A Virtual Me

Technology has continued to advance day after day. Machine learning and artificial intelligence is making predictive life decisions and sending reminders email to help you complete tasks. So when does this evolve to the point where all of my decisions...my thoughts...my lessons learned become part of my work life? When will it just become a virtual me? 

I think it will happen a lot sooner than people think. With systems like Siri, Alexa, and Cortana following your personal and business life, the predictive analytics of it all will start pre-writing email responses, providing all necessary information for your decision and then recording how you made the decision, and even learning your habits and how you handle time.

Time... that is probably the one thing that predictive analytics will struggle with. In management, sometimes it is better to just give it time to answer back. Other people within the email may provide a response that you have not thought about previously. So even if a virtual me is created, will it understand the need for delayed responses? 

But what is more important...what will we do once a virtual me is created? Will I continue to expand on skills by learning new languages? Will I travel the world and learn about different cultures? Will I use other virtual me to solve other problems? How will I get paid for each of my virtual mes? If we have a virtual me for each of us, are we really the people being employed? Can your virtual me be stolen and used without your consent? What if virtual me commits a crime?

This brings me to my point, the governments around the world need to get ahead of all of this. There needs to be a digital ethics board to cover issues like these. It needs to address everything from limits of science and technology, to new laws regarding the what-if scenarios. If we don't have a regulated digital body soon, it will be too late very soon. Because all of the thoughts and ideas associated to this post, if constructed correctly are possible now. Not in the future...now.

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