As a class assignment, I had to read articles from Institute for the Future (IFTF), pick one and then select an excerpt that I liked or found interesting. I picked, "My BFF is a bot" and article that was placed in the future. It talks of the year 2020 (a year that has not even happened) as if it was the past. In the second slide you will find the excerpt that I found interesting but scary as it is a point technology can get to. Then I had to ask a question on Quora, explore some related questions as well and write the excerpts found. Click on the article and explore quora for these or other questions!

1. Raffaella Tonani Digital Design
Selected Social Media Post
Raffaella Tonani Fa102b Professor Klinkowstein
Research from the Web and Quora
Article title: My BFF is a bot
http://www.iftf.org/future-now/article-detail/my-bff-is-a-bot/

2. Raffaella Tonani Digital Design
Selected Social Media Post
Raffaella Tonani Fa102b Professor Klinkowstein
Research from the Web and Quora
Excerpt
“Since Hillary, she never needed to remember anything
anymore—it was her backup brain.”

3. Raffaella Tonani Digital Design
Selected Social Media Post
Raffaella Tonani Fa102b Professor Klinkowstein
Research from the Web and Quora
Question asked in Quora
‘‘Would you like bots to replace humans in stores? Bots that
can read your emotions,tone of voice,look into your social
media feed to see what you are interested in.”
Answer excerpt
‘‘No bot needed,just automated checkout.”

4. Raffaella Tonani Digital Design
Selected Social Media Post
Raffaella Tonani Fa102b Professor Klinkowstein
Research from the Web and Quora
Quora related question
‘‘Will privacy and anonymity become extinct in the future with the
rise of technology and peoples’growing reliance on it?”
Response
“You probably know that people are already giving away their
personal data freely on social media.Anything from where they live,
what their prized possessions are,what their values,preferences and
leanings are,their contact info,even their nudes.So I'm not sure if
privacy and anonymity is even a thing anymore.”

5. Raffaella Tonani Digital Design
Selected Social Media Post
Raffaella Tonani Fa102b Professor Klinkowstein
Research from the Web and Quora
Quora related question
‘‘Should artificial intelligence be regulated?”
Response
“Thinking through how these regulations should change in light of new AI
capabilities such as autonomous driving will help the whole industry…But
the regulation should be industry-specific,and based on a thoughtful
understanding of the use-cases and on the outcomes we do/don’t want to
see in specific sectors,rather than on the basic technology.The
government also has a big role to play to help with the coming job
displacements caused by AI,for example to provide basic income and
retraining.

6. Raffaella Tonani Digital Design
Selected Social Media Post
Raffaella Tonani Fa102b Professor Klinkowstein
Draft Product or Service Description
An app that before coming to stores asks the customer if
he/she/them would or would not like to be assisted by a bot