{"id":17831,"date":"2019-05-09T13:28:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/?p=17831"},"modified":"2023-03-14T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T14:23:04","slug":"how-will-technology-shape-the-future-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2019\/05\/09\/how-will-technology-shape-the-future-of-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"How will technology shape the future of humanity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px;\">What will the future of humanity look like? Ahead of tonight&#8217;s Albert Wolters annual lecture on consciousness, autonomy and responsibility by philosopher Daniel Dennett, we asked five Reading academics what big changes to technology are going to do for us in the coming decades.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17838\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/clouds-1845517_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/clouds-1845517_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/clouds-1845517_640-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/clouds-1845517_640-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new reality through VR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social media has opened gateways of communication between even the remotest of places. Knowledge is digitally distributed and no longer situated in distinct geographical locations and under the supervision of experts.<\/p>\n<p>The sheer movement of words and images across digital networks has revolutionised the way in which we communicate with the world around us. But what might happen if more than our words begin to move across these digital networks? What if <em>we <\/em>could be transported through them?<\/p>\n<p>Virtual Reality (VR) is finally efficient and stylish enough to be mainstream, and virtual experiences now enable us to feel present in other worlds and interact with them.<\/p>\n<p>We can see, touch, and hear landmarks and artefacts that would otherwise be impossible to experience (for example\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/virtualrome\/\">Matthew Nicholls&#8217; Virtual Rome<\/a>). We can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7TXMQ2_0NAE&amp;feature=youtu.be\">navigate complex virtual worlds<\/a>, feel virtual objects and respond in virtual simulations of dangerous situations. We can practise complicated surgical procedures or even train empathic skills.<\/p>\n<p>In the near future, VR could provide instant access to the experiences of others and instant transportation to worlds that are as close to reality as possible, immersing us in the digital network now surrounding us.<\/p>\n<p>With the technology advancing at a remarkable rate, it might not be long before VR powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) changes the face of education, healthcare and medicine, entertainment, media dissemination and much more.<\/p>\n<p>We are at the forefront of an experiential revolution that will inevitably change what it means to be human and how we live our lives.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kathryn Francis, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Big brother, or no bother?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a vision of the future where the daily cycle of a traveller involves passing between different public environments. Such public spaces may one day be filled with multiple vision-based services offering a range of access, information, safety, monitoring, navigation or surveillance services. These could actively or passively support a traveller&#8217;s activities within each environment, and promote the collective well-being of these traveller spaces.<\/p>\n<p>My team and I in the Computational Vision Group in the Department of Computer Science are working on future technologies just like these. I\u2019m currently\u00a0leading the <a href=\"http:\/\/projectprotect.eu\/\">EU PROTECT project<\/a> on the design and development of contactless biometric-based on-the-move traveller verification for border security, enabling travellers to cross borders without stopping.<\/p>\n<p>The work is aiming to answer questions such as &#8216;h<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px;\">ow non-intrusive can we make identity confirmation systems for border security between countries &#8211; and how fast and useable can we make <\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px;\">these systems?&#8217; Also, what<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px;\">\u00a0are the limits on the use of these technologies in terms of cost-effectiveness and human rights?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/en\/computer-science\/staff\/professor-james-ferryman\">James Ferryman<\/a>, Professor of Computational Vision<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17839\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17839 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/PROTECT-image-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/PROTECT-image-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/PROTECT-image-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/PROTECT-image-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/PROTECT-image.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>A technical and user validation session for PROTECT held in Munich in February 2019. <\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>No longer in the driving seat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Autonomous vehicles will very soon become an integral part of our lives and many machines will \u2018see\u2019, \u2018think\u2019 and act in ways that have been considered to be exclusively human until now.<\/p>\n<p>My lab uses immersive virtual reality to study the way that humans build up a representation of the world as they move around. This is of interest to the designers of autonomous vehicles because the developers would like to replace the type of full 3D reconstruction of a scene that vehicles currently rely on.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they would like to use computationally light, task-specific representations similar to those that animals have developed. Neural networks now have become sufficiently powerful and pervasive that insights from biological researchers into the way that humans see and represent the world can be implemented in artificial systems with remarkable speed.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/psychology\/about\/staff\/a-glennerster.aspx\">Andrew Glennerster<\/a>, Professor of Visual Neuroscience<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Losing control of technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Technology is all around us and has the potential to be very useful \u2013 but do we feel in control of it \u2013 or do we feel a slave of technology? Are we in control or are the machines?<\/p>\n<p>The latter view prevails for instance when we find technology awkward. Who is not annoyed when websites insist you create an account before progressing? Or when well-known packages have a poor interface \u2013 for instance, a single mouse click used to open a dialog box to let you read a document in the current folder \u2013 now it takes four such clicks. What is worse, the large companies don\u2019t seem to respond when you complain!<\/p>\n<p>The more positive view is that we can enhance our life with technology \u2013 at work and in leisure. AI and automation have the potential to do some of the boring tasks, leaving us free to do what is more interesting, and hopefully have a shorter working week.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/en\/computer-science\/staff\/professor-richard-mitchell\">Richard Mitchell<\/a>, Professor of Cybernetics<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Albert Wolters Lecture, &#8216;Consciousness, autonomy and responsibility&#8217; will be delivered by Professor Daniel Dennett\u00a0 &#8211; a distinguished cognitive scientist at Tufts University specialising in the philosophies of mind, science and biology and is known as one of the \u2018Four Horsemen of New Atheism\u2019 along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens. The lecture is sold out but will be live streamed at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KOApAHhKCxQ from 8pm, 9 May 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Albert Wolters Visiting Distinguished Professorship is a prestigious honorary title, which takes its name from the first Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Reading (1908). It is awarded annually to internationally distinguished scholars in recognition of their world-class contribution to psychology, language sciences or neuroscience. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Previous recipients include cognitive psychologist and human memory expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v74njgJKcqU\">Professor Elizabeth Loftus<\/a>, internationally renowned intellectual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C4GNJKjDXsU\">Professor Noam Chomsky<\/a>, and Harvard psychology professor and popular science author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XRt-iYgXJP8\">Steven Pinker<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will the future of humanity look like? 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