{"id":2069,"date":"2019-11-14T01:36:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T01:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kusuaks7\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2024-02-26T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T09:38:12","slug":"whats-the-real-effect-of-over-dependence-on-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/ai-ml\/whats-the-real-effect-of-over-dependence-on-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the real effect of overdependence on technology?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Like many of us, you too have probably read the horror stories about AI-based automation leaving less room for human thinking. Instead, try to imagine a world where automation releases you to think deeper and better than ever. How does that world look? Find out below.<\/h3><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHow come people don\u2019t demonstrate against escalators and elevators?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHow come trains and busses aren\u2019t forbidden? I mean, after all, they make us fat.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe World Health Organization is talking about a global obesity epidemic, they even made up a wonky word for it, globesity. They point out that\u00a0globesity has nearly tripled since 1975<\/a>\u00a0and estimate that 1.9 billion adults are currently overweight. Add to that another 340 million children.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStill, we don\u2019t seem to mind. Mechanical automation reduces our need to move and that speaks to our appetite for convenience. If you think about it, that job of yours \u2013 the one which you travel to every day \u2013 it isn\u2019t really work in the traditional sense. After all, if your job is work, then why do you work-out afterwards?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMechanical automation has slowly increased ever since the dawn of industrialization; hence we have gotten so used to the gradual change that we don\u2019t really seem to care. Digital automation, on the other hand, is coming much quicker. That makes people much more worried.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIf you google \u201creliance on computers\u201d you will get a lot of hits about all the dangers and effects of overdependence on technology and basically nothing about the benefits of relying on them. So, for example, you read about the chaos created when\u00a0IT systems at airports collapse<\/a>\u00a0or any number of essays and posts on the theme of \u201cAre we too dependent on computers?\u201d That is not at all the kind of response you get if you instead google for \u201cdependence on elevators,\u201d trust me.\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWith digital automation, becoming intellectually stumped is indeed a real worry among people. For this reason, we chose to highlight\u00a0mental obesity<\/a>\u00a0in our 2019 consumer trends report. As part of this, we found that 34 percent of respondents already believe critical thinking will disappear due to the overuse of virtual assistants. That is rather astounding! In my imagination, I see a world pulled straight out of the TV show\u00a0Little Britain<\/a>\u00a0where you are about to do something but then all of a sudden someone tells you that \u201cthe computer says no\u201d and you can\u2019t. Except there is no comedy to it, as in the mentally obese world, everyone accepts what the computer says without question.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBut given that we are more aware of the risks with digital automation than we were during mechanical automation, I would argue that we are instead in a better position to do it right this time. That is, without causing obesity of either kind.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlready now, digital automation in the form of wearables is being used to\u00a0combat physical obesity<\/a>\u00a0and, as shown in our\u00a0eco-me trend<\/a>, consumers also would like to use smartwatches to reduce CO2 emissions related to physical automation such as transport.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBut why stop there? There is a lot of gloom and doom around, but from my perspective much seems related to mechanical automation for the sake of convenience \u2013 and all the burning of oil and gas related to that. The\u00a0Exponential Roadmap<\/a>\u00a0report identifies 36 solutions which, if accelerated,\u00a0 could slash greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030. Importantly, they call digital technology a \u201cwild card.\u201d That means, we can either use it to rapidly transform our economic systems or to drive emissions even higher. It is up to us, right here and right now.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShouldn\u2019t our aim be to turn digital automation into an era of mental prosperity and agility rather than one of mental poverty and obesity? In doing so, we can instead focus on the important decisions we need to make.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWithout digital automation, I find it difficult to get the mental breathing space to even think about those decisions. I don\u2019t know about you but I am too bogged-down with routine decisions to even find breathing space for bigger thoughts. Imagine to not have to bother your brain with all that \u2013 everything from choosing which color soap to buy, to many boring but unavoidable work-related details \u2013 and instead being able to do a proper think-out every day rather than just that work-out you might be doing tonight.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn fact, 31 percent of respondents in our survey expect that we will have to go to “mind gyms” to practice thinking \u2013 but, hey, maybe that is a good thing! Just like going to the gym has been trendy for decades and having a personal trainer has become even trendier of late, going to a mind gym could be the next cool thing. In fact, mental coaches are already becoming\u00a0quite important in professional sports<\/a>, so there is no reason to believe brain training would have no impact on other people.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWould you, for example, be interested in having your personal guru? I would love that!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSo, if we play this right, we could be entering a golden age, where philosophy comes back in fashion and digital automation liberates us from the daily decision-making rat race to the point where we are mentally energized to really reflect on what it means to be humans \u2013 and what we need to remain being that.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\nIf that is a possible future, then I am all for the next wave of automation. Digitalization, bring it on!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOriginally published on Ericsson Blog<\/a>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mechanical automation reduces our need to move and that speaks to our appetite for convenience. Mechanical automation has slowly increased ever since the dawn of industrialization; hence we have gotten so used to the gradual change that we don’t really seem to care. Digital automation, on the other hand, is coming much quicker. That makes people much more worried. If you google “reliance on computers” you will get a lot of hits about all the dangers and effects of overdependence on technology and basically nothing about the benefits of relying on them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":672,"featured_media":2737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[97],"ppma_author":[3450],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-ml","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"authors":[{"term_id":3450,"user_id":672,"is_guest":0,"slug":"micke-bjorn-gmail-com","display_name":"Michael Bj\u00f6rn","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","user_url":"","last_name":"Bj\u00f6rn","first_name":"Michael","job_title":"","description":"Michael Björn is Head of Research, Consumer Lab at Ericsson."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/672"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36158,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/36158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}