Angel of Death Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 t’s 2064. A Queensland great-grandmother, let’s call her Lisa, is sweltering in her living room as she waits for a driverless car to take her to hospital. Her robot carer delivers water and medication while a nanobot circulating in Lisa’s bloodstream sends real-time health data to her doctors. Lisa’s health crisis was sparked by a recent bushfire, a regular problem by mid-century. The air is still thick with smoke and the temperature has broken 48 degrees for the second time in a week. Heat from the fire destroyed her solar-power system and her home’s air filtration and cooling systems have failed. She is struggling to breathe and heat stroke is setting in. Even at age 98, Lisa lives alone. More than 4 per cent of the po[CENSORED]tion is now over 85, up from around 2 per cent in 2000, and it is common for Australia’s elderly to lead independent lives. But after a conversation with her doctor via hologram, it is decided Lisa will head to hospital to stabilise her vital signs. As she waits, Lisa uses the computer interface embedded in her brain to message her children, using just her thoughts, updating them on her health. It is all so different to the 2020s when Lisa was caring for her own mother — tapping on the window of her aged care home during the COVID pandemic, trying to sync up a charged iPad with an internet connection and an agreed time to chat over FaceTime or WhatsApp. How wonderful it would be to chat to her mother now, Lisa thinks, as she opens an app and calls up the digital clone of her husband Dave, who died four years ago aged 101. This digital twin sounds exactly like him and is programmed with hours of memories, ideas and opinions that can be used to generate conversations years after he has passed away. As Dave’s holographic image sits before her, they talk through happy memories together and he counsels her to stay positive while she waits for her transport to arrive (solar powered, of course). https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-20/future-ai-what-will-life-be-like-in-2060s/103408964 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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