When an SUV outmatches a Ferrari in a drag racing

The era of electric vehicles has clearly arrived with the high anticipation of Tesla Mode 3.

When EV become more and more obviously superior to gasoline vehicles in terms of sustainability, safety, speed, drive experience, auto intelligence etc. most of gasoline cars will be replaced by electric cars in the future without doubt.

But what about luxury brands, sport cars? There are a lot of people love hearing the sound of engine, love driving themselves instead of letting a computer taking control of the car. Brands like Ferrari probably will refuse to change, instead, they will stand last to defend the pride and glories of gasoline cars, like horses of today, no more in use for daily transportation, but become more of a symbol of status, class, history, tradition. So will be Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche… if they refuse to change.

Make a change in the way I produce an article

So I learnt that it's not enough to just write whenever I feel like to. Most of the time I just felt the urge to sit in front of my tablet and write something, but once I really sit down and put my hands over keyboard, I froze. There's nothing to say, nothing to tell. Even when I had good ideas, there were just too little material to compose a complete article.

So I sit down and give up, and come back sit down again, and give up again, maybe 1 out of 3 or 4 times I didn't give up, that's how this blog came to existence. It's a struggle to write.

Recently I just read a post titled "Think your content should be getting more love? Give these 4 tactics a try..."(https://medium.com/life-learning/think-your-content-should-be-getting-more-love-give-these-4-tactics-a-try-ee154a8f9a10#.ibktug89j) on Medium, and this one particular sentence stroke me "Too many people are entitled and think their work deserves more love when they’ve only spent 45 minutes working on the damn thing." This is just so damn right, I am exactly one of those people who only give a little input but expect big return.

It made me think of my group work at university, we had the topic "child labor" to write a short paper and prepare a presentation for class, me and two other classmates would first off collect a lot of data and documents to quote, write an outline for the paper and then each of us takes care of one part of the paper, in the end we make the PowerPoint together, the whole process took us about 3-4 weeks, and that's how things should be done, there must be thorough study and consideration(we chose the topic on our own) before a good article comes to birth. Not saying that what we wrote was in any way brilliant, it was just for class and wasn't much of original work, just putting together all the things that's relevant, connecting the dots. Nevertheless it was a much better work than any of my posts here because of the effort and time we put into it.

Next time when I write something, I would actively search for a good topic that interests me, and dig deeper into the story, collect more information, make an outline, build a structure, and then I write it.

Mediocrity, The Forgotten Part of The World

Mediocrity, The Forgotten Part of The World

I love hanging out on internet, I enjoy reading blogs, news, random articles about everything.

But nothing I read about seems really close to my life, what I witness, what I live.

If you read news, for example, economic news, you won’t be reading what this worker’s recent life has been or that job seeker’s feelings and thoughts on labor market, what you read about is the GDP, the Fed, interest rates, retirement, wall street, big banks, big corporations, top economists… When you see articles talking about career, talking about work, they don’t talk much about lower incomer, there are many pieces on which job yields the highest pay, which university alumnus get paid better than the rest, what they don’t mention is those people who are making ranging from merely enough to survive to 15 thousand a year.

Why do I learn coding?

I had the opportunity to get my hands on computers when I was very little kid, but I went a completely different path compare to all the IT entrepreneurs that I admire so much today have gone through: instead of exploring the practically unlimited possibilities in computer programming I spent hours and hours in gaming even before my tongue was fully ready to speak Chinese. 

I spent a lot of time playing games on consoles with my uncle, but someday he suddenly dropped the game and started typing on the keyboard, for an entire day, he was just typing on the keyboard, that annoyed me because I didn't understand what he was doing, also because I couldn't play while he's doing his stuff. After a whole day, finally he called me over in front of the screen, there's a little figure on the screen, he handed me the controller told me to try it out, surprisingly I could control the little figure with the controller, it wasn't from any game, it was just plain black background with a little figure, but it was coded by my uncle, how did he do it? 

I wasn't very impressed although, and my uncle never went down that road to study more about coding, soon we just came back to fight shoulder to shoulder in virtual battle field.

