| In an attempt to make interesting/bold predictions: - <10 yrs Google maps will use photogrammetry + Computer vision AI etc. to make 'street view' continuous, and you will be able to go anywhere and look with any perspective. New layers can start to be added, e.g. infrastructure layers that are captured from crowd sourcing from phones. - Music will be continuously generated < 5yrs. Within 10, can adjust to auto and manual inputs that nudge it in the direction you want. - <5 yrs - Business role-based email addresses automatically parsed and routed. E.g. most business bills captured and added to accounting platform. - Proper HUD AR glasses that are on an open-enough OS that allows hacking + easy app dev, so not a DOA product. Auto labelling of objects, live translation etc. will actually be well implemented and used by many people. - War is going to look even more terrifying, and the Terminator Salvation vision of hunter/patrol drones manning the skies is precisely what front lines will look like (except higher altitude). - Defensive war: Multi-layer iron domes start to be erected on nation borders, and we start to hand over to AI such that humans are not immediately/directly in charge of decisions. I.e. defence ops handled by AI, but tactics and strategy still directly managed by humans. - Offensive war: Opposing nations will start to talk re: agreements about a human needing to make final decisions - To what success I have no idea. - Low altitude airspace mostly managed by AI, drone swarms + coordination start to be seen as commonplace. >10 yrs Propellor noise to somewhat improve after massive push from citizens, and we eat some efficiency in the interest of reducing noise pollution. - 20 yrs Maybe... First AI enemy, i.e. a nation state 'battles' an AI that seems to be acting alone or cannot be pinned on a specific human group actor. Will be possible due to the 'scale' that AI affords, not the 'smarts'. - A Japanese citizen will be more likely to receive 'care' from a robot than from a human... This ratio mostly due to heavy use in eldercare. - We will hear of edge-cases (similar but smaller situation to tang ping + incel choices) where some people explicitly announce / decide never to interact with humans again, and opt to just interact with AIs only. - EU legislation that demands open/reviewable algorithms before products be legally available to EU citizens - 20 yrs: AI 'Oracles' that some people revere (just very insightful, accurate, consistent AIs that appear to exceed human wisdom) - 10 yrs: MSPs/IT providers will handle ~5x as many endpoints per employee compared to 2024 - Some very very crude prototype of 'inter-animal language translation' that people will want to talk to their dogs with, but it won't really add value for a long time and will mostly just be used for zoology research. |