If we imagine our future life based on Professor Conti’s ideas, human being probably will start freeing our hands and passing the repeatable job to the robots we designed. We probably will witness this significant improvement and become the first generation of Augmented Age.
Professor Conti mentioned that we are at the dawn of a new age in human history. Indeed, within 10 to 20 years, our life and our dream will keep growing as a even faster speed with tons of creativity and imagination. As a visual artist, I probably will notice changing from my daily drawing tool. I can talk to computer to explain my design ideas and the computer will make a critic of my thought based on its research. Then we start designing together. I do the mind part, he or she (computer) does the detail drawing part. We will be a perfect team. After all the steps, I can just tell he or she, “Great! We made it! Let’s print it out.”  Then the work is printed out automatically. And don’t forget to touch your computer or high-five with him or her, because of their huge help. So, as you see, computational system and robots will really become a partner in the future instead of being just a tool. In design world or even in other industries, partnership between human, computational system and nature will be the main pattern. And most importantly, I am sure that us, as human being will enjoy that moment very much, as long as keeping a stable and well-designed rule between our relationship with robots. Besides, Augmented Age will also influence medical industry, manufacture and high-tech space text and etc. We will start the process of resting our hands and flying our mind as far as possible with the help of computational system. More disabled people will be excited because with the help of Augmented Age they finally can do as much things as possible living like a normal person.
As a human being who is connected to technology, nature and human, I will feel different but with a lucky difference. In the past 2000 years, no human being was as lucky as us can witness the arrival of Augmented Age. We are sitting in the front seats of the human history movie theatre. How wonderful that is! I will feel much closer to the nature too. Because Augmented Age is more like a mind set, a new methodology that bond us together. More technology improvement doesn’t mean abandoning the nature, instead, we are even closer because we are a team. A team can’t live without any of the members. Therefore, in my opinion, I believe that Augmented Age is actually an age of respecting and loving.