When I got a littler older, I was very into computer magazines, but I was only interested in the gaming section, I read all the articles about games over and over, remember once there was a long article teaching people how to code a simple shooting game(that you can't even move, just shoot the approaching enemies), it was like 3 or 4 pages, it was like "dang it, this month's magazine's ruined, I was expecting some gaming content, now it's just boring code crawling on pages".

So despite my early familiarity with computers it never came to my mind to learn to code. 

Until last year I worked at a hotel and for some reason I built a website for the company with an online website building platform, it was easy and intuitive, anybody can build a good looking website within a few minutes, but this time it got me, I figured, if I could code I could make a lot of adjustments that the platform won't allow me to. When you are choosing template it's frustrating that you can never find just exactly what you want, and even if you find one, there are just so many details you want to work on but the template won't allow you. So finally, after 20 years I wanted to learn coding. 

Coding will open a whole new world for anyone wants to create new things, websites, programs, apps anything. I believe coding studying will become as significant as a foreign language learning across the globe. 

Time Travel Is Possible, Not For Us, But For Robots

Micro scale time travel will become possible, when Moore's law eventually failed because computer's improvement will sooner or later hit a physical limitation, there's another dimension we can exploit, which is time dimension. Super computer can operate across time, when we sit here for a second, the computer has been running for 100 years, thus bypass the spacial limitation.

Robots, computers can also travel backward in time to recover lost files or investigate and study the things we cannot directly observe anymore.

Human organs can be "sent" back in time and fix itself on an atomic level, immortality will be realized this way.

Future City and Population

There will be cities floating in the middle of air using anti-gravity technology. 

The city is a giant platform powered by giant movable solar panel that tracks the direction of sunlight, also wind power was fully harnessed. 

Most cities float around the globe as they will, some float on the ocean.

Some cities float above desert to obtain better sunlight, and it creates a more habitable climate for the area below the platform, desert can be fully inhabited, giving more living space for human. However the population didn't grow exponentially, rather it was well controlled. Instead the population of robots grew ever faster and became an equal specie as human, they gained equal rights, respect and social statues over many years conflict and debate, but it was an inevitable trend, since human pursued to create beings that intellectually equal to human themselves, they must also acknowledge these creatures shall enjoy equal rights as human themselves(as Children are given birth by parents but that doesn't make children a inferior generation than their parents).

Robotman log

Today is blue. Everything is light blue, the sky, the cloud, the window, the table, the sheet on my bed, even the sunlight is blueish. It's weird feeling, but it's feeling, it's sensation, it's something connected to my soul and I can touch it.

I had this surgery to replace my body with a robotic body. Or in another word, to transplant my head on a machine being, yeah, it's the same. I can recall some of the memory in detail but others are just blurry. 

I was placed comfortably in a bed in the operation room, ready for surgery, I remember I was staring at the machine body standing next to me, the body that is going to host me, to become me. I remember I asked my doctobot Kevin, what happens to my old body? Kevin said, we'll take care of it, unless you really want to keep it yourself, we can deliver it to your address. I said, no thanks, I'd rather not have it. Then I raised my hand and just gazed at it, I turn my palm back and forth, round and round, the more I looked at it, the more I understand that it's just some machine made by mother nature, essentially there's no difference from artificial body, I mean, my ability on hands is limited by the shape, muscle and component of my flesh hand, it is so and I had to accept how it is, there's no imagination, no extension, nothing else other than... a hand, just so, but with artificial hand I could do so much more, I could feel so much more... 

