iReality : The Uncovering 60 minutes with Professor Suarez

1. iReality: The Uncovering60 minuteswith Professor Suarez In a world where reality is not just physical anymore. Welcome to the cyber highway; a Virtual Database.

2. Tonight’s 60 MINUTES Topic • Integration of Technology in our personal and professional lives, has created an augmented/virtual reality. This will eventually take over our physical interactions with human kind for good.

3. 60 MINUTES • Anderson Cooper: Welcome, this is your first time on 60 Minutes is that correct? • Prof. Suarez: Yes, yes it is. • Anderson Cooper: Well we are going to be here a while so let’s start to dig in shall we?... Um you mentioned before the interview that you have a book that just came out, is that correct? • Prof. Suarez: Um Yes, it is out now and available for purchase as a hardcover, paperback, and e-book as well online.

4. 60 MINUTES • Cooper: Excellent, could you tell us more about your idea(s) in the way you approached the writing of your book. • Suarez: [Leans Back in Chair and Crosses legs] Well to be honest it occurred while I was looking at the interactions of our society in the work place to even out in public and with our families. I saw that in all ages, ethnic backgrounds, and other civil areas, we are beginning to rely heavily on technology more than ever before. And quite frankly that was what struck me the most. Our dependency and use of it in our world.

5. 60 Minutes • Cooper: I see, but if I may, isn’t the advancement in technology the reason why we’re are progressing as a society? Only getting closer and closer to a more unified form of interaction? It is the reason that we are able to take in so much information as shown in studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cal Tech.

6. 60 Minutes • Suarez: I’ll stop you right there. You see while we have this idea that this “progression of technology interaction” is only getting better. How could you argue such a case is only positive? The physical interactions between humans is diminishing right before our very eyes. Our generations are creating an atmosphere where it is more suitable and modern to pull out their phone, tablet, laptop, or other mobile device for a form of talking and connecting to others. As you will see in my book I call this transformation of interaction “iReality” and that is the the world into which we are transforming ourselves into, on a global level.

7. 60 Minutes • Suarez: iReality is this concept of a world in which interaction is majority based off the virtual database of wireless fiber optic networks in cooperation with mobile tech devices. These devices open portals or as advertised, social networks including: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and much more applications that allow conversations to occur seamlessly. • Cooper: So you’re saying that these social networks are portals of interaction in Cyberspace essentially? Correct me if I’m wrong but that is the impression I am getting from you.

8. 60 MINUTES • Suarez: That is correct, you see we choose to substitute these forms of interaction because they are convenient and even sometimes less…. Oh how should I say it…direct. • Cooper: Direct as in what way Professor? • Suarez: Here’s an example, let’s say you find someone appealing or attractive, we choose virtual reality instead of physical unless we can make an instant connection. • Cooper: I’m not sure I understand. • Suarez: Look at it like this, if you truly wish to make an impression on this person, you try and interact the best way you can over these social networking mediums. • Cooper: Yes, okay go on.

9. 60 Minutes • Suarez: Thus you would rather interact with this person via virtual communication rather thank risking an awkward situation up front in person where you could falter and make a mistake. Social networks in today’s society are meant to cater the social needs of people like you and me. That is why it becomes easier to respond to a message online in this data base form. Humans can become fearful of rejection or anything less of what they consider a smooth conversation.

10. 60 MINUTES • Cooper: I can see where you are going with this. However, wouldn’t you see this as a more efficient way of communicating with families and even your own professional area with your colleagues. • Suarez: Now we are digging deeper into the topic. I do believe that technology has done its job to connect us with people from all around the world even our loved ones at times when physical interaction is not possible. It’s a splendid and gratifying benefit of telecommunications and other progression. Nevertