As a software developer, there are days I feel like control is being wrested from us with each line of code we lay down. While machines become more efficient, we become more inept at even the most basic tasks. How many times do you catch yourself looking at your environment through the prism of your mobile device or your social network instead of your senses?
I’m trying to maintain a positive outlook about a future driven by technology, and not one that is careening to an eventual take over by our gadgets and our data. I have ‘some’ optimism that we’ll eventually be capable of putting to good use all this data we’re producing.
Is it wrong though, to think that there might come a time when we start looking at data footprints like we do carbon footprints? Where less is more? Deciphering data with our magnificent machines is the new gold rush. Perhaps, data is like ‘Space’. People will eventually discover that there are particles smaller than the smallest particle, and universes of universes — and that basically the answer is right under nose, while we chase the wind? Or maybe there is no answer, who knows.
Might letting machines decipher our data exhaust eventually lead to a machines perspective of the human experience? But machines are built by humans — hmm… conundrum.
