Welcome to the future • The Nation

David A. Rosenthal

Mark Zuckerberg never stops being the focus of science, technology and innovation news. And it is that the digital transformation does not stop and day after day technology brings us closer to the future. Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to be the protagonist of the change of "chip" that will take humanity into the future, between ineffable and inexorable.

Meta, the name of the renewed emporium of technology, communication and information, made up of Zuckerberg's companies, initially Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, leads the change. The metaverse, within cyberspace, configures the new social and economic reality in principle where human beings through avatars become pixels and begin to compete or subsist virtually with their homogeneous participants.

Well, Meta recently presented the Research SuperCluster (RSC), the supercomputer developed by Pure Storage, Nvidia, among other companies, which would be capable of giving life to the metaverse proposed by the creator of Facebook. With a storage capacity never seen before and with the highest and most sophisticated computer technology, this technological crusade is destined to turn humanity into a new one. More than a generational change, social change or transformation of the economic system, it will be the future, our future.

Welcome to the future • The Nation

After the pandemic will come the new universe, the meta-universe. AI is no longer a science fiction idea, neither is cyberspace, the metaverse and other buzzwords. Augmented reality will allow men of flesh and blood to travel through cybernetic terrain, even through the most untamed and unexplored that may be there.

Augmented reality that will serve to carry out different areas, from games that will make participants feel a new reality in all its sense, to new forms of shopping, education, personal growth and development, and even relationships personal and affective

The next era of the internet will be this. AI has the power to decipher almost any information, including the various languages ​​or languages ​​that exist in the "real" world. Supercomputers like RSC will have the capacity to decode texts, images, videos, etc., in a matter of moments. On the other hand, everything will be more monitored and controlled, starting with the users.

It seems that all the information of the universe that we know is reduced to this virtual universe. In fact, new concepts are beginning to be revealed that will end up becoming virtual commonplaces such as the omniverse, that is, the metaverse of experts that could even digitally replicate entire cities, countries, and even the world we understand, according to the company Nvidia. .

In addition, there are a significant number of companies that are beginning to join these projects and that will surely have a place in the new virtual and cybernetic universe. According to this, the simulation universe would be the next step for these companies and the men behind them who are developing new ideas almost at the speed of light. Welcome to the future.