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Related: About this forumHuawei Prepares for Robot Overlords and Communication with the Dead
By Bloomberg News
May 11, 2016 2:11 AM EDT
Chinese technology giant Huawei is preparing for a world where people live forever, dead relatives linger on in computers and robots try to kill humans.
Huawei is best known as one of the world's largest producers of broadband network equipment and smartphones. But Kevin Ho, president of its handset product line, told the CES Asia conference in Shanghai on Wednesday the company used science fiction movies like "The Matrix" to envision future trends and new business ideas.
Hunger, poverty, disease or even death may not be a problem by 2035, or 25 years from now, he said. In the future you may be able to purchase computing capacity to serve as a surrogate, to pass the baton from the physical world to the digital world.
He described a future where children could use apps like WeChat to interact with dead grandparents, thanks to the ability to download human consciousness into computers. All of these technologies would require huge amounts of data storage, which in turn could generate business for Huawei, he added.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-11/huawei-prepares-for-robot-overlords-and-communication-with-the-dead
2:14 video at link.
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)To Bill Gibson, my hero, inspirerer of the murderers of mankind. It'll be a hell of a ride.
rug
(82,333 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)I think we are going to see very large changes with climate disruption long before much of this happens. Maybe it will be the remnant that see's this.
Jim__
(14,074 posts)... even by 2041.
But then, I don't see The Matrix as a model for the future.