Author: ЗАР ИЛЬЯС БЕКАРОВИЧ | ZAR ILYAS
From the author:
A little fantasy on the topic of how the day of a man from the future will be held. The author is not an expert analyst.
A fourth-year student of the Law Faculty of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University named after the first President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin presents to you his modest creative forecast for the future.
Thank you for your attention and have a nice reading.
The morning began with the quiet hum of electric cars, penetrating the transparent air of the city that towered above the ground. Olympus was finally completed in 2100 and took to the skies by the end of the following year. Steel skyscrapers sheathed with a thick layer of glass and various wires gave a glint in the eyes of drivers passing by cars and airplanes. The sun gently embraced tall buildings covered with green spaces that conduct electricity through themselves. When I opened my eyes, the first thing I noticed was a cloud. Since the city is in constant motion, you can often see a mass of steam and ice rising in the atmosphere. The smart home system recorded my awakening and a minute later the robot assistant cooked breakfast. By the frequency of my breathing, the "electronic assistant" determined my mood and turned on relaxing music. After plugging in my smart glasses, I checked my plans for today. One of the important things on the schedule was a meeting with colleagues from different parts of the world – we gathered virtually using advanced holographic conference technologies that transmit up to 98% of the picture accuracy. And yet, even despite all these technologies, I still need to show up at the office, so to speak, "for show."
Going outside, I breathed in fresh, transparent air thanks to an innovative cleaning system. Life was in full swing around me: people in super-technological clothes disappeared in the whirlwind of everyday bustle. I raised my hand to call a drone taxi. Soon, a small, elegant device stopped in front of me, which is an armchair in a spherical capsule, offering a cozy space for moving.
I was met in the office by a virtual assistant, an artificial intelligence created exclusively for certain purposes, which tells me what is on the agenda.
It is worth noting that people deliberately abandoned full-fledged AI. With the development in the field of AI, there have been some expected consequences. Artificial intelligence did not succumb to the will of man, as it had its own opinion and its own views on some problems, which led to insubordination and failures, repeated failure to fulfill instructions from the AI leadership. The mess got worse when an administrative-type AI instructed a subordinate colleague to create another one, and he another one. Moreover, at some point, artificial intelligence was no longer limited to the administration, but switched to production. The creation of robot assistants-police officers, firefighters and many others led to very disastrous consequences. The townsfolk did not notice the difference, neither did the top, and no one dared to believe the units. However, when a full-fledged artificial intelligence came to power, that is, it became a control-type AI, the most dangerous changes in the world began to occur. Saving on everything, irrational and even to some extent impossible daily routine of the working class, juggling laws with respect to the rich. And if people played it all taking into account the local situation, then only the global picture was important for AI, so everything they did eventually became a stream and turned into a literal and most direct violation of human rights.
In the end, everything was solved by introducing the latest virus and zeroing the network. Everything had to be founded anew. All the sites, all the cells, the ordinary AI, on which society was based at that time, were being built in a new way. But they introduced a worldwide law banning the creation of full-fledged AI (which meant AI with its own will, generating independent ideas or planning something without a human command). But just ten years later, people learned how to copy consciousness into the digital space. This meant that during a person's lifetime, a digital copy was considered a simulation and was not launched until he died (after death, the remnants of missing memories in the clone are filled in through downloading information from the corpse) and a fully digitized one could continue to live for another ten years. The problem was only in development. The virtual assistant, which was the name of almost the whole species, could not perceive too much new information, he had a memory limit, and he could not delete anything, since the mind is a kind of game with a finite code. After reaching the limit of memory, the reverse report began in a few years, and after that the digital mind died. That is why people with a lot of knowledge have been appreciated so far, since everyone's limit varied from the quantity and quality of knowledge, and the number of initial zeros and ones is different for everyone.
Of course, there were cases when a person could ask for a copy to be included during his lifetime, then he created an assistant for himself (since it was considered slavery in society to give himself to anyone for absolute subordination).
Some believe that the virtual mind is another stage before the afterlife, others that it is a mistake of humanity. But only one thing is clear: since then, the world has not been the same as it used to be.
All the buildings in our city were the same, there were no differences in layout, appearance, or even structure. The right building could only be found by the number on the ground floor from the outside.
Together with our colleagues, we started our meeting as if sitting in the same room, although we were distributed in different parts of the planet. Holographic projections allowed us to discuss the details of the project as if we were standing next to each other. Thousands of small three-by-three rooms with moving floors resembled empty rooms, but once a person entered them, they became an entire audience with augmented reality. It was called the "modern hive." The anthills of the past were nothing compared to the current possibilities. Bees were always taller than ants, and while the latter ate what they could on earth, the first was enough to leave the cocoon to get nectar, and then fly back. That is why they were not called Anthills 2.0, namely Beehives, "Bee houses", if convenient.
In the evening, I returned home, where dinner was already waiting for me, prepared by an autocue according to all my preferences. Artificial meat with artificial alcohol, and for dessert a cake according to the recipe of nano-molecular cuisine based on artificial milk and berries. To the sound of pleasant music, I watched the news of the world, amazed at how rapidly technological progress is changing.
On one of the countless channels, they talked about the main issues of our time:
1. How long does the average person live? A hundred or a hundred and fifty years?
2. The problem of overpopulation, colonization of Mars and other planets of the solar system.
3. What about jobs? Where is the overabundance of handyman staff going?
4. Disaster or a way out of it? Global earthquake, frost, warming, floods.
5. Changes in people's attitudes towards morality and ethics.
6. The most basic human qualities of the 22nd century.
Looking at my old TV, which I inherited from my grandfather, and that from his grandfather, the future seemed to merge with the present, creating comfort and convenience in every aspect of life. It's like we're already in the future.…