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Connectivity. What does that mean in today's world? That's what Chet and Gary

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discussed today. Let's go!

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Good morning Chet and how are you today? I'm doing great Gary how about yourself?

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Well it's been so long since we've done one of these almost forgot how to do it.

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Oh are we doing something? I think we're doing something today. Yeah it's been a

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while. Well the microphone's working so it's working. It took me a while to

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figure out how to work it but it's working. So today I think we're going to

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talk a little bit about connectivity. And that's also the subject of your of our

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meeting. That's right living in a connected world 14. So if I don't get this

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on here before the meeting this information will be good for after the

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meeting. There you go. So just what does connectivity mean to us as Apple Club

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members? Well it's an interesting thing and I think it's as seniors that we

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don't tend to be as connected as our kids are. You know when you take a look at

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you've got all the social media sites and other things that are online online

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news and online banking and so forth and we tend not to be quite as connected

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as the kids. And I think that's something that we need to make sure that we

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better understand because what we're seeing in the world around us is banks

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are going to online banking stores are going to online ordering a produce that

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you can have delivered to your house. I mean you can have Kroger's bring food to

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you and we don't have a Kroger's store anywhere around us and they'll bring

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food to your door. Those kind of things you can order a pizza and have it

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delivered to your door all of that stuff online. That's one form of being

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connected but there's something I think that's even more important and that's

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the idea that we can actually be connected by documents that we have

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shared with other people. And there are two different ways we can share

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something. If I create a note with the Notes app I can share that with somebody

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else by making a copy and sending them a copy. Interestingly though in my mind

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that doesn't connect us. Why? Because when I copied it I actually created two

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independent documents. If I change the original after I make the copy the copy

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doesn't know I did that. If the person I sent the copy to makes a change I don't

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know anything about it. So we didn't really connect each other. I sent you

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some information and you know I'm around but it's kind of like putting

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something in an envelope and mailing it. If I change the original after I mail it

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you don't know about it and what you do with the original or with your copy I

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don't know. So we're connected for a brief amount of time? A very brief amount of

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time. In fact I got it to the point in my own mind of thinking about the copy as

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a historical document. It's a snapshot of the original at a point in time and it

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doesn't evolve after that. The other side of this is the technology that we

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have available to us especially in the Apple world allows us to actually share

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a document for the purposes of collaboration. When we do that there's

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only one copy of the document. It's sitting in iCloud and both of us see the

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same document. So if I collaborate with you on a note and you look in and say

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wait a minute it should have said this and you changed it I immediately know

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you changed it. I can change it and immediately change your back. I looked

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up the information on notes and you can share a note with up to a hundred other

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people. And as you make changes to it everybody sees the changes that are

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being made to it. So I think when we talk about collaboration when we talk about

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sharing when we talk about living in a connected world we need to start to think

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about what does it mean to be connected not what does it mean to contact make

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phone call to somebody send a something to the mail send them an email but to

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actually be connected to look at this and saying I'm sharing the same thing.

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Freeform is a great example of this. Freeform you can share with multiple

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people and you can have multiple people drawing on the freeform document all at

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the same time and you can actually see the keystrokes of the other people as

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they're drawing. That's in real time. In real time. Now notes there's a little bit

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of a lag. It tends to wait a few seconds when somebody's typing on their version

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before it posts it back to everybody else. But it's almost real time. So the

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difference is are we really being connected or are we simply notifying

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each other of historical fact. We know another real life example of this is

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creating a grocery list and sharing it. Yes. As you're shopping with your significant

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other your wife your girlfriend whatever you go separate ways and as you tick

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things off then the other party knows that they can see it was ticked off.

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That's right. Yes. So I think that's a pretty pretty cool feature because you

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could be at two different stores right and things will get ticked off. So yeah

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that's kind of a real life application for me anyway. Yeah and the thing that

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we're looking at is is going to get more and more interesting as we see a lot

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more robotics stuff show up. Robotics has exploded over the last couple of years.

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When you look at the state of the art of robots today their dexterity their

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mobility their ability to copy human actions has gotten so good that

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we're very very close to having robots that can work in the home cleaning and

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washing dishes and folding laundry and doing a whole lot of things like that.

