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Future Sketches 1: Interfaces

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Imagine the not-too-distant future…

Where people have flooded back to San Francisco to enjoy a renaissance sparked by AI…

A world where people work less and enjoy life more…

Where the menial tasks are taken care of by our computers…

And we are free to pursue creative work…

Or help our fellow humans in need.

In this world, computer software is written not by elite hackers in the dead of night…

But by everyone, by having our computers fill in the boring details…

While we can focus on big picture and the high-level ideas.

In this world, computers become something different, something new, something magical…

Something that we’ve seen before only in science fiction movies…

But in this world, these technologies are not restricted to a few superheros…

They are free for all to use

They become a part of our environment…

Seamlessly taking care of the details of everyday life…

So that we can focus on the people that matter to us.

This world comes with its own challenges…

But in a world where most human minds are freed from the drudgery of mental labor…

Will we not solve them?

Author's notes

h/t to Empires by Scott Base for the artistic inspiration, and thx to @kanjun for many of the ideas