Then I woke up, trying to open my eyes for a bit, Kevin was there, smiling at me, he has a better smile than I do, and I am a real human, my mouth is small and when I smile it just doesn't look like smile, it looks rather like exposing my teeth and crying, that's why I never smile much, I'm overly self-conscious about my face. Ugh, wish someday I could change my face as well, but that would be too much, I don't want to risk losing my own identity, the way I look for so many years.
After a few seconds I could fully open my eyes, and everything was yellow, why is everything yellow? Once when I was a kid I woke up in an early morning and found everything was pink, I was scared that something went wrong with my eyes, until a few minutes later the pink disappear I realized that it was just the dawn light, so soft and contentious that made the entire room, sky and everything pinkish. But this time it was my eyes. I started to see things as if through some colorful filters, it switches all the time depends on the occasion and mood, but I haven't figured out just exactly which one is for which situation yet. Okay, it's perfectly normal, everything's yellow, I raised my hand again, staring at it, moved it around a little bit, it's wonderful! I can feel it just at the place where I used to feel my flesh hand. I can also feel my joint's motion, I can also feel ... a lot, I can tell the temperature, material, age of anything just by touching it, more than that, there are a lot of information I simply can't understand, those are beyond my knowledge and probably not very much useful to me as well, so I can just ignore them. It's interesting, I just stare at my hand, when you were flesh and blood, I could feel pressure and other physical sensations, now it's so much more yet it comes so naturally, not overwhelming at all, the information just flow into my head, I don't know, I just, I can just tell what temperature it is, I didn't even have to think, just ... felt it.

If the body is anywhere damaged or hurt you'll feel a warning signal, it's not painful, but it's a signal you won't miss. Kevin so explained to me, and then he took a kit box, opened it, took knife, needle and lighter out and tested them on my right arm: he cut the knife into my arm a little bit, my arm is very flexible and tough, the laser edge barely cut through it after a while. Now this is cut warning, remember it, he said while doing it. While the edge bit into my arm I did feel ... not pain, but it wasn't pleasant, considering the feeling of having something sharp getting into your skin has being naturally what we always feared, I felt very uncomfortable, my brain spontaneously tried to search for the pain but it wasn't there, I just felt the urge to escape the cutting but I held it down, and along with that also came the information of the knife of course, made in NetX 702 in year 2108. Don't worry, after the test we'll change this part of skin on your arm, Kevin assured me that while proceeding to the next test. 

After that there were a series of other tests including walking, running, jumping, everything, everything felt fantastic, I felt stronger and faster, and it really felt good to feel the joint moving, I like it, I enjoy every movement I make, it's like riding a bicycle and the sound and feeling of the chain running smoothly, extremely satisfying. Later I was put in sleep and Kevin made some adjustments based on my tests. Then I was good to go. 

Wait, I don't remember the part after the test... what did I do yesterday? Was it yesterday? I really don't remember, it only makes sense if it was yesterday I guess, otherwise I would know what I did yesterday.

Today I woke up to everything is blue, light blue, very light and soft, makes every building glowing from the edges.

Human Jobs Replaced By Robot - Good or Bad? -The horse analogy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
This video from CGP Grey discussed the scenario where our jobs are gradually replaced by robotic/AI workforce, the author argues that our jobs, not only the ones require lower skill, but also white collar jobs will be soon replaced by robots, which in his opinion is a disaster to human being, because most population on earth are working relatively simple tasks that can be replaced by robots, and this would lead to human's losing jobs and social status.
The author made an interesting analogy to support his argument: back when we haven't had steam engine, horses were the primary transportation tools, ever since industrial revolution, horses become rarely needed in our society, they are replaced by machines. Therefore, he said, human will face the same destiny as the horses did, becoming "useless", population sharply plunge.
Wait a minute here, why is being replaced even bad for horses? Now horses don't have to do the heavy lifting, they don't risk their lives on battlefield, they don't have to run day and night to deliver goods or transport people, they are enjoying a generally higher social status as luxury commodities and "athletes", if I were a horse I'd be happy to see this happening, I couldn't wait for that day to come! By arguing the situation of job losing for horse the author ignored (whether or not purposely) the fact that employment rate alone can't always be a yardstick to measure happiness. By saying that horse population sharply declined the author is, one, misleading us to think that the larger population a race has, the better off; two, making it as if the horses somehow "disappeared" from the surface of earth, obviously implying that the horses suffer horrible fate in competing with machines. But wrong, first of all let's not simply follow the author's lead and take for granted that more population means better social status and less population means less prosperity, it's simply not. Second, it's not like the horses were concentrated together and massacred or something, they gradually faded out, that's it, nicely and peacefully, cars came into people's life, nor was it like suddenly everybody bought a car in one day and collectively abandoned horses. The author was obviously misleading us to think it over simply. People knew that cars are better than horses so they stop buying and breeding more horses, the strong and athletic horses were chosen to remain active in "better jobs". So is the fate of human, we are not going to be suddenly replaced by mechanical minds, yes we are being replaced but not suddenly, but gradually, technology and production capability won't allow us to employ one robot per job yet, just like people couldn't buy a car immediately after cars emerge on market. Robots will replace us in the worst, most dangerous, most unwanted, riskiest jobs first, then slowly moving upwards to higher level, more skilled jobs. In the meantime it is also a transition of human being, once robots are taking jobs and making life easier in developing countries, people don't have to have so many children anymore, birth rate slows down, in developed countries people's hands will be freed and invest more energy and time into high intelligent, high skill fields. In the end the result will be just like horses today, not a bad ending, but exactly the opposite, a much better place for us to live, much easier lives, higher social status and pursuit, lower population(which is also a key to battle poverty) and more wealth.
Seriously the author of the video, do you want us to keep birth rate high and overpopulate the earth so that you can claim the victory over machinery? Or do you want human being to have a reasonable sized population all living in wealth and ease?

