Pitch
The Law of Accelerating Technological Convergence will create an android capable of replicating actions of its human primary.
Description
Make life easier/more difficult for Singapore?
Easier
Describe the change
As technology continues to exponentially accelerate, the interactions between various subsets of exponential technology will create opportunities to slingshot past the already breakneck speed of accelerating change in ways that are even stranger and more difficult to predict than the path of any individual exponential technology.
Deep Learning-enabled AI, Gene editing, 3D printing, quantum computing, robotics. All these technologies already hold great promise on their own today. Now imagine if these technologies were allowed to inter-connect and combine with one another - this interaction of technology would result in the creation of a semi-sentient android, which would be able to interact with and replicate the tasks of its human primary.
Recall how you sometimes wished during those busy taxing periods that there was two of you around - well, in this future, there will be. The android will be genetically programmed to be like you, but not transcend your current abilities.
How will this change impact Smart Nation Singapore in 2030?
People will read this and say, there is no way technology could have advanced this much by 2030. But think about it, 14 years ago, if someone had told you that your phone would be able to stream videos, do internet calls, and host games and social media platforms, you would nod your head and go - social who?
Therein lies the beauty, and also the risk, of technological convergence. Singapore would especially benefit from such a convergence, especially with our population demographics and productivity issues.
The android (guess who is going to come with the prototype in the future) will be the replication of who you are - it might not look like you by 2030, but it will work like you. The better you try to be, the better it will be. The production safeguards will ensure that its capabilities do not exceed yours. In (almost) all activities, it will aide you, not substitute you.
This technology marvel will help you do the things you need to do, so you can go do the things you want to do.
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