Ironically, only a day or two after writing the previous post about digital excess and transience, I saw this TED video (see below) by Adam Ostrow from Mashable on how our digital selves - that is all the content we have created and uploaded during our lifetime - will be replicable by machines, to the extend that robots could continue producing content in our style long after we're gone.
What Adam, or the people he refers to, forget is that our online selves are often not our offline selves. Our online content might be, as this blog aims to be, focused on a specific subject and not a general insight into our personal lives.
We may choose to publish nothing at all about our families, friends and home life.
Equally, we may choose to only show photos of our children and never talk about our professional lives...many still not seeing the value digital holds for every type and sector of business.
What would be interesting, however, is if the robots could be trained to produce content in our style while we're alive. If the robots could be trained to do our work for us. If the robots could be taught to give us more free time, to do with what we wish...
What if a robot had written this? Would it know when to stop (I rarely do)? It would probably produce better and more logical tagging... and importantly... it would allow the world to see what a wealth of opinions I have without me having to think of them...
...roll on the future...
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