A New Decade. Any Predictions?
10ren: - Spherical displays ("you inside")- Multi-core, with identical cores, is abandoned in favour of highly
specialized cores (like organs in the body, or firms in the economy,
due to the same pressures: "transaction costs" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Coase#The_Nature_of_the_...)- The first real AI is created, but isn't taken seriously until it
comes up with a revolutionary way of promoting soap powder,
which advertising executives describe as "blindingly obvious" in
hindsight. However, its success is tragically short-lived, as advertising
is mmediately redefined as not requiring genuine intelligence.
The search for real AI continues....- a formal theory of the "good life", that maximizes human
happiness - joy, contentment and satisfaction - is proposed.
To almost universal chagrin, it is experimentally tested...
and verified. A virtual reality game is created, based on the
theory. Massive hoards of users are anticipated, but no one plays
it. A competitor then creates a version with the suffering and
pain removed. It's a runaway hit.