NextLife™ Emerging…
With much publicity, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has introduced (and demonstrated) the next evolution of the internet: 3-D virtual animated images of individuals for (as an example use), group meetings. Facebook, Roblox See the ‘Metaverse’ as Key to the Internet’s Next Phase
But NextLife™ sees this as much more than just for group meetings (and believes Meta does too). Because if the creation of humans could be done via their own internal power source it would begin a virtual world unto itself. “The research thrust is referred to by the stakeholders as investigating “zero-power devices,” particularly important if you subscribe to the IoT vision of billions, potentially trillions, of wirelessly-connected devices… The collaborative research is geared toward making networks “truly autonomous”, by finding new power sources, specifically capturing RF waves from the air and converting them to energy for the system” What are cognitive networks?
Sensors that draw power from the environment, either to supplement a battery or to replace it, are starting to spread. Sensors that scavenge their power are all the rage (April 2, 2022).
NextLife™ believes this is a step toward NextLife™’s recreation of a sentient virtual being, used here in the “metaverse” as a conference tool but in NextLife™’s eyes it is the opening of a door to a virtual reality world from which humans may never die, “If technology succeeds in creating emotionally intelligent digital humans, experts say, it may forever change the way living people cooperate with computers… raising complex philosophical questions about the nature of immortality and the purpose of existance itself.” ‘Hey, Google! Let me talk to my departed father.’
Of God and Machines (Stephen Marche, Sept 15, 2022)
These are the extremely early green shoots of an entire future tech ecosystem: The technology that contemporary NLP derives from was only published in 2017 …The singularity is digital messianism, as found in various strains of Judeo-Christian eschatology—a pretty basic onscreen Revelation… Both visions are fundamentally apocalyptic.