Two
interesting technological stories have developed this week.
Firstly,
a survey done in the US about narcissism has revealed that the more one posts
on social media the more self-involved one may be. They needed to do a survey to tell us that? It claimed that Facebook acted as a mirror to
the user’s perceived image whereas Twitter was more of a megaphone for younger
people’s opinions. My view is that
younger people just got fed up with seeing photos of themselves as babies posted
on Facebook by their parents and moved on to Twitter to escape it.
Secondly,
a British computer company has been sold to Google this week. The business specialises in Artificial
Intelligence, developing machines which can mimic the brain’s ability to
improve performance. Google have always
wanted to build a search engine so sophisticated that it knows users better
than they know themselves. Thus in the future, a large majority of search
queries will be answered without you actually asking. Handy - but what if your mind is like mine
and often on several tangents at any one time?
Will there be an algorithm suitable for my individual ramblings? It is quite likely that my mind might
actually short circuit the computer.
But
do you know what annoys me the most? It
might be easy to order food and have it delivered just by thinking it, but it
still requires someone to cook it.
Unless someone out there is developing a robotic housewife? Please let me know.
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