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GROUP KOSUBAKA

No one can see into the future. What we try to do is outline possible "futures" - although totally unexpected inventions or events can render predictions absurd after only a few years.

Society

The term artificial intelligence, or AI, was coined at the groundbreaking Dartmouth conference of 1956. But man's interest in the notion that a machine could be given the ability to think can be traced back to the myths and stories of the ancient world. The Greek myth of Pygmalion, who created a living statue, and the legend of the Golem, a clay statue brought to life by a Jewish Rabbi, bear testimony to man's curious obsession with playing creator. Of course, the idea that the ultimate artificial Intelligence will be finally created was purely hypothetical. As well as requiring an exceptional amount of storage to contain all the necessary rules, it also depended on the belief that the human mind could be defined in a finite number of states and that a rule table could be drawn up to emulate it. Many scientists rubbished this concept. But who knows what tomorrow might bring us…

Scene - 2 kids playing at the park with their artificial intelligent toy. One of the kids accidentally hurt himself and cried of pain. The A.I. toy automatically reacts to the situation and gives medical treatment (first aid) to the boy. Done that, the A.I. toy brings the hurt boy and his friend back home.
Boy 1 - (playing with his new toy - monstermon version 4.5)

Boy 2 - Hey! Is that the new monstermon?

Boy 1 - Yeah! My daddy just bought it for me yesterday! It's the new 4.5 version you
know! It has all the new features. Check this out… it can actually jump and
walk normally like us.
Watch! Jump monstermon, jump! (monstermon jumps)

Boy 2 - (watch in amazement and cried out in protest)
Hey, I want it too! Give it to me! I wanna try it!

Boy 1 - No way! Monstermon belongs to me and only me.

(Boy 1 and 2 fight with each other. They stop fighting once Boy 2 fell to the floor and broke his leg)

Health

Scene - An old woman (granny) is doing Tai-Chi. While doing so, she felt a sudden shot of pain in her chest. She drops to her knees and scream for help. A passerby who's jogging, come for rescue. He uses the technology that he has at that moment and save the granny's life.

Granny - (doing her Tai-Chi silently. As she did one big stretch, she suddenly felt a pain.
Grasping her chest, she grimace…)
Ya Allah! It hurts!

(she continued to grimace till she falls to the ground. Soon later a passerby who is jogging, saw the granny lying helplessly on the ground. He stop from jogging and approach granny)

Members of the house, if this incident is to happen 50 years ago. I would say the granny has a very slim chance of surviving such a sudden heart attack. As technology advances, the gap between human and machine closes, fuelling ever more feasible science fiction scenarios that inevitably provide us with new worries. To some, the idea of computer-assisted bodies fuels fears that we are all about to become automatons like the evil cyborg men made famous in the movie "Terminator". But such implants are no longer the preserve of fiction. One US-based company, Applied Digital Solutions, has already developed a microchip - dubbed Digital Angel - which was originally marketed as a tracking device for humans. The makers dwelt on benevolent uses of the chip - such as allowing doctors to monitor heart conditions. But such chips will only last within such a short period of time. In future, these chips will be built to last a lifetime. It is this nanotechnology that will in the end save our lives…

Jogger - Granny! Granny! Are you alright?

(Granny remains silent)

Jogger - Oh, my God! It looks like you do need help! Whatever shall I do?

(Jogger looks baffled. However, he soon got out of it and reach for his handphone from his pocket)

Jogger - Ah! I know! I'll use the new Nokia 111875 extended version, release only in
Sumatera Barat.

(Jogger dials something on the phone and uses the handphone antenna that generates electric current and pokes it to the granny's chest. Granny is alive)

Granny - Thank you child.

The scenario shown before is an example of wireless transmission network. Using a mobile phone that works hand-in-hand with medical chips is just the tip of the iceberg of what the wonders of future technology that will dawn upon us.

Fashion and Entertainment

Scene - A bunch of trendy and stylish teenage girls are watching a movie through their Personal Device Application (PDA). Suddenly, a fashion victim walks right passes them. Sensing a fashion victim, the group of teenage girls began taunting and making fun of the person's sense of fashion.

Girls - (a bunch of trendy and stylish teen girls meet up and start to comment on each
others appearance)

Girl 1 - Oh, my God! Is that the new Manta-ray glasses?

Girl 2 - Why, yes it is!

(both girls shriek and scream in joy)

Girl 2 - Ah, is that the new Barracuda sandals?

Girl 1 - Like duh!

(both girls shriek and scream in joy. Fashion victim walks into the picture)

Girl 1 - Look at him. He looks like he's from the year 2001!

Girl 2 - Oh, my God! That's like so true. I mean, what is he thinking wearing like that?
Does he expect us to swoon over him wearing like that?

Girl 1 - As if~!

(fashion victim ignore the girls and sit at a corner of the park and takes out his Personal Device Application (PDA). He watches a movie using it)

Today, the third-generation, or 3G, mobile phones only offers faster data transmission, CD-quality sound and video services. While in the future, 4G phones are expected to offer high-performance streaming of multimedia content and to feature ID applications that would effectively turn a mobile phone into proof of identification. The phones will be able to receive high-resolution movies and television programmes, thus becoming a link in a new infrastructure that combines broadcasting and communications, such as Personal Application Device (PDA) and laptop. The phones will be able to transmit data at a rate of more than 20Mbits/sec -- or 2,000 times faster than existing cellular phones and ten times the rates of 3G phones.

Girl 2 - Oh, my God! Is that like the new PDA version 111874 updated version, release
only in Sumatera Barat?

(the girls move over to the guy and start to swoon over him but the fashion victim just ignores the girls)

F.V. - (looks over to the audience)
Look what technology can do for you!

Culture and Language

Scene - 2 tourists from different countries bumped into each other. One from Saudi Arabia and the other from Japan. Since the two of them do not understand each other's language, they find it difficult to communicate. And so, they use a device that automatically translates any foreign language into a language that both of them will be able to understand.

Arab - (speaks in Arab)

Japan - (speaks in Japanese)

(the Arab and Japan tourist both stop talking and takes out a translation device from their pocket)

In the future, human are able to understand each other by only using an automatic translator. Such technology is made possible by the fact that we have found the way to decode the wavelength of our voice straight from our voice-box. Even today human are already able to understand a part of the highly intelligent mammals mode of communication such as the dolphins and the whales. So theories such as the automatic voice translator are not to be dismissed easily…

Arab - Ah, now we can finally understand each other.

Japan - Yeah, thank God for such technology.

(they continued talking)

Cyberlaw

A new technological model of consciousness is that of computer-generated virtual reality. By wearing goggles containing color TV sets and earphones, a computer can control a person's main sensory input, coordinating it with actual body movements tracked by sensors, giving the "traveler" a virtual body that can interact with virtual objects. More than one person can enter the same virtual reality and interact with other travelers there. It is not impossible that in the future given psychological identification, a virtual reality can quickly become an almost total reality.