6/10/2023 0 Comments Machines like me plotThe present hardly has anything in common with 1995: Who can imagine a world today without the Internet, e-mail, music without CDs, digital TV, satellite navigation or minimally invasive surgery? New innovations are constantly taking us into new dimensions of controlling nature and shaping our lives that seemed unimaginable only a few years ago. But if you go about the same time span, a quarter of a century, from 1995 to today, into the future, you end up in a completely different world. Life in 1995 was not so different from that of 1970 - haircuts and other fashions had changed and overall there was more prosperity. In 2006, the American researcher and Stanford Professor Roy Amara formulated what became the “Amara law”: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short term and underestimate the effect in the long term”. There is a lot of discussion about new technologies, but few are able imagine how much we will be shaken up by them in the future. Most readers of novels, and probably also their authors, barely understand the details of technological progress that is developing at breathtaking speed.
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