Are we in the process of integrating with the machine?

The American Conservative magazine published a report in which it talked about the growing manifestation of human indulgence in digital life and their quest for more integration with the machine. For example, some parents in China have demanded that students wear headbands capable of reading the brainwaves.


The headband "Focus Edo", which is capable of reading brainwaves, is one of the latest innovations of the emerging American company, Brian Ko, located in Somerville, Massachusetts. The company's video shows that in a traditional classroom, it is difficult for a professor to understand how well students understand and understand the material. But with Focus Edo, teachers will be able to easily see the attention of their students at their place.

Just thinking about the possibility of inserting a device into your head is frightening, and the same applies to various brain-related techniques, from electrolyte therapy to deep stimulation of the brain. Brain stimulation dates back to the first time a person drank coffee, observed the effect of caffeine on the brain, and adopted some drugs such as marijuana and steroids.

Focus Eyedo has been on the market for nearly two years, and the manufacturer has other products for physical training and brain stimulation. But to date, the effectiveness of these devices has yet to be seen, and to what extent can they harm humans. But Chinese parents' demand that students use the technology raises doubts about the technology.

If teachers can monitor students by adopting these techniques, the state can do so, the magazine said. Imagine the amount of data that China can collect by including Focus on the social security system to monitor the behavior of its 1.4 billion citizens.

Over the past few years, China has detained nearly 1 million Chinese Uighur Muslims.

No one knows how the Chinese government can use this technology to monitor its citizens.

The Chinese government has been locking up millions of its citizens for years before the advent of massive data, the magazine said. Modern surveillance techniques, including surveillance cameras with facial recognition technology, are simply a tool to strengthen the authority of the Chinese government. Imagine what might happen when the latest technologies combine with an old-fashioned tyranny, which calls into question the fate of freedom in China.

The magazine questioned the possibility of using this technology by the United States and Western democracies, and whether this is a loss of freedom. Freedom is one of the values ​​that the United States has fought for in recent decades and has tried to spread and share with the rest of the world. It should be noted that earlier predictions of fascism, bureaucracy and communism in the elimination of freedom were found to have been exaggerated.

The rise and spread of the Internet have brought to mind once again these freedom-related bets, with the dominance of digital sovereignty and its effects on privacy. It must be asked whether the information age casts a shadow over everyone, whether in the East or the West, affects them, and reshapes their civilization.

In his book "The Third Wave," published in 1980, author Alvin Toffler said that the first wave in human history was the "agricultural revolution" that established a certain way of dealing with the world around us. The second wave was through the "industrial revolution" that changed everything, and predicted that the third wave is with the "information revolution", where humanity is witnessing a process of cultural reorganization.

The magazine indicated that, based on the above, it is fair to ask whether we are gradually integrating with the machines. If not, how can we explain our inability to separate from our bodies that we hold in our hands or those around our wrists, or in our ears, or perhaps encircle our heads?

In fact, a way of relating to technology today may be one of the manifestations of our immersion in the digital world forever. By spending most of your time with a small screen, the real world may become scary.

The magazine pointed out that computers based on a binary system would contribute to the strengthening of the hardness of authoritarian regimes. The obsessed people who designed these techniques may feel revolutionary, but according to Toffler's truth, computers and codes are about geometry, which is just a set of rules.

As digital technology works better than its predecessors, both in producing wealth and making choices, it is not surprising that human civilization is sailing on this third wave, challenging the rocks and the dangers involved. If we are already witnessing the third wave, there is a fourth wave of supernatural robots to serve and protect human beings, according to Jack Williamson's predictions in his 1947 science fiction novel, "Hands Caught."

In conclusion, the magazine asked about the possibility of human recall of the "hands of the dead" as accurately predicted the occurrence of the fourth wave, which means the acquisition of robots on the world, or literary work to urge mankind to reflect on the technologies that innovate and who holds the reins, The third wave. There is no doubt that this is the question of the times.