CAN WE FINALLY CHEAT DEATH? WHERE WILL MAN TAKE US? WILL A.I ULTIMATELY CONQUER US? CAN WE BECOME SUPERHUMANS?

 If you really want to be happy. You don’t need to do too much.  A happiness pill along with breakfast will do the trick.

The person who is going to live for 150 years has already been born it seems. The digital screens that we are seeing now will be within us in a few years.

 

Just charging your partner before you go to sleep is more than enough. All of this has been said by Atul Jalan in his book “where will man take us?”

 

This book talks about the future and technological improvements of the future.

 

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:-

       The first revolution in this world was “The industrial revolution”. After the invention of the Steam Engine, we felt that our lives have changed.

 

ELECTRICITY AND TELEPHONE:-

      

The next invention was Electricity and Telephone. As electricity became a part of our lives. We all got astonished by its usage.

 

INTERNET:-

 

       We don’t even know how we lived without the internet 10-15 years ago. We are tied to the internet now.

 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:-

 

       The fourth major breakthrough in artificial intelligence. The next major advancement in artificial intelligence will be…

 

       Human beings might transform from being physical beings to hard copies. If our mind is updated and uploaded to the cloud.

 

       We can download the thoughts in our minds at any time. It’s almost like we will never die. If our thoughts can actually be updated on the cloud.

 

       In ancient days there used to be stories about a magic portion that keeps us alive. The elixir that we are searching for is artificial intelligence and Nanotechnology.

 

       In 10-15 years, we might not be having our jobs. Robots will take our jobs. This book tells also tells us how humans evolve after that.

 

       Just like how Petroleum, Fuel, and oil are essential for everyone now. Data is also important for us.

 

       It is actually our own data. We are the raw information. Our tastes, preferences, and habits have been split into different portions and stored as Data.

 

       This data from social media and our apps are used by individuals and companies for marketing. But, in the future, our data will be with us.

 

       Because the split data that is used for marketing is not exactly suitable for us. When we have the option to keep our data to ourselves.

 

       We can choose the ads and marketing campaigns according to our preferences. We can monetize our own data, there is no need for social media or third-party accounts.

 

       We will be able to sell our own data. In the medical field, with the help of D.N.A beyond tracing a person’s origin, and other details.

 

       We can track details regarding a person’s health and take preventive measures right from childhood.  23 and my company warned Angelina Jolie that there was a high probability of her getting breast cancer based on her D.N.A.

       So, Angelina took steps to remove her breasts before cancer developed. This can be an easily accessible practice in the future.

 

       We will be able to predict drastic changes in our bodies and take steps to avoid them. Just like how the doctors find out our sugar levels based on Blood samples.

 

       Instead of plucking the hair which might lead to hair fall. We can use the Nanochip which is 1000^th size to that of our hair. The Nanochip which is injected into our body travels through our bloodstream and patrols like the police to figure out the health issues that we have.

 

       The Nanochip will pass on the information to us through Wi-fi. And will also remove harmful chemicals from our body to prevent diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.

 

       Bitcoins have become a common phenomenon though we haven’t fully understood it. People have started learning about it.

 

       In the same way when there is a new technology we would be clueless regarding its usage. Will it simplify our lives? Or will it complicate things?

 

       Though we have such questions. There will always be new technology and we have to learn to live with it.

 

        When Kodak was at its peak it had 1,40,000 employees. And it was the livelihood for a lot of families. But, after the advent of social media. Kodak almost disappeared from the radar.

 

       Facebook brought Instagram in 2012 for 12 billion dollars. It had only 12 employees at that time. In the same way, our jobs will also undergo a massive change in the future.

 

       Jobs will be redefined and will not disappear anywhere. But, we have to be equipped to handle change.

 

       The lion or tiger cub before it grows big and begins to hunt. The mom of the cubs often teaches survival techniques by playing them as games.

 

       The cubs learn their survival skills, hunting, and fighting techniques only through games. Artificial intelligence will first be made to play games but, beyond that, it will even start to guess what we are thinking.

 

       It will also analyze its own thinking to get different outputs. Enhanced artificial intelligence is on the way. But, we can still teach a machine a lot of things.

 

       But, we might have our own doubts. To create something like us we have to understand ourselves fully. So, there are lots of efforts being taken to make artificial intelligence understand the human brain.

 

       To enhance artificial intelligence, we have to know ourselves better. We are still getting to know a lot about human psychology and the human brain.

 

       If you consider the brain as hardware, then our mind is the software. A lot of binaries are being worked out for artificial intelligence to understand the human brain.

 

       But, the question is whether robots can be made to think like us. Alun Turing believed that it will happen and we are working towards that.

 

       Can the robots imbibe our moral values? We might feel that something is right at one point. The same thing might feel wrong at some other point. The question is whether robots can process all this.

 

       If such a perfect robot can be created, then its capacity will be greater than humans. For example, if a car without a driver causes an accident. Who will we blame and how do we frame the rules?

 

       Will we blame the car manufacturer or owner? Or will we blame the company? There is may such doubts.

 

On the other hand, if we are driving on the road. If there is a pregnant lady passing by we will give importance to her. Or if it’s a child we will drive even more carefully.

 

The question is whether robots can do critical thinking. Though we think a lot along these lines. Technological advancements are constantly happening.

 

Atul Jalan insists that we shouldn’t show our frustration with the machines and gadgets if they don’t work. We have to treat the machines right, as being in the good books of the machine might be useful for the future.

 

To know more about artificial intelligence. And to figure out whether we really need a happiness pill in the future. Happiness is different for different people. As our chemical levels are different.

 

Our happiness pill might not be suitable for everyone. But, we might get the happiness pill that we need and might start eating it.

 

       If you want to know more about this or if you have questions about the future. And if you really have the question “where will man take us?” then this book is your answer.