One of the reasons I joined Steemit is because I figure that in the future, everyone will have their own personal artificial intelligent super computer who/that will filter all information for them. People will be able to have access to all information available but will have someone/thing filtering the information based on their preferences, capabilities and interests.
So I figure that since the block-chain, as far as my mortal brain understands, is a permanent and unchangeable record, and as long as the internet exists and as long as memory is cheap. Why not put it out there.
But I also like that most people here seem to be somewhat civil. At least compared to ....some other places.
Thank's a lot for commenting and reading my post. :)
No doubt we are in ubiquity and perpetuity.
I try to create good content that my son can read in the future and be proud of it. :)
AI and perception filters of reality will help us fight the constant acceleration of information and excess spam, making difficult to turn the infinite growing info into usable knowledge to control reality, but there are natural limits imposed by nature and genetics to the number of peers, objects, and transactions we can recall and store.
I hate the idea that google already does this to a degree. You search something and it shows you what it thinks you want to see. This idea to me is awful and sick to the core. The greatest aspect of the internet is availability of information, but if that's cut and moulded to what an algorithm thinks you want..... leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Obviously it would be better if you can control the parameters of how things are smoothed out for your consumption but you would still lose the ability to stumble upon ideas and concepts or information that would never otherwise head your way.
I guess the way I think about it is that because there is/will be such a vast amount of information available that no human will have the ability to do much more than scratch the surface of even what interests them. Much less all the stuff that they haven't even considered might interest them.
I don't really mind that stuff is sifted for me. I still maintain the choice to click or ignore.
Often I am amused by what something thinks I want to see. Other times I am grateful for revealing to me to something that I likely would never have stumbled across myself.
What would, and to an extent does concern me, is the possibility of information being hidden from me or somehow censored.
I don't envision an internet future where the ability to define and refine your search for information will be usurped by machines completely. Unless that is something that you choose. I just envision machines making it easier to find what you might be looking for.
But then what the heck do I know?