𝗡𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲?! 🤖 - 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜 𝗮

𝗡𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲?! 🤖 - 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

🎯 It’s this time of the year. The AWS Community gets ready for the event of the year: re:Invent. And Werner Vogels publishes his tech predictions [1]. Like every year, a densely packed piece with loads of gems in it. Looking forward to his keynote on Thursday. This year Werner came up with 5 major themes, if I didn’t miscount. The first one is about:

“𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁”

🤔 I’m really split on this one. “Loneliness has reached epidemic proportions, affecting 1 in 6 people worldwide” and has serious implications on not only how we feel, but also how healthy we are as humans. So any means to improve this is highly welcome, right?

✅ 𝗬𝗲𝘀,

but even when I’m fascinated by the advances of AI and robotics, love to toy with the technology, delegate daunting tasks and explore new opportunities. This is all great. Werner showcases how this technology advance is successfully used to help humans with loneliness and provide urgently required care.

This is all good. Fascinating and net positive for humankind.

⚠️ 𝗕𝘂𝘁.

There is a possible future projecting from this. A future where we humans give up on human interactions and delegate our wellbeing to technology. It will be more efficient, easier and maybe more convenient at first glance. But it will be a very cold world, where humans are isolated from each other, individually taken care of by technology. This is not a world I want to live in.

💡 𝗦𝗼.

I think in a world of immense technology advance, where families spread across the globe, work is not bound to locations, big chunks of daily life are automated, we as humans need to index on human interactions. Build interactions & relations to other humans and maintain those. This makes life as a human thrive.

❤️ I guess we all have those simple moments. For me it could be sharing a beautiful landscape with a person I care for, maybe sitting together on a mattress in the boulder gym and laughing about a miserable fail. Yours will be different. But those are really important.

🔍 And just to make it clear, the possible bad future outlook which I outline above is not what Werner is predicting or incentivizing. He talks about a future where technology is augmenting human caretakers. This is good. We just need to take care that we don’t forget about the human caretaker in this, because they might not be needed. Seem to be easily be optimized away.

💭 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻? 💭 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀?

📖 Now let me read the next chapter of Werner’s predictions. Which one stand out the most for you?

[1] https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tech-predictions-for-2026-and-beyond.html