Reconfiguring Reality: Toward an Internet of Actions
Reconfiguring Reality: Toward an Internet of Actions
Reality is up for grabs ...
Over the next decade, advances across the technology stack will combine to reveal a world where inanimate objects speak to us, bots act on our behalf, and networked machines negotiate with each other, hopefully with our best interests in mind. But what values should we encode into these intelligent objects and networked terrains? What do we really want from these billions of intelligent, autonomous machines who will soon share our business, social, and civic spheres?
As intelligent machines proliferate, they’ll enable us to reconfigure reality using increasingly sophisticated strategies ...
Data science and machine learning, aided by insights from psychology and neuroscience, will enable us to create new pathways to alter human perceptions. Ubiquitous sensing, coupled with utility machine intelligence built into every node in the network, will create opportunities to encode human activity in pursuit of profits, personal empowerment, social interaction, and legal enforcement. Advances in fields such as nanoengineering, 3D printing, and robotics will enable us to manipulate matter in places and at scales where humans have never been able to operate. And as voice and gestural interfaces become pervasive, new approaches to designing personality and emotional responses will emerge and animate objects and environments with entirely new kinds of experiences.
As these autonomous machines are introduced and search out ways to be valuable, we’ll come to understand their worth not simply through their ability to deliver information. They will form an Internet of Actions, where their value will stem from their ability to orchestrate complex, open-ended actions in myriad ways. But to what end?
The ability to reconfigure reality is full of enormous possibilities that will challenge us to push beyond familiar goals of productivity and convenience to imagine how to harness this Internet of Actions to optimize for a wider array of values and act today to make the future now.
This map is your guide to:
- Tour the future of the Internet of Actions by exploring the forecasts and strategies on the map.
- Imagine combinations of strategies and values, and immerse yourself in scenarios.
- Make the future now by playing the card game to imagine scenarios and artifacts for reconfiguring reality.
- Dive deep into the companion magazine Future Now to understand the opportunities and challenges these strategies create.
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