F8 reaction

 Upon watching the F8 conference

Building technology such as the Facebook airplane, gear VR and augmented reality and artificial intelligence.

As a strong supporter of net neutrality, I like the idea of a marketplace of ideas that Facebook will become a platform that gives the people power to share anything they want to with anyone. However the issues of ethical standards and credibility rise up as one of my main concerns. We each have a voice that we can share, it's only when some voices become louder than others, "group think" may lead people astray.

With the hopes to HELP solve the world problems.  I don't think naive is the right term, I think these intentions are good, however reading between the lines what may seem good, and power is corruptible. I think that we as humans judge ourselves by good intentions however it is our actions that truly speak for us. There are many generalizations in the speech about helping the world that seems to be stretched out; there are many contradictions; reading between the lines I am very skeptical about it. 

I like to think I'm an optimist, however it takes more than good efforts, but I personally look to the leader of the pack to determine how I perceive the group's credibility. Zuckerburg describes his vision to "bring people together" and that we must connect to make progress. Messenger will now have ways to simply message business or news sources for information. It seems very biased to me since that allows an algorithm to figure out what kind of news is important to you and simply cater only to that.

Free services, well there is no such thing as free, in fact it seems all too good to be true, to have free education tools and free medical information. I think that this free information will have an underlying cost to the reader. Net neutrality is important however this free vs. non free services makes me think that only some things are free and not others, therefore Zuckerburg focuses mainly on the free services.

In the topic about Artificial intelligence, to claim that if a computer can detect whether or not a person's skin lesion will lead to skin cancer, and jump over to say it will help save lives. Yes, there is prevention due to early detection, however just as humans make mistakes, the machines we create will also make mistakes. He continued that AI will develop perception, which I think is important, but did not go into further detail to what extent that would be. Emotions? Feeling? Morals?

 On the topic of Virtual reality and augmented reality, when used in moderation it is not a bad idea. However, I find it extremely ironic how using these services will bring people together. When used to the extreme it can be toxic.

Overall I think the visions are with good intention however we need to think for ourselves and use digression, to read between the lines and contradictions. As well as acknowledge that there is a lack of checks and balances for executing these points.