Apple co-founder and acquaintance of the late Steve Jobs، Steve Wozniak doubts about the outrageously expensive Apple smartwatches، says cars more fitting for Apple future and humanity maybe at a colossal threat of being run over by super computers in a possible dystopian future.
Wozniak statement on Apple Watch
According to co-founder of Apple، although he likes the idea of a smartwatch that is able to give you fitness tracker updates، reminders and notifications، he is not so appeased with ridiculous price-tag on it، as he disses a 17K price on a watch when the same price can get you a Macbook pro along with your choice of iPhone and accessories.
He doubts if the most expensive versions of the gadget will be welcomed by large number of consumers or not.
“If you buy the really high-priced ones، the jewelry ones، then you’re not buying a smartwatch that has a bunch of app،” according to Review، quoting Wozniak.
“Like a Rolex watch، you’re buying if for prestige and a label and a symbol of who you are. The fact is the difference between a $10،000 watch and a $17،000 watch is only the brand، and for an engineer like me I don’t live in that world، that’s not my world.”
This news from an experienced and veteran engineer، more importantly co-founder of Apple would be heeded by consumers of the product.
“I’m just not going to buy it for jewelry’s sake until I know it’s something I’m going to want around me and on me and use every single day continually as a permanent part of my life” adding، “Then maybe I’d consider looking into getting the nicer jewelry version.”
Co-founder’s word on Apple’s iCar or the apparent self-driving electric car
Woz showed his excitement and was appealed by the concept and idea of the Cupertino company’s jump into automotive arena.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
According to him، the company needs to seek new and large markets to expand and stay afloat without hassle، and states automobiles could just be Apple’s “Next Big Thing”.
“I don’t know if Apple’s doing that، or if they’re just working on their CarPlay apps for the dashboard of your car، but it seems like they might be hiring a lot of people who could really build a vehicle”، Woz said.
His opinion on the “Computer will overrun mankind” theory
Woz is somewhat certain that with the given pace at which computers and electronics are replacing humans at various levels، be it labor or productivity، humans will be run down by super computers conceived by us.
“Computers are going to take over from humans، no question” certainty-filled Wozniak speaks about the most adverse effect technology can impose on mankind.
Though he had first not been amused or had given consideration to the Kurzweillian idea of machines reaching “singularity”، a point from where they starts to self-think and produce better، faster and more powerful computer breed to replace men from labor and other tasks where work efficiency lacking due to humans may be boosted by computers.
“Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted، I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us، eventually they’ll think faster than us and they’ll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently”
This idea or concept had been discussed widely in pop-culture، with a lot of sci-fi movies tackling with the subject of super computers، robotics or machinery replacing mankind، sometimes with dire consequences and sometimes with a lot more for humans to lose other than their jobs and profession.
Some of the famous movies depict how men are made slaves or worse، killed or exterminated to create a more powerful and superior race on Earth. Movies like The Matrix: trilogy، I Robot and Terminator franchise discusses these ideas.
Though the outcome in the real world may not be as dreadful and gruesome as depicted in some these movies، it is more anticipated or rooted for idea that mankind would become inferior to machines، on the very long run.
Hollywood movies have often tried to depict dystopian futures where mankind are near extinction by the hands of machines. Movie Still from Terminator Salvation
