I think, roughly, having good access to information is a super power (good being a mix of mostly: quick, simple, easy, accurate, free). My personal information is most valuable to me, so having access to that is specially powerful.
The only way to make that happen is to store that information somewhere. The best way to do anything, that I just want the benefits of, is automatically.
And now we are here. It feels monstrous but, to me, the above still stands. How to connect the dots to get to a place that feels good, I do not know. I would not be shocked if it turned out to be mostly about adjusting ourselves to it over time.
But I am almost 100% positive we will all* want this super power, in some much better and much more complete form, in our future lives. And not being able to have it will feel absolutely silly, from there on out forever.
The tradeoff is security and privacy. Important things. If you click the eye icon next to a password, or paste a secret to an env var you are now exploitable. If you have something you want to keep private or shred this is another place to delete (or forget to do so). So there are plenty of anti-benefits to this superpower.
People already have traded privacy and a comprehensive personality profile for silly streams of video, photos and text on social media for the past 20 years. Imagine what happens, when you get something immensely useful out of it.
Today, nobody will work with you, if you are unable to manage E-Mail. In the future, nobody will work with you, if you can't properly use the time information dimension that this technology enables. You will simply look demented by comparison.
It’s only a superpower if you have full control over the data and no one else has access. If someone else has control and access, it’s THEIR superpower over you.
The only way to make that happen is to store that information somewhere. The best way to do anything, that I just want the benefits of, is automatically.
And now we are here. It feels monstrous but, to me, the above still stands. How to connect the dots to get to a place that feels good, I do not know. I would not be shocked if it turned out to be mostly about adjusting ourselves to it over time.
But I am almost 100% positive we will all* want this super power, in some much better and much more complete form, in our future lives. And not being able to have it will feel absolutely silly, from there on out forever.