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Abhesh Verma

Abhesh joins nexGTV with over 16 years of experience across several industries such as entertainment, e-commerce, SEO, advertisement, Venture Capital and Real Estate. He was previously associated with the digital entertainment portal Saavn and Saavn Interactive as its Chief Growth Officer and CEO. In his new role at nexGTV, he will be spearheading executive decision-making and long-term strategic planning for the organisation.

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Is the World Becoming the New Cybertron? - Digital Television, Robotics, AI and the Future of Human Evolution

In the future, the demand for constant and personalized entertainment will be such that public infrastructure and personal devices, for instance your mobile device and the bus stop's screen, might align to provide each user a unique experience.

Cybertron is the name of the fictional planet where Transformers, the machine creatures with a unique ability to convert into any form, live. Its inhabitants are fully integrated machines that have wires for nerves and grated gears and iron fillings for food. Going by the way things are going, it might just be the description of earth, or a significant proportion of its inhabitants, from many, many years into the future.

Smart TVs, Cloud computing, digital televisions, Artificial Intelligence, responsive robots, the fiction of Jules Verne and sci-fi movies such as I is fast becoming a reality. The entire world is generating millions of tonnes of data as the number of devices is multiplying at exponential speeds simultaneously. While rampant automation may be a serious issue facing the global economy at large, for consumers, it is a time to enjoy fast, intuitive services, on-point customer feedback and increased interaction with machines in every aspect of their lives. I-o-T or the Internet-of-Things, is going to be the next big step in technological development, through which the entire day of an average person will remain interconnected through digitized machinery. From the Smart TV in the bedroom to the smartphone, car and the office system, each of them will remain interconnected to enhance user accessibility to any device. 

Even entertainment, the holy grail of human interaction where individual creativity completely obviated the space for machines, is being partly influenced by them. If they could not be the performer, machines are going the other way to influence the audience. Through big data and analytics, machines now decide what comes up on our YouTube feed on the recommended list on our Smart TVs, thus influencing what we see and think.

AI and Entertainment

The advent of OTT, and its tremendous success, as the ideal cusp between the worlds of television and content accessed from the internet has been witnessed by the world. Millennials are exposed to multiple-screens from a young, impressionistic age, and they prefer to consume their content on various screens as per their convenience. Admittedly, the privacy, comfort and options offered by TV are very limited when compared to the internet. Furthermore, it is the requirement of the constantly on-the-move generation of today to have a platform which can help them to easily access content and be convenient to use at the same time. In the future, the demand for constant and personalized entertainment will be such that public infrastructure and personal devices, for instance your mobile device and the bus stop's screen, might align to provide each user a unique experience.

One of the major aspects of rising automation and unemployment will be its effect in creating more viewers. As robotics simplifies people’s jobs, they are bound to spend more leisure time, thus creating more demand for content. Furthermore, the lines between content and viewership will gradually fade away as the consumer becomes the uploader. Can we replace this reference with SPOTlight as India’s first mobile-based talent discovery (UGC) platform! Thus, devices as well as providers who can make provision for smooth creation and transfer of content to the websites of the users liking will be hugely popular and will definitely become a significant part of people’s day-to-day life. Already we are seeing the presence of VR and AR devices to create virtual realities that can create strong simulations of the real world to give immersive experiences. The audience of the future will not only consume content, it will want to upload its every day experience for others to consume.

Technology is fast permeating into each and every physical, intellectual and emotional experiences of our lives. We are at the threshold of a giant leap in the evolutionary progression, and the outcome seems to be a place where ‘digital’ is the dominant word. Millennials need to fast familiarize and equip themselves with these tools of the future, for even in the times to come, only the fittest shall survive.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in the article above are those of the authors' and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of this publishing house


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