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And a lot of people can say well I don't believe you but if you if you look at

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where the state of the art is we're probably within two years of that.

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Is the thing. And when you talk about well how in the world are they going to

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know how to do that that's the artificial intelligence side and that is

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another thing that is just literally blown up all over the place. We've figured

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out how to teach computers not program them teach them and once we knew how to

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do that then the our ability to do things through artificial intelligence are

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mind-boggling. So I think we're looking at realistically an environment that

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probably in the neighborhood of five plus years five years or so you're going

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to be able to buy a robot that you can put in your home that can take care of

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the house for you. We'll have our own butlers and maids. Butlers and maids. The

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interesting thing is that as we start doing that our dependence on the

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technology is going to increase. So I think one of the things for seniors and

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seniors can take advantage of these. The fact that you can have the system do

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things for you or you can have an electronic servo or robot or what do you

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want to call it that does things for you is the the real benefit that I see to

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seniors. But it does mean that we need to learn how to deal with that. Well

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there's also there's always that question of you know the dark side of

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that where people actually generate pictures AI pictures or voices to gain

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access excuse me access to personal data. No matter what you do there's always

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going to be a section of people that try to get around it and use it for for bad

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instead of for good. Can you point to any point in history where that has not

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been a true statement. That's what I said it's always gonna it's always been there.

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It's always gonna be there. That's right and it just means that we need to learn

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to do things differently. I remember when I was a kid growing up women never paid

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much attention to how they carry the purse. And now there's a great deal of

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time and energy put into how's the best way to carry a purse so somebody can't

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just grab it run away with it. So you know we learn things like that we learn

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to look for indicators that there is a potential problem. And I think that's

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the kind of thing that we're gonna have to find. There's a lot of talk in the

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industry at the moment with this ability to generate pictures and to mimic

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someone's voice and talking about requiring that the companies that build

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software that do those kind of things embed in that voice or that picture

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some kind of a code that says this is not real this was generated by chat

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Jpt or it's the hydro voice routine or something like that that's that's working

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out there. So there are some efforts to try to get a handle on this. Yeah as long

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as as long as safeguards are built into it that's what you're looking for.

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Well that's the thing that's kind of frightening you watch some of the new

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software that's shown up that's actually able to generate movies and you can go

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in and say create a character for me that looks like and then give it a line of

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dialogue and the mouth moves and the eyes and the eyebrows move and the head

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moves just like a human would move and you look at that person is

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saying those words. I can remember back with Forest Gump was the movie where

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they had Forest Gump talking to Kennedy and they actually made Kennedy's lips

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appear to say the words that he supposedly was saying and they did that

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by going back and finding speeches of his and capturing little snippets of

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pictures out of those with his lips moving in that that fashion and that's

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how they put that together we don't have to do that today. It's pretty simple now.

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Yeah it's very simple. So if they I guess if whoever designs these or gets these

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on the market if they would take as much care as Apple. Apple is a very secure

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company that's what they hang their head on is the security side because we're

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always getting security updates all the time. So if someone puts that much thought

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and effort into security on these AI then it can be used for good. Well it's

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interesting though that one of the phenomena that we see is that people

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want cheap. Oh yeah. And putting some of these extra bells and whistles in and

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some of the security features in cost more so they're not as cheap as the

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version that doesn't have them all. And somehow we've got to get through to

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people that the cheap version yes I can get it for ten dollars instead of twenty

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dollars is not the right answer when you're looking at some of this stuff.

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Well I'm sure we'll dive deeper into connectivity on Wednesday. Can't wait to

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hear the presentation. How many slides this time. Let's see I think it's around

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forty five forty five. Oh you're slacking. Well I want to have some more time for

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the table exercise than otherwise. Yeah this doesn't take quite as much energy

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as going through the artificial intelligence one and getting all that

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out. But I think that between artificial intelligence and this connectivity

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thing that's kind of setting the stage for where we're going in the near

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future. Well it's going to be interesting we can't wait it's going to be

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Wednesday the 14th from one to three happy Valentine's Day in advance so we

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love our members can't wait to see him. Right. Chad has been great as always. I

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think we'll end here and have a wonderful day. You too Gary. Bye. Bye.