You Are Already Living Inside a Computer

Futurists predict machine ecstasy, but reality defeats them by turning computers into lifestyles.

Suddenly everything is a computer. Of course there is also a TV. There are also toaster and door lock, baby monitor and juicer, doorbell and gas grill. Also a faucet. Even in the garden hose. Even trembling rotors. "Smart" gadgets are everywhere, and the computed gospel spreads to everyday things.

Either way, this is enough to make the world look like a new one. But quickly, the question appeared. The key of the bicycle operated by the smartphone and the propane tank are really necessary. Of course, they do not require less reliable gadgets than the "stupid" gadgets they replace. This is a lot of smart device crime. But people seem to really like them - and increasingly. There are billions of connected equipment representing the market that could reach $ 250 billion by 2020.

why? One answer is that consumers buy the products they offer, and manufacturers are keen to make smart their dumb devices. By doing so, they can increase the opportunity to make more income, more control, and plan to become outdated. It also creates a secondary market for data gathered through these devices. For example, Rumba wants to guess a floor plan through its robot home vacuum cleaner movement so that it can be sold as business intelligence

However, the enforcement of the market is not a complete explanation. More importantly, the computational aspects of ordinary things have become their goal, not the means to achieve them. As you extend from desktop and back office to pocket, camera, car, door key, people like to move computers to more general things. The more people want to do everything with a computer, the more life will be incomplete unless it occurs within them.

Until a while ago, I was called a propane tank scale called GasWatch, which connects to smartphone applications. It is expected to avoid the threat of picnics due to depletion

So, what if this were the case? What if this life is just a real simulation? What if you are reading computer in computer with incredible meta behavior? Once inserted, the mind will disappear above us - I can not imagine that we will emerge from this conflict. "What if you can not wake up from a dream, how do you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?" Ask Morpheus in the matrix. Dodd But now the researchers say they have doubted the whole situation for us. Theoretical physicists Zohar Ringel and Dmitry Korvizhini of the Racah Institute of Physics at Israel's Hebrew University and Oxford University in the UK claim that our reality is evidenced by recent advances in science.

There is a view that we live in digital simulation. It is a huge computer program about the size of the universe. The simulation started to run long ago and from time to time we have created in our ancient past that the virtual reality we are looking at is our daily world. This idea had a major impact on the core of what we care most about, such as healing and disease from war and peace, life and death, religion, gods, angels, aliens and UFOs. It seems like an SF movie until I start thinking about evidence from different cultures. I would like to clarify that I am not a follower of a particular tradition, but I respect them and I will give them a chance to discover new clues that teach me more about the world we live today Use. That is why I have to do this forbidden question - is every day in our life really likely to occur in quasi-reality?