How do you imagine social interaction within 10 years, taking into consideration the impact of technology on human relations?

By Maya Mounayar

In ten years, will technology enrich social interactions or dehumanize them?

Will technologyenrich human interactions? Or will it dehumanize them?

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Technology will foster richer human relationships through...

1 Breaking barriers

• Geographically: enabling sensory interactions to bridge geographical gaps

• Chronologically: allowing contact with people between different chronological times

2Maximizing

socialization time

• Increasing efficiency in daily tasks to free up time for socializing and entertainment

• Optimizing assets' utilization rates while benefiting from new encounters

3Increasing

selectivity in relationships

• Ratings and reviews will serve as a metric to select potential "partners" in many fields such as choosing a nanny or a plumber

• Selecting potential partners based on relevant genetic information in order to avoid high risk of bearing children with hereditary diseases

Technology will foster richer human relationships through breaking barriers

1 Breaking barriers

• Geographically: enabling sensory interactions to bridge geographical gaps

• Chronologically: allowing contact with people between different chronological times

Haptic: "HapToClone" technology integrated into skype calls in order

to make calls sensory

Hologram concerts performed deceased singers such as Michael

Jackson

2Maximizing

socialization time

• Increasing efficiency in daily tasks to free up time for socializing and entertainment

• Optimizing assets' utilization rates while benefiting from new encounters

Technology will foster richer human relationships through maximizing socialization time

Robotic technology used for household chores

Sharing economy platforms such as blabla car and airbnb

3Increasing

selectivity in relationships

• Ratings and reviews will serve as a metric to select potential "partners" in many fields such as choosing a nanny or a plumber

• Selecting potential partners based on relevant genetic information in order to avoid high risk of bearing children with hereditary diseases

Technology will foster richer human relationships through increasing selectivity

Ratings and use of artificial intelligence will enable selection of

the most relevant offerings

Enhanced genetic sequence analysis through high performance

computing

Technology could help reach the deterioration of social interactions through...

2Decreasing

dependence on human relations

• Robots becoming more emotional and progressively replacing the need for human interactions

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Correlation of psychological disorders with social media

• Social media usually displays only positive aspects of a person's life which leads to social comparisons, linked to anxiety and depression1

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Increasing blurriness of limit between human and

machine

• Robots' increased similarity to humans could devalue the "humanity" of people and eventually cause confusion and heated debates

1. Source: USA today – study conducted by Intel Labs in 2013 based on 12 000 adults

Technology could help reach the deterioration of social interactions through correlation of psychological orders with social media

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Correlation of psychological disorders with social media

• Social media usually displays only positive aspects of a person's life which leads to social comparisons, linked to anxiety and depression1

1. Source: USA today – study conducted by Intel Labs in 2013 based on 12 000 adults

Enhanced genetic sequence analysis through high performance computing

Technology could help reach the deterioration of social interactions through decreasing dependence on human relations

2Decreasing

dependence on human relations

• Robots becoming more emotional and progressively replacing the need for human interactions

Pepper, an emotional robot made in Japan, interacts with family members, proposes games to play, and takes pictures of your kids in your absence

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Increasing blurriness of limit between human and

machine

• Robots' increased similarity to humans could devalue the "humanity" of people and eventually cause confusion and heated debates

Technology could help reach the deterioration of social interactions through increasing blurriness of limit between human and machine

Potential human-robot romantic relationships

Technology will considerably impact social interactions but it's not or , it's up to us to shape its effects

• New technology will undoubtedly have an impact on social interactions in 10 years

• This impact could be positive or negative

• The importance is in being critical of the new technology in question before adopting it or abandoning it

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In conclusion, we should shape the way we use technology and not let technology shape us as human beings