how can human-machine interactions be thought about differently?what is the role of language/data/bots in facilitating or disrupting such interactions?how differently would you imagine things to be in 25 years? 50 years? And 100 years?
In the media human and machine interaction can be described as one being inferior and one being superior. Either machine being superior and human being inferior or vice versa. And that with machine being thought of being superior people fear a machine takeover. However like all things machines are not capable of everything and can make certain tasks less efficient. For example in today’s seminar the projector screen wouldn’t come down because there was an unknown problem. If the screen was mounted on a wall and didn’t have to roll down we wouldn’t have had this issue. But the projector screen is still useful to display videos, powerpoints etc. features projectors(machine) have over blackboards/whiteboards(human) So if the human machine interaction was viewed as machines can enhance human tasks innovations can be created without fear of a machine takeover.
Imagining what the future will look like depends on which routes humans will take. If we will continue to make our lives easier by enhancing all aspects of our lives to do as little work as possible or if we will try to use machines to solve important problems like poverty, lack of housing, etc.