Michio Kaku on Internet Wallpaper

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Michio Kaku on Internet Wallpaper

Michio Kaku on Internet Wallpaper

BY: Roger Harrison

Michio Kaku is author of New York Times bestsellers “Physics of the Future”
and “Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible” — the latter a 12-part series on
Science channel in the US.  Internet Wallpaper

He also thinks that in the not too distant future we, humans, will be taking the opinion of our wallpaper or perhaps our contact lenses on legal and medical matters. Internet Wallpaper

If that sounds far-fetched, it was the British science fiction author
Arthur C. Clarke, author of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” who predicted satellite communication 70 years ago and developed the three laws of prediction.

They are: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong; and the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

So when the distinguished (a theoretical physicist who assembled an atom smasher in his garage while at high school), elderly
(I can say that; we share a birth year) scientist Professor Michio Kaku predicts intelligent wallpaper, we had better pay attention.

Probably more generally known to the public as popularizer of science on the TV than being among the first to publish on multi-loop amplitudes in string theory, Kaku visited Saudi Arabia very recently.

The reason was more prosaic than super symmetry breaking at high temperatures in the early universe or super conformal gravity, but rather more related to his current role as futurologist.

He was in the Kingdom to share ideas on future retailing with a well-known food company and review the future of retailing as it might be with the developments of IT as they are now shaping up. Internet Wallpaper

“The aim was to have a look at increasing profits, outreach and effectiveness through the increasing use of IT,” he said. The company is one of the fastest growing retailers in the region. Internet Wallpaper

“We looked at the development of oil markets and — also their getting active in plastics — films, bottles and packaging,” he said.

Kaku applied to his thinking on company development the framework of his concept of “perfect capitalism.” Internet Wallpaper

The underlying contention is that capitalism and economic development is kept alive by an asymmetry of knowledge; if the seller knows something the consumer does not, there is a profit to be made. Internet Wallpaper

This is the “imperfect capitalism” of the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith and the driver of economies. Internet Wallpaper

“We’re headed toward perfect capitalism, the point at which supply and demand becomes perfect,” noted Kaku.

“Technology will be able to tell the consumer everything about the product
(informed decision making) and in a contact lens.”

Amplifying his thought, he said that the lens would scan all the products from reading chips in the packaging and inform the consumer on the cheapest, best product and what it really cost to make.

“It will turn the tide in the favor of the consumer, and he will know who is lying.”

Thus, the retailer’s advantage of asymmetry of knowledge is destroyed and equilibrium returns. Internet Wallpaper

To regain an advantage, a retail organization would have to increase branding and name recognition, reposition itself in the market relative to other products, do some serious data mining on consumer taste, preference and buying habits and a great deal of targeted marketing — using all the available technology.

“With the advance of the Internet, we will have infinite knowledge about who is doing what in any particular product,” said Kaku.

The other by-product of perfect capitalism will be transparency to the consumer about what is going on and thus, thought Kaku, access to information that would allow informed decisions. Internet Wallpaper

Is this a fantasy? Certainly not. Internet Wallpaper
Just think of the reaction tele (distance)vision would have had on even a highly educated audience a couple of hundred years ago.
To see on a screen in the palm of a hand and in real-time actions happening on the moon would have seemed impossible or magic and have the demonstrator nailed up to the nearest door or burned as a witch.

We do TV on telephones now, a practical demonstration of Clarke’s third law.

As to the Internet lenses, the technology is not available yet.
However, Internet glasses have just been released, the military have access to a helmet — the Land Warrior system — that provides Internet feeds of the battlefield and any relevant information.

A bigger and bulkier system than contact lenses, but give it time.

In less than a short lifetime, computers have downsized from machines the size of houses to the size of pinheads, and with more power. Contact lenses?
Given time, no problem!  Internet Wallpaper

“The upside for the retailer is that you can reach your customers, expand your brand, go international. There are also minuses.
Music industry, for example, insisted that people will always buy music the old fashioned way.

They are in denial. But they (consumers) do not do that anymore, they download it off the Internet,” Kaku pointed out.

The same is the case with Hollywood: Denial of the inevitable and eventual capitulation and the scramble to get a piece of the action.

The danger for retail generally is that people will go to the store, touch and feel the product and then buy on the Internet, at least with some products.

“The point I wanted to raise with the retailer was that you can ignore the
Internet, but you will go bankrupt. The point is to go with the flow, take advantage of the Internet rather than fight it or ignore it, because that is a prescription for bankruptcy. Internet Wallpaper

Your competitor will certainly use the Internet to sell products.” Internet Wallpaper

A lurking concern is the danger of information in the wrong hands, in essence, who guards the guardians? Internet Wallpaper

“The danger of the Internet is not Big Brother; it’s Little Brother, pesky neighbors, busybodies, people who want to steal your pass code,” thought Kaku.

A weak spot lay in the trustworthiness of the people that handle the information.

The weak spots were, he thought, privacy and the lack of top people guarding your interests. Internet Wallpaper

Michio Kaku on Internet Wallpaper

“I think that is temporary and the birth pangs of the industry.
All the top software programmers want to be billionaires like Zuckerberg, so they are not writing the day-to-day programs that protect your privacy and passwords. That’s only a matter of time before they see that a profit can be made writing programs that can protect the privacy of the consumer.

But right now, it is the Wild West. Internet Wallpaper
There are a lot of petty thieves out there,” he said.
On a more positive note, the Internet spread democracy, said Kaku, “and democracies never war with each other. Internet Wallpaper

Wars have always been between kings, queens and dictators — never two major democracies.” Internet Wallpaper

The upside was demonstrated in the Arab Spring.
“The Internet promotes the free discussion of ideas.
People say, ‘We don’t have to live like this anymore,’ and people in democracies do not want to fight a war. They’d rather just get rich and educate their kids.”

His conclusion was that the spread of democracy via the Internet did not mean there would be no wars in the future, but there would be a lot fewer.

Michio Kaku on Internet Wallpaper

With the rise in availability of the Internet as part of the human environment, humans will need to know less and be able to access more information.
With the externalization of knowledge, would the human mind reduce its capability of processing knowledge?

“Currently, noise (garbage) is the big problem of the Internet with idiots out there,”
said Kaku. Internet Wallpaper

“Wisdom is going to be the prized commodity of the future.

Eventually, people will get tired of the idiots ranting and raving and will crave wisdom.”

Currently the technology is new and people find it fun, but there will come a time when people will decide that they do not want that anymore and want real information.” Internet Wallpaper

Kaku gave the example of newspapers, noting that they used to make their money from advertising. “Now consumers get that on the Internet, and the newspapers are really hurting. Wire services and newspapers will have to offer what the Internet does not offer: wisdom. Newspapers will get smaller in the future, but concentrate on what they do best and offer wisdom, and that will be a prized commodity.” Internet Wallpaper

The Internet will affect almost every area of human endeavor, according to Kaku.
“People say that medicine will never be computerized, but it will.

Michio Kaku on Internet Wallpaper

Your wallpaper will be ‘intelligent’ in the future:
Go to the wall and ask your ‘robo-doc.’

It is an artificially intelligent program.

You talk to your wallpaper and it diagnoses 99 percent of all common illnesses, and that will reduce the cost of medical care.

Most people don’t go to their doctors before it’s too late, but this will offer
24 hour response and give early warnings.”
The same would apply to law and other professions as well.
“The computer as we know it will eventually disappear.
You will use the cloud and portals that can access the cloud — contact lenses and the like. Portals will be everywhere.”

So remember Arthur C. Clarke’s “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” and be nice to your flocked wallpaper;
you never know who is listening.  Internet Wallpaper

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