Texila American University
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Asked 14 August 2017
Where will the world be in the next 20 years in the context of information and communication technological innovations
Where will the world be in the next 20 years in the context of information and communication technological innovations: If the present-day trend of ubiquitous Internet and perversive computing continue, what sort of society will emerge in the next 20 years and to what will it likely transform in the context of sociocultural evolution?
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Another interesting perspectives from Ulrich. thanks very much indeed. I believe there will be very useful insights in the materials you have availed; again thanks for freely giving them. I will take a look and get back to share, though it might take me a while because of the pressures of some projects that I am presently involved in; but l will certainly take a look because I know they hold valuable information.
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The quest for knowledge did not allow me to wait :-) . I have just seen report of the project on "Personal Knowledge Management Devices: The next Co-evolutionary Driver of Human Development", it is great. Kudos for that work! its contribution to the body of knowledge in the context of where the world is heading is great. I cant wait to see the full report of the 'Design Science Research for Personal Knowledge Management System Development is a project'. ...very wonderful pursuit with great values.
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Edinburgh Napier University
As Andrej says, the past couple of years have shown that human/machine interaction will be increasing.
Convenience and utility will increasingly permeate our lives and society. Not neccessarily always a good thing but I doubt we can shut Pandora's box in the sense that humanity will access it anyways.
It is however up to ourselves whether our intentions are for better or for worse. Education, especially ethical and philosophical will play major roles here.
Kind Regards
Roland
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Comenius University Bratislava
I guess if we knew this today, we would be very rich. What is sure, the IT will control more part of our lives than today. These days, we can tell that we are the ones who decide what is being shared and where. With certainty, I can tell that this will not be true in 2037. Maybe web pages will still exist in some form but probably they would be accessed only by voice, and various intelligent devices able to connect to the internet or other devices will be a standard part of everyone's equipment. Probably we will not even know where the information is located, using the URLs would be considered too complicated. Maybe we will be able to interact with our friend sitting at the other side of the world as if he was near us - seeing him (as a hologram), touching him. But most probably, this all is too conservative, and maybe we will be completely elsewhere. And what does this all do to human society? This is really hard to tell. But the sci-fi scenarios of computers or robots controlling people do not seem that far away.
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Edinburgh Napier University
As Andrej says, the past couple of years have shown that human/machine interaction will be increasing.
Convenience and utility will increasingly permeate our lives and society. Not neccessarily always a good thing but I doubt we can shut Pandora's box in the sense that humanity will access it anyways.
It is however up to ourselves whether our intentions are for better or for worse. Education, especially ethical and philosophical will play major roles here.
Kind Regards
Roland
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Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Artificial intelligence will increasingly hold sway and probably to a height unimaginable. With this our sociocultural setting will most likely shift from human relations to machine-relations. This may portend danger as man and machine may be more friendly and man will be using machine to hurt man, that is, if man's heart continues to be evil as is the case with the present rise in the culture of hatred increasing in our world. This points to the imperative of resolving every social inequalities now and urgently before they are coded into machines and it becomes irreversible.
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Texila American University
Wow! Very interesting perspectives from Andrej, Roland and Anayo.
One sure thing from your thought-lines is that there is no doubt about the emergence of the Cybersociety phenomenon with its deeply-rooted frameworks speedily evolving into a gigantic socio-cultural monster. Most likely, the research community is not that bothered about what sort of society will emerge from this evolutionary phenomenon propelled by endless innovations in information and communication technology, even with society's helpless and unbridled embrace of these innovations. No doubt, the Cybersciety phenomenon is coming with loads of goodies, convenience, precision, empowerment, efficiency, and lots more; yet, the challenges are also as innumerable. Unfortunately, many of us have tried to approximate such challenges to the key areas of data security, privacy and a few others without giving deep thoughts to the hydra-headed nature of each of these when simulated with the dimension of the speed and complexity of the innovations that naturally define their dynamics.
Have you imagined what it will look like when connection can be made wirelessly and seamlessly into someone's brain to extract or delete information with or without his permission. Many years back, no one will believe that laser surgery will someday be possible. At that time our worries will be more on what we can do to protect our brain from hackers and malware instead of worrying about our computers, IPADs, phones, servers, etc. ...just like when International passports were made to become e-passports and RFID readable, no one worried about malicious people reading even without contact with the passport or its holder, we are now at the point where you need special bags to carry your international passports to prevent malicious people from using remote RFID readers to read them or corrupt their data without authorization.
Now, imagine innovations where this same neural communication technologies and artificial intelligence systems are developed in manner that there may be no need to connect physical wires to the head, brain or body to access information from the brain. There may not also be any need for conventional schools for learning ....information can be formatted in a certain way and transmitted wirelessly to someones brain and he or she will begin to function according to the dictates of that information ....may be, like a medical doctor because all he need to know have been dumped into a corner of his or her brain. ....that sounds good? But, what if every thing in that brain is deleted, hacked, locked, or corrupted irrecoverably? If I like i can pot everything in your brain using Bluetooth to know all your secrete and passwords. If i like, I can delete, what i dont like someone's memory. I can even setup a clinic for formatting brain.
It is most likely that in the next 20 years knowledge would have so multiplied and innovations in ICT increased beyond what anyone can imagine today. Presently, information and vital thought patterns in human brain can be accessed electronically and processed with an appreciable level of precision; this technological innovation is currently being used to help those with disabilities through interface with robots as an interesting part of artificial intelligence works that support independent living. What if such interface can be made wirelessly without the consent of the individual and the brain ?
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Stellenbosch University
Thank you for your question and insights. Bearing in mind that although many powerful applications exist to locate vast amounts of digital information, effective tools for selecting, structuring, personalizing, and making sense of the digital resources available to us are lacking. As a result, the means to empower knowledge workers are severely limited and opportunity divides are further accelerating. In the context of human development, the over-abundance of information is the presently emerging, latest barrier to individual and collective development. Accordingly, I am advocating a novel concept and system in line with Levy's envisaged decentralizing Knowledge Management Revolution which gives more power to individuals and self-organized groups. While the first of the attached paper highlights the challenges of human develoment, the second provides the rationale for a novel approach to deal with this 'wicked' problem (freely available at (www.inform.nu/Articles/Vol19/ISJv19p345-379Schmitt2355.pdf). All the best, Ulli
Conference Paper Personal Knowledge Management Devices: The next Co-evolution...
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Texila American University
Another interesting perspectives from Ulrich. thanks very much indeed. I believe there will be very useful insights in the materials you have availed; again thanks for freely giving them. I will take a look and get back to share, though it might take me a while because of the pressures of some projects that I am presently involved in; but l will certainly take a look because I know they hold valuable information.
+++++++++++
The quest for knowledge did not allow me to wait :-) . I have just seen report of the project on "Personal Knowledge Management Devices: The next Co-evolutionary Driver of Human Development", it is great. Kudos for that work! its contribution to the body of knowledge in the context of where the world is heading is great. I cant wait to see the full report of the 'Design Science Research for Personal Knowledge Management System Development is a project'. ...very wonderful pursuit with great values.
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