{"id":22506,"date":"2017-05-16T17:25:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/My-story-Aspiration-Value-httpcompellingsciencefictioncomstoriesaspirationvaluehtml-shows-virtual"},"modified":"2017-05-16T17:25:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T17:25:21","slug":"my-story-aspiration-value-httpcompellingsciencefictioncomstoriesaspirationvaluehtml-shows-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/05\/16\/my-story-aspiration-value-httpcompellingsciencefictioncomstoriesaspirationvaluehtml-shows-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"My story &#8220;Aspiration Value&#8221; (http:\/\/compellingsciencefiction.com\/stories\/aspirationvalue.html) shows virtual&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My story &#8220;Aspiration Value&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/compellingsciencefiction.com\/stories\/aspirationvalue.html\">http:\/\/compellingsciencefiction.com\/stories\/aspirationvalue.html<\/a>) shows virtual assistants (&#8220;assists&#8221;) giving users visual cues as they go about their daily lives, directing their attention according to what their algorithms calculate are the users&#8217; best interests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t, at any point, talk about the hardware side of how that happens; it&#8217;s just there, because the interesting part is the effect of the technology, not the form of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My wife and I are making our way through Person of Interest on Netflix, and it&#8217;s struck me how the characters walk around in different parts of the city talking to each other just as a matter of course. That&#8217;s something that you couldn&#8217;t have put in a show set in the present just ten or so years ago, but now we accept it as a common convention &#8211; and it makes a huge difference to how stories unfold, and how the characters interact. How much more so if they could call up images of each other?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Via Lisa Cohen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Marcel Gagne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Make no mistake. This is where we are headed with personal technology. The smartphone that is today an extension of so many of us, will quickly, in a few short years, transform us all into cyborgs. Whether you see that as the end of humanity, or the next step in our evolution, is a question I leave to you.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/death-of-the-smartphone-and-what-comes-after-2017-3\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/death-of-the-smartphone-and-what-comes-after-2017-3<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        My story &#8220;Aspiration Value&#8221; (http:\/\/compellingsciencefiction.com\/stories\/aspirationvalue.html) shows virtual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-22506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sff-thought-starters","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}