Heating up the potential capabilities of Osmosis

     In episode six, Esther is confronted about secretly hacking the implants of the beta testers to cure Louise. This is not good in some eyes and there are concerns of others finding out. If others find out, Osmosis will reach its demise. On the flip side, it worked! Louise is now awake however, she's completely dependent and permanently connected to Martin, the personal assistant as mentioned in Blog four. With Louise being dependent on Martin, she's not fully cured but without Esther hacking into the implants of the beta testers, Louise had a zero percent chance of waking up. Little back story, Louise fell into a coma that should have been permanent. Although Osmosis was made to match soulmates, Esther has discovered that Osmosis could in fact be a medical technology as well. Paul Vanhove, the leader of Osmosis, completely disagrees and wants absolutely no part in expanding the capabilities of Osmosis. This scenarios brings about external constraints. In a way, Paul is sabotaging the good that Osmosis could bring to the greater good regardless of the profits that could be made from an expansion. For the individuals that are leading the process of Osmosis, a local search bias is presented here in that they firmly believe that they know Osmosis is capable of being a benefit to the neurological medical field in order to solve a new problem, outside of soulmate matching. Esther and Gabriel want to rely on Osmosis to come into play medically however, Paul does not. This scenario also has the possibility of creating a GAN, General Adversarial Network. Gabriel is acting as the generator while Paul is acting as the discriminator. Gabriel is trying to create a representation that will be accepted by Paul. Paul, again the discriminator, rejects the idea of Osmosis merging into the medical field with the development of new applications. Paul rejects this because it is not a part of the main intentions of Osmosis. Gabriel continues to push Paul with caution towards agreeing to at least consider looking into the medical capabilities. Paul does not budge. Again, the reason this has the possibility of becoming a GAN situation is because Paul may end up reconsidering and eventually taking the reasonings of Gabriel, the generator, as authentic. We will find out as we move along into this series!

Osmosis, The Height of Excellence

     Throughout the show Osmosis, there are many advanced forms of technology that are far more progressive than the technology of today's society. I want to talk a little bit about Martin, the artificially intelligent decoder that provides Esther with all of the information she needs in regards to just about anything she'd like to know. Martin is basically Esther's personal assistant. In the relationship between Esther and Martin, Esther would be the encoder. Martin is not a person, Martin acts very similarly to that of "Alexa" in today's world. Martin however, is far more advanced. Martin also has the ability to anthropomorphize and demonstrates human behaviors. Martin demonstrates the ability to anthropomorphize by having also having the ability to communicate.

    I now want to talk a bit about human computation. Numerous people carry out the small task of distributing the pill in order to begin Osmosis. A computer cannot do that and since more and more people are participating in Osmosis, human computation is the way to carry out that part of the process. Throughout the first few episodes, it is apparent that there is cultural anxiety when it came to first testing out Osmosis. The characters were hesitant when initially taking the pill because they were the first up to bat for testing Osmosis. The test dummies had no idea what was really going to happen to them but believed that the pill was going to do what they were told it was going to do. That slight fear came from the unfamiliarity of the and lack of knowledge with the new technology.

Osmosis, Lightyears Ahead of Today's Technology

    In terms of technology today and the state of technology in which the world is currently in, Osmosis definitely takes the cake with its capabilities. Osmosis is lightyears beyond current technology. In fact, I'm not convinced in the slightest that future realistic technologies will be able to mimic or even come close to what Osmosis has to offer, but, you neve know! Technology before my time had a goal of helping the society with obstacles such as turning a candle into a lightbulb. Today's technology has cleared a path for devices that have many functions like that of a smartwatch or smartphone. You've noticed that computers are reaching faster speeds and are becoming more high powered than ever. The digital systems and applications including computers, ipad's, smartphones, laptops, match.com, twitter, you name it, have certainly evolved over a long period of time. For instance, typewrites were reintegrated by digital systems like computers and Microsoft Word, software like that. Even telephones have evolved and shaped into many different versions that are now portable. It wasn't until the 2010's that technology that we use every day started evolving. Things like social media, cloud computing and artificial intelligence drastically changed our daily lives. Artificial intelligence is used on a wide scale to help us with recommendations such as things we may be interested in based on searches we've conducted or even purchases we've made online. Artificial intelligence has benefited commerce in ways like inventory planning and logistics. Artificial intelligence has made its way into reality for various companies and organizations across many different industries. AI has stepped up to the plate with successful results with being able to improve efficiency as well as cutting down on human error and labor. We also have technology like social media for interacting and connect with people, along with online gaming which also aids in similar connections. I think that in today's world, we're simply having fun with what is offered and are soaking it up until we're ready for something new. For many, if not all of us, the growing pace of technology has made our lives better, easier and simply, more fun.

Osmosis on the other hand is on an entire different level. I would absolutely LOVE the ability to walk past an individual and see a digital reading over their head on how compatible they would be with me! Especially being the age that I am now with no wife or children, I fear being alone but because of that, I've naturally adapted to being independent. I have grown to envy the capabilities of Osmosis. I think there would be a ton of legalities if technology in today's world could mimic what Osmosis can. I would also say that if that were to ever happen, this crazy world would jump all over it. I would not say that the intelligence of Osmosis is out of the realistic picture, I just don't see those capabilities happening in my lifetime. On the flipside, maybe there is technology and intelligence capabilities out there that could do what Osmosis does. This would revolves around money so maybe they're just waiting to wear us down with these miniscule social technologies before they unleash the beast. Phone companies probably work in that sense. I feel they just make small adjustments to their phones each year, adjustments that they know years in advance but release only a few of them each year. I don't know for certain but I think that's how companies like Apple make a killing!