A decade of change is coming and Spatial Computing will be its user interface
I just spent an hour talking with a computer vision engineer at Magic Leap about how computers will "see" and "process" our world. Blew my mind. The 2020s are going to see more change in technology than ANY TIME before. Same for our culture. Same for our learning. Same for our manufacturing. Same for our transportation. A perfect storm of change is coming. By the time these nine-year-olds get out of high school literally everything about the world will change.
Our understanding of what it means to be human is about to radically change. The 2020s will make the 1960s, with its cultural, drug, and technology changes, seem like a minor hill of change comparatively.
Have our political, cultural, entertainment leaders done a good job of preparing us for this? No.
(I listened to how our political leaders grilled David Marcus this week, and I look at our movies and still don't see anything like an autonomous car chase, to give me the ability to definitively say that no one is really prepared).
Another way to look at it? Our nation's best school for criminal justice is John Jay College of Criminal Justice. My son, Patrick Scoble, just graduated. Did he learn anything about using augmented reality or artificial intelligence there? No.
Yet my friend Brandon Wirtz has already caught thousands of criminals with his AI system.
As Irena Cronin and I write a book about this stuff I realize that I'm struggling to 1. Understand the change. 2. Communicate it with our readers. 3. Get over the fear of speaking the truth about what these changes mean for everyone.
The 2020s are the change decade. Literally everything we do will change. Everything. Name one thing that won't be changed. I can't come up with one thing. Even going to church will change. Even going to a historic site will change. Even having a baby will change.
Lots of people will resist this change. The act of resistance will, too, be changed. Going to the bathroom will change. Eating will change. Taking a hike in the woods will change. Going to a concert will change.
Today I talked with one of the best surgeons in the world. He told me about how his work is radically changing. One away from using radiation to see inside tumors to one where a system is fusing a bunch of data streams together and helping him almost play a video game while directing a little cutting tool inside his patient's body while wearing a HoloLens. If his job is changing you can bet yours will too.
And, this is what happens when I stay sober for almost two years now (and off alcohol for more than four). That was painful change for me, and even rehab is radically going to change, because of Spatial Computing (for the better, the brain researchers I am talking to say, turns out VR and AR helps people change their brains far faster than anything humans have invented before).
Does this post scare you?
Remember, most humans hate change, and that fear of having to change is what you are feeling. Me too. But I'm quickly getting over my fear and seeing the immense benefits we will get by the end of the 2020s.
I might not be here, no one is promised that, but many of you will, and you will be in a wonderous world then. Might even be ready for Elon Musk to hook you up to the machine. I hope I am here to "jack in" to the new digital deities that are being built. Why? They will help me learn even faster.
"Hey Google, how can you help me change?"
"I can do lots of things, I can play a game, I can tell some jokes, or we can see what random fun comes our way."
(Actual answer to my voice question. Google gets it. So will we all).
Assoc. Dir Verizon CX Quality Assurance
5yI’m excited about change, spatial computing, 5G, MEC, MR, and all future enabling technologies we don’t yet known - that’ll usher in the decade of change described in this post. Good stuff!
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5yLove this article and it doesn't scare me, I relate to it and feel this way every day. Especially talking about all of the changes that are coming. While I am excited by the future, I see my own fears and experience them when drafting posts about AI. This article helped nudge me a little and made me want to seek out some conversations like the ones you are having - thank you for that!
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5yGeez Rob. Great article. You hit the nail on the head. We're headed for change whether we like it or not. I'm glad to see you talk so openly about the changes you're making in your life. I think more people need to look inward before they can see the world around them. It cuts across all domains. This is what setting a good example looks like. Well done.