Things is the name of our lives computerized everything. You can already buy Internet-enabled thermostats, light bulbs, refrigerators and cars. Soon, everything will be on the Internet: We have things we interact with things in public places, interact with each other independent of things.
These "things" will be divided into two parts. Some of which will be about our sensor and environmental data collection. Our smart phones already know our position, and with its built-in accelerometer to keep track of our movement. Things like our thermostats and light bulbs would like to know people in the room. Internet-enabled streets and highways sensor will know how many people on the outside, as well as their identity. Sensors will collect environmental data from around the world.
Another part of the actuator will be. They affect our environment. Our smart thermostat does not collect information on environmental temperature and who is in the room. They accordingly set temperature. Phone already know our position, and send back to Google Maps and Waze this information to determine where traffic congestion in; when they are linked to driverless cars, they will automatically solve the congestion problem for us. Amazon has autonomous UAVs hope to deliver parcels. Things will be more and more in our name for our enforcement action.
Growing without human intervention. The collected sensor data. Intelligence personnel system will interpret the data and figure out how to do it. The actuator will play a role in our world. You can use Internet sensor regarded as the eyes and ears, seen as the actuator Internet hands and feet, the middle of something regarded as the brain. This makes the future more clearly. The Internet can now perceive, think and act.
We are building a world-class robot without even realizing.
I have started this robot called World-Sized Web.
World Wide Web - I can call WSW do? - not just things. Most brain WSW server in the cloud will be connected via cellular, Wi-Fi, or short-distance data network. Of course, it is moving, because many things will move along with us, such as our smart phones. And be persistent. Maybe you can turn it off here and there's a small part, but fundamentally speaking, WSW is always open, and always present.
These technologies are not new technology, but they are becoming increasingly popular. I believe we are at the edge of the stage and change the information around the network. The degree of difference will be the kind of difference. That is WSW robots.
This robot will become increasingly autonomous, start simple and the increasing use of artificial intelligence function. UAV will fly with sensors to collect data where needed WSW. Vehicles with actuator will require reaching local impact of WSW. The other part of the robot will "decide" where to go, what data to collect and what to do.
We've seen this kind of thing in the war; drones are monitoring the battlefield and target shooting weapons. Still in circulation among humans, but for how long this situation? Moreover, when the data collected and actions taken by missile attack than the more moderate, autonomy will be easier to sell.
Overall, WSW will be a benign robots. It will collect data and do things for our benefit; this is why we want to build it. But we can not predict will change the way our society, some of them good or bad. It will bring the biggest profit to control personnel components. This will make it possible to totalitarian government. It will be new and different ways authorize criminals and hackers. This will lead to a change in the balance of power, social change.
These changes are essentially unpredictable, as they are based on, new features and new technologies throughout the world and we interactions between these interactions. In general, due to advances in science, technology changes it is easy to predict, but because of these technological changes, it is difficult to predict social change. For example, it is easy to predict a better engine will mean faster cars. Difficult to predict the result will be a population shift to the suburbs. Driverless cars and smart roads will be again in new ways to change our city, unmanned drones, cheap and ubiquitous environmental sensors and foreseeable demand for our network will change the city.
Maybe more like a WSW organism. It will not single-minded. It will be part of large companies and government control. Which will be a small part of our control. However, the behavior of large transactions will be unpredictable, which is billions of times between millions of tiny portions of their goals and the result of interaction.
We need to begin to seriously consider our new robot. The market will not solve all the problems on their own. Essentially, this is short-lived and out of the profit motive, while the broader need to think about these issues. University of Washington law professor Carlo Ryan (Ryan Calo) proposed the establishment of the Federal Commission robot, as a place to focus on robotics and recommendations within the government. Japan and South Korea have been moving in this direction.
As for another government agency who holds a healthy skepticism of speech, I think we need to go further. We need to create an institution that technology policy department to handle all the complex issues WSW. It needs power to gather expertise and advise other bodies, and may need to be as appropriate regulatory authority. We can argue the details, but there is no existing government entities have extensive and far-reaching solution to this problem of expertise or authority. The question is not whether the government will begin to monitor these technologies, but rather how they can become smarter at execution time.
WSW is under construction, no one noticed, appears in places we do not know. No matter what it means for social change, we do not want it to surprise us.
