Media 1996, and What it’ll Be Like in 2035
A selfie or PTC with what was called videojournalism. One person to shoot, present, direct and produce media. I’m in Paris in 1996 and getting the strangest of looks. Where’s your camera operator? The person who took this photo I kindly asked if I could be sent the image afterwards (by mail).
Today the videojournalism mantra has been enveloped into several practices in mobile phones, social media productions et al.
Soon if we trend extrapolate we might be led to think that this approach 30 years ago will be delivered by avatars (virtual presenters). Otherwise we’ll all become even more prolific at capturing content.
People with AIs will take our jobs. AI, its hallucinations aside, gives no room for errors. Now we’re all pixel perfect. Someone in 2035 might ask what was it like to be human doing things like this?
I’d reply. We made mistakes, that was part of being human and we tried again. There was this site “Linkedin” brimming with self help posts and people writing about overcoming adversity. Words in the dictionary such as “will power”, “resilience” “ingenuity” meant something.
Not any more.
But there’s a parallel future that approaches us too.
A century ago with the introduction of cars, the horse population plummeted severely. No one was interested in our equine friends for transport, until humans did a volte face. By the 1950s they were rising again from depleted numbers. Recreation, companionship, actual horsepower to win races became popular.
Maybe, just maybe, they’ll be a premium for being human in an AI world, where we’ll crave the imperfections, chuckling n’ all, where to an extent irrational thought created by biological minds will draw our interest, and where standing in Paris reporting will solicit human interactions and new connections being formed.
Why would anyone want to be human? Because above all we can love the challenge of human endeavour in what we’re doing and the feedback from sharing. Just a thought!
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