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With each example we see a trend towards making technology less like a tool that is a separate entity and more like an extension of the users. It might be clear by now where I’m going with this. A favourable UX has minimum to no interface interaction. This makes technology more accessible and overall enjoyable to use. However, the examples mentioned above are making the interface completely “invisible”.
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Freshly emerged from the HCI for UX program at MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, I am brimming with ideas for exploring emerging technologies. One area that continually piques my interest is the future of screenless interactions.
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WebXR is a technology that allows three-dimensional experiences directly in your browser, with or without additional devices. It streamlines access to immersive experiences by eliminating the need to download specialized applications or use specific hardware.
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In the near future, the gap between magic and technology will continue to narrow. Augmented reality (AR) will become a central part of our lives. We will share our physical space with three-dimensional digital objects, and it will be difficult and even impossible to distinguish between them and physical reality.
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Not so in solarpunk, an alternative vision emerging on the internet, which dreams of a more hopeful future for people and planet. Solarpunk’s central premise is that there are ways for nature and tech to exist in harmony—we just need the imagination and motivation to make it happen.
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“Trying to anticipate the future is like driving on a winding road at night. You can see what’s in front of you, and things in the distance ultimately come into view as you move forward. But beyond that, you can’t know,” they say.
They worry this kind of thinking overlooks present-day problems and could even be used to justify harmful actions if they might benefit future generations.
To understand the best way to think about what comes next, Inverse contributor and tech journalist Becca Caddy spoke to philosopher and eschatologist Émile Torres about the future and the inspiration for their upcoming book, Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation, which is due out in July.
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Hosted on the virtual social platform ENGAGE, the “Eat, Sleep, VR Repeat” event featured everything from captivating visual effects to original animations, all of which were designed to immerse audiences in the mind of the veteran musician and record producer.
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In 2022, over 700 top academics and researchers behind the leading artificial intelligence companies were asked in a survey about future A.I. risk. Half of those surveyed stated that there was a 10 percent or greater chance of human extinction (or similarly permanent and severe disempowerment) from future A.I. systems. Technology companies building today’s large language models are caught in a race to put all of humanity on that plane.
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Utah has become the first US state to require social media firms get parental consent for children to use their apps and verify users are at least 18. The move comes amidst heightened concern over the impact of social media on children's mental health. Ari Z Cohn, a free speech lawyer for TechFreedom, said the bill posed "significant free speech problems". "There are so many children who might be in abusive households," he told the BBC, "who might be LGBT, who could be cut-off from social media entirely."
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Like self-sustaining fusion power and full self-driving cars, in the last decade virtual reality (VR) has joined the ranks of technology not quite living up to its promise. While VR headsets, games, and even workplace applications have grown in recent years, widespread adoption of this technology at the rate of something akin to smartphones is still a far cry away.
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