In Twenty, Fifty Years, 'We May Be Entertaining AI', Says Netflix CEO (barrons.com)

"If you are starting to look ahead what do you see?" a journalist asked Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at the Mobile World Congress. An anonymous reader shares a report: Hastings cited the work of Charlie Booker on "Black Mirror," saying "He tells many strange and wonderful stories on tech," and that "what's amazing about tech is, it's very hard to predict." "What we do is try to learn and adapt," said Hastings. "Rather than commit to one particular point of view, we will adapt to that." "If it's contact lenses with amazing capabilities, at some point, we will adapt to that." Hastings said the Internet's importance in one sense is that watching things on streaming is "so easy and convenient," with the result that "a show like The Crown, which would have been a niche before, is spreading around the world." "I just can't emphasize enough how much it's just beginning," he repeated. But, pressed stock, what about ten years out or twenty years out? Hastings said at that point there will be "some serious virtual reality" to contend with. And past twenty years? "Over twenty to fifty years, you get into some serious debate over humans," mused Hastings. "I don't know if you can really talk about entertaining at that point. I'm not sure if in twenty to fifty years we are going to be entertaining you, or entertaining AIs."

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[magarity]

Except it isn't.
Click on the items in the long list of old newspaper articles in the references section: http://www.populartechnology.n...
The ministry of truth did not alter and back-date all those old articles.

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[the_Bionic_lemming]

No, I remember the news story that was on TV telling me about the advancing Glaciers and measuring them, in addition to the annual pictures played as proof of the advancing glaciew. In the 70's they indeed thought we were headed into an ice age, and in fact there were quite a few novels written at the time about just such a thing in order to capitalize on that. I am a time traveler who was there back at that time, and took the slow way of getting here to post about it.