Brain-Computer Integration Results Two Co-Existing World

Brain-computer cooperate to manipulate real world
Future computer will be fully integrated with human's brain as well as billions of daily objects such as simple as cups, table, window, paper etc. So when we intend to do something we just "do" it in our mind and certain objects will follow the command to complete whatever we pictured in head. Computer and cloud technology is so advanced that the execution ability of computer is way better than human's own hands, therefore you don't have to be a real painter to make a "masterpiece", all you need is bold imagination, the rest, leave it to computer. 
Controversy: if all the work, art, craft were made by computer(thus every detail is optimized in the very standard and sophisticated way), could they still be called our own intellectual result? Are we giving away one of a few things that we human are so very proud of? 
Actually it wouldn't be a problem at all. Despite the utilizing of computer, every creation is still based on our pure idea and imagination, our desire and need, you can't say that if we invented a better tool to write then what we write won't be count as original as before. Plus, as civilization reaching to a higher level it is inevitable that we will ditch some of the old methods and adopt new methods and thus achieve a newer competition on a higher level. When Da Vinci created Monna Lisa nobody was worried about the fate of caveman's drawing on stone walls. Same reason, it's not that we won't treasure all we treasure today, but new technology will open up a new horizon, new platform for us to practice our knowledge and wisdom. 

Computer-brain to manipulate virtual reality
While computer and brain fully integrated into a ceaseless unit, it opened up possibilities in two opposite directions, one is real world, another is virtual reality world. 
A gigantic, vivid, colorful virtual world or even multiple worlds will be designed and created for people to have virtual life in computer, this world can be private, can be shared, but in total the virtual world will for sure exceed the size and richness of our real world. By then a fantasy land, a heaven, even a hell can be existing. Criminals can be put in educational virtual reality world to train and clean their spirit, in extreme cases we could put the worst of worst people into a "virtual hell" to forever lock them away from the world.
All education can be done in virtual world, when you learn history, you can stand at the world war two battle field to witness historical events as if watching a movie(even participate in it in some degree to see what would outcome would be achieved if some certain factors were influenced in history).
Countless scenarios of how virtual reality can affect our life have already been anticipated and vividly illustrated in novels, movies, just think of Inception, Total Recall, Matrix, eXistenZ.... Indeed, you could live forever in VR world. Then there will be argument about how important these virtual reality lives really are, on moral, ethical and legal levels, they would be very challenging to our current society form. But the trend to a equal judgement will prevail, virtual world will gain a legitimate place in society, it will be morally and legally protected and respected, people can choose between these two kinds of life, or even live a double life. It's like we created an infinite parallel universe that we can visit anytime, there's always a portal right there, between two worlds, people choose left or right like choosing between two neighborhood, no need to argue which one is realer.