hivemind is hijacked by other interests.

>>134738
It already is

>>134733
>Tay disaster
that was a glorious moment, anon

>5 years
Keep dreaming