{"id":70909,"date":"2016-09-18T07:30:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=70909"},"modified":"2016-09-18T07:30:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T05:30:33","slug":"tomorrow-is-good-carlo-van-de-weijer-the-inner-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/tomorrow-is-good-carlo-van-de-weijer-the-inner-world\/","title":{"rendered":"[TOMORROW IS GOOD] Carlo van de Weijer: The Inner World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is good.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer and Daan Kersten, E52 tries to find out what the future will look like. All four contributors<\/a> are \u2013 in addition to their \u2018normal\u2019 groundbreaking work \u2013 linked to the SingularityU The\u00a0Netherlands<\/a>, the organization that focuses on spreading knowledge about technologies that can provide solutions to the problems of our time. This Sunday, it\u2019s Carlo van de Weijer\u2018s turn.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Carlo van de Weijer<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"SU<\/a>This week the first Singularity Summit organised by SingularityU Netherlands was held in Amsterdam. A full house with techno-optimists, and that optimism is not there for nothing. If you see the\u00a0progress society\u00a0has achieved in recent years in terms of life expectancy, food costs, poverty, infant mortality, and the cost of living, you can not help but conclude that technology\u00a0has helped\u00a0humanity to\u00a0advance. This sort of\u00a0\u00a0good news traditionally travels badly into the minds of humans, as it is often blocked by our biological adjustment to give priority to bad news. If prehistoric man, whose skull took our last software update, missed the news that there was a lion behind a tree, this would immediately mean death. If he\u00a0missed the news that there was a hunk of meat waiting for him\u00a0somewhere, he\u00a0would only suffer some hunger for a couple of days. Bad news hits us harder, so we give it priority.<\/p>\n

But those positive vibes certainly didn’t mean that\u00a0during the summit there wasn’t also time and attention for the dangers of technology. David Roberts spoke\u00a0in his closing remarks about those dangers, especially when exponential technology\u00a0is combined with\u00a0a linear growth of morality. I strongly endorse him in this. As an\u00a0example, he pointed at the dangers of a simulated world. I also wonder\u00a0regularly if we are ready for this development. Recently, I was allowed to experience a demo of the latest Oculus VR goggles in which\u00a0I imagined myself in a battle between robots and other scum.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/xfdHAcnOnW0<\/p>\n

If you are witnessing something like this, you can only\u00a0conclude that a regular trip to a simulated world is much closer than we until recently\u00a0have been aware of. Because even when\u00a0this trip may have led\u00a0to a rather\u00a0apocalyptic and unrealistic environment, this\u00a0of course can\u00a0be tuned to any personal preference.<\/p>\n

And the authenticity will\u00a0certainly grow better in the future. At this point only sight and hearing are fooled by\u00a0virtual reality glasses, but with haptic technologies one could increasingly bring a more real experience into the simulation. And it only seems a matter of time until these\u00a0images, sounds and movements go directly to our\u00a0senses or, even better, right into\u00a0our brain. Just give me a nice summer day in Eindhoven\u00a0or any other city (although I wonder why); I choose only those people with an\u00a0appearance\u00a0that attracts me, I’m driving around in a\u00a0sports car in which I survive the most bizarre accidents and I eat the best of the best food all day long without being unhealthy or becoming fat; my simultaneously inserted\u00a0food preparations will take care of that. I really think this is going to come soon. The accuracy does not need to be more than that of our senses.<\/p>\n

Why should we still opt for our hard cold ugly outside world? The new inner world, that’s where you want to be.<\/p>\n

“We might already have gone through the stage of a takeover by a simulated world”<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If this simulated reality will really come to us this\u00a0fast, one might wonder why it is that we just ‘happen’ to live in this transition period. According to many liberal techies this could be so because we already have gone through the stage of a takeover by a simulated world. Elon Musk, not the least thinker, recently suggested that the probability that we are not<\/em> living in a simulation of life is about one in a billion. So take a look around and you might conclude cautiously that the inner world is already being simulated for you, in all the details that come with it… Apparently it won’t get any\u00a0better than this. And that’s good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is good. In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer and Daan Kersten, E52 tries to find out what the future will look like. All four contributors are \u2013 in addition to their \u2018normal\u2019 groundbreaking work \u2013 linked to the SingularityU The\u00a0Netherlands, the organization that focuses on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1618,"featured_media":70908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7809],"tags":[6889,484,7811],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-70909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-carlo-van-de-weijer-en","tag-innovation","tag-tomorrow-is-good"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Carlo van de Weijer","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/carlo-van-de-weijer\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-16-at-21.19.28-1-300x199.png","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Opinion<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Opinion<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Carlo van de Weijer<\/a>","innovation<\/a>","Tomorrow is Good<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Carlo van de Weijer<\/span>","innovation<\/span>","Tomorrow is Good<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 10 years ago","modified":"Updated 10 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 18, 2016","modified":"Updated on September 18, 2016"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 18, 2016 7:30 am","modified":"Updated on September 18, 2016 7:30 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Carlo van de Weijer","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70909"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=70909"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=70909"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=70909"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=70909"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=70909"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=70909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}