Vegas trade show highlights our future robot overlords; the farms of the future have no farmers; children's films that erase motherhood; influencers are the new media overlords.
I'm SOOOO glad that woman-like face is a bot. Gak! I first thought it was a plastic surgeon's drunken botch job, but AI gone bad is more like it. I find it nearly revulsive. Angelina Joli looks like that? Nah…
And the only farming that inspires me has largely fired John D and barely tills, plants cover crops, and cuts their "inputs" (read: chemicals) by large percentages as they boost their bottom lines enough to inspire even the most bought-in ag fanatic who's got his head buried in spreadsheets.
Fingers (and toes) all crossed that Joel Salatin gets his foot in the new administration and talks sense into the Washington elite, whose heads are lodged in barrels of pork.
Normalizing dependency on machines and AI is one of the goals for sure, and it's already happening. Many people I see around me can't even take a walk in the park without spending the entire time glued to their phones - literally not even looking up at what's around them. And I doubt if most under 45 can even read a map, or figure out where they are without GPS.
How many people bother to research questions or issues themselves, and instead just ask the AI bots, Siri, Alexa, etc.? And then accept whatever answer they are given by AI? The lack of independent thought and critical thinking is sad, but also frightening.
The Jeff Goldblum meme you included from Jurassic Park sums up the whole takeaway from that story - just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD! (Especially when one hasn't even begun to examine the myriad impacts on everything else, including the unintended and unexpected consequences).
That is a message the billionaire manipulators and techno-geeks have yet to absorb. They seem to forget that this world, its irreplaceable ecosystems, and our finite resources are not theirs to experiment with.
I read a short story by Neal Asher where farm machinery was autonomous, later made into an animated video in the "Love Death and Robots" series. Neal has a great imagination and his SF. is in a class of it's own. But entertainment aside, we need to be careful as we drift further away from our connection to nature and our innate biology. To be healthy we have to eat well, exercise, have a community and a purpose. Most agriculture is being automated and poisons the soil and us with chemicals. It's unsustainable in the long run but smaller biodynamic farms could give us a path to a healthy future.
Taylor Swift turned into Madonna really fast!!!
I'm SOOOO glad that woman-like face is a bot. Gak! I first thought it was a plastic surgeon's drunken botch job, but AI gone bad is more like it. I find it nearly revulsive. Angelina Joli looks like that? Nah…
And the only farming that inspires me has largely fired John D and barely tills, plants cover crops, and cuts their "inputs" (read: chemicals) by large percentages as they boost their bottom lines enough to inspire even the most bought-in ag fanatic who's got his head buried in spreadsheets.
Fingers (and toes) all crossed that Joel Salatin gets his foot in the new administration and talks sense into the Washington elite, whose heads are lodged in barrels of pork.
Normalizing dependency on machines and AI is one of the goals for sure, and it's already happening. Many people I see around me can't even take a walk in the park without spending the entire time glued to their phones - literally not even looking up at what's around them. And I doubt if most under 45 can even read a map, or figure out where they are without GPS.
How many people bother to research questions or issues themselves, and instead just ask the AI bots, Siri, Alexa, etc.? And then accept whatever answer they are given by AI? The lack of independent thought and critical thinking is sad, but also frightening.
The Jeff Goldblum meme you included from Jurassic Park sums up the whole takeaway from that story - just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD! (Especially when one hasn't even begun to examine the myriad impacts on everything else, including the unintended and unexpected consequences).
That is a message the billionaire manipulators and techno-geeks have yet to absorb. They seem to forget that this world, its irreplaceable ecosystems, and our finite resources are not theirs to experiment with.
I read a short story by Neal Asher where farm machinery was autonomous, later made into an animated video in the "Love Death and Robots" series. Neal has a great imagination and his SF. is in a class of it's own. But entertainment aside, we need to be careful as we drift further away from our connection to nature and our innate biology. To be healthy we have to eat well, exercise, have a community and a purpose. Most agriculture is being automated and poisons the soil and us with chemicals. It's unsustainable in the long run but smaller biodynamic farms could give us a path to a healthy future.
John Deer is also a bank. You can buy the above machine with just 240 easy monthly payments!