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Intel conducted a survey of 1,000 consumers and 102 "tech elites"* to celebrate the 50th year of the company's existence:
Americans are excited about the future potential of technology, but 40 percent believe emerging technologies will introduce as many new problems as solutions in the next 50 years. This finding comes from Intel's "Next 50" Study of 1,000 consumers, conducted with research firm PSB, to determine prevailing perceptions about the future of technology.
"Emerging technologies have the potential to transform many aspects of our everyday life," said Genevieve Bell, director of the 3A Institute, Florence Violet McKenzie Chair and distinguished professor at the Australian National University, and a vice president and senior fellow at Intel. "Studies like this remind us about the diversity of human experience. When we talk about the future of innovation, we're talking about a range of ideas, technologies and attitudes that will impact our lives in important ways."
Even as consumers anticipate new technologies, they remain most excited about those that are most familiar. The survey revealed that consumers expect to rely most on smartphones (87 percent) in the future. Consumers also ranked PCs (84 percent) and smart home technology (84 percent) among the most important technologies in the next 50 years.
I thought the PC was dying.
Some highlights from the PDF include: much more excitement (56-71%) about "smart home technology" than gene therapy (43-55%) (page 10), little excitement (10-14%) over full automation of jobs forcing governments to issue a universal basic income (page 13), fathers being much more excited about "AI" than mothers (page 14), and Intel highlighting the worry of social isolation caused by technology when the top concern was robots and AI destroying jobs (page 24).
*All technology elites are aged 25 years or older with at least a college education, have a household income of at least $100,000 and follow news about technology closely.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @11:46AM (1 child)
Well, we sure are enabling them by the kind of technologies we embrace! The kind of stuff we make today is defective before it even leaves the design lab... Why in all blue blazes are we shipping stuff with built-in remote access? We aren't just asking for problems, we are downright begging for them!
What would happen if Microsoft, and now Intel, now that Linux is now the work-around, started making women's blouses? If you know which little thread hanging out, and pull it, the blouse comes apart! Now, tell me which red-blooded American male could resist such a thing?
But its terribly hard to sell the concept of trustworthy systems to people who *want* to have access into other people's private things. For them, INTEL, with their own backdoor, is just a paid scapegoat to give them plausible deniability for lack of due diligence. Anyone knowing the "Open Sesame" gets in.
We place so much effort into "Security Clearance", then have anything like this handling classified info? Hello, Keystone Kops!
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday August 24 2018, @08:34PM
So many problems with the intel cyber. Which, I assume, they're working very hard to fix. To make it PERFECTO. And maybe that's how they got hacked. I don't know. But it says, not found. It says page not found. Where there was supposed to be an article. Or a Press Release. And possibly, nobody cares.