A reflection of a reflection

A reflection of a reflection 

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This is a reflection of a reflection I made a couple of days ago, in this article I wrote “A reflection to the fact that search engines could be controlled by artificial intelligence in the future”.

It was a bit dark with a sad prediction of the future of search engines and what way AI can affect us and our free will.

After some thought, I think I have to change my mind and my dark mode. 

There is a reaction to things we see, use, or how it is around us. 

I remember I thought my parents were stupid and boring watching TV every evening, never reading any books, never exposing them to new experiences, and thinking their lives were enough.

But for them, that was a relief as to how hard their parents once were working, and a reaction to that life.

My reaction to my parents was not watching TV, doing stuff instead, reading books, and wanting to learn new things.

I can say, now I am living the same life as them, watching TV in the evening tired after work.

But I still have the curiosity of learning new stuff. I always have a couple of hours every night, to read something, learn something, or do something. I will never think it is enough.

Okay, that day I die. I have no choice.

Every action has a reaction!

When digital cameras came, I thought it was the ultimate development from the slow photography there was before.

I could take a photo and have it in my hand at once. It was cheap; at least I didn't have to pay for the film and its development. And I didn't have to wait to see the result until it was developed and in my hands.

Earlier, It could take a week before I could see the result.

And now, I could take many photos of a situation, and at least one was good.

So, I put my analog cameras in a box and into a cabinet and forgot them.

A few years later, my daughter asked me if I still had my cameras.

I searched and found them. She took them and is using them now. She also bought a polaroid camera she is using.

I can sometimes miss the excitement of waiting for the photos to be developed and having them in my hand as real paper photos. Now they are in a cloud somewhere, and it is hard to find a photo from a special occasion. 

Still, it is fun to find an old album with paper photos, sometimes with comments, reading, looking around at the photos, and remembering.

It isn't the same looking at a desktop, tablet, or on phone.

I read somewhere that in the USA and UK, LP records are selling more than CD records, with artists like Taylor Swift, Adele, and Olivia Rodrigo. Even if records are not selling much at all compared to what they did before, this could be a kind of indicator of interest in analog technology.

Some people say that is a kind of elitism. 

I don't think so, I believe it is a longing for the genuine, something that stays, something physical, something real.

Many blogs are now produced with AI tools, and if all the connections we would have been made by AI tools, even search engines, if it would be so, there is going to be a reaction to that, I am sure. 

Humans need human interaction. 

I know that AI is here to stay, at least for the information we need, and there is probably going to be a rise in the use of that technology, but at some point, we will be tired of the technology in those areas where we use our creativity, at least some of us.

Productivity is interesting, and earning money is interesting, but if that is only what we are doing without any creative output from ourselves, it would be boring in the end.

And the direction of our thoughts would change.

We need a slope to climb, to strengthen us, for the meaning of our lives.

Is that slope too easy to climb, we easily get bored.

What should we fill our lives with?

Alcohol, drugs?

Not for me!

Been there, done that, and lost a couple of years.

So I now feel confident that, in the future, every action has a reaction.

And that is the interesting part of being a human.