Since I’ve been playing on computers back in the 80s when the first ones came out, I’ve been watching the connection between humans and computers and the code behind the systems.
We got every game in my family, every new system including a self contained Astroids vetrex (note to self… look that up… ) game where we played and played in our early years into our teens. A Mac with floppy disks containing games that only used still screen shots to move between the transitions literally captured our attention for hours. There was no mouse, only a keyboard to type in a verb and then a noun. Ie: Move Rock > then it would take you to another still screen shot, with lines only as the graphic, across the window. So the entire game fit onto 1.2 MB which is insane in today’s thinking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_crawl
All of the games in between, my brother got them. I played on them. At the arcades came Space Invaders, Astroids again, PacMan and a few other quite addictive games. So this technology, none of it is new. Gaming is where a lot of it started.
Then came Zelda.
That had my brother creating entire maps and charts to remember how to navigate that labyrinth. Wow do I wish I had that. He was an artist in his own right and that thing would be amazing to see today.
In high school I took a computer course and wrote some code that actually ran on the one computer we had, college, too, wrote some code and it ran. Later the internet came along and I had to learn some code, by then I just wanted to get to the reason for having to do the code in .html and .php and .css to do the website design. Then WordPress came along and removed that need, now A.I. may be coming along to do who knows what….
Going forward, I have no idea what is about to happen, but I’ve ridden the wave all along, keeping up with social media and how it’s affecting our brains; phones and all of what has happened with our focus and time and attention and money and updates and and and… with those phones… which I have resisted since Day One with no amount of support, mind you, as a website developer.
In 2020 all of my clients had to close their doors, then open back up with limitations, slowly, with fear and uncertainty, some came back, but most of mine didn’t.
Something happened during that time while we went home to re-evaluate our lives and what was/ is important to us. I began my own research rabbit holes; since time is what was provided, I took it to learn.
YouTube has given me the opportunity to really, really look at a variety of perspectives without landing on any one conclusion, other than there is a shift.
I am in no means in a position to give answers, but what I’m going to begin to do is organize the information I am finding, resources where people are thinking about the future and trying to learn rather than closing off and saying “I just want to live in my bubble” because good luck….
I found this guy, speaking in terms of A.I. and how it can possibly go, I don’t know either, but he knows how to zoom out as well as I try to do, rather than get caught up in the daily arguments; because arguing isn’t learning. Talking isn’t learning.
Curiosity is ground zero for a higher IQ. People with higher intelligence are interested in just about everything. Some of it is innate and even that needs to be nurtured, as my granddaddy said while he beat us at chess and checkers and dominos, saying “use it or lose it.”
In an effort to understand A.I. myself and how this is going to take my own job, it already has… and so many other creatives around it, is it possible to dig deeper and see ahead that we will be STARVING for human touches and real reality, not fake reality?
The video below is good, and the comment section is interesting as well. Let’s turn up the IQ level, wake up and keep on learning.
Use it or lose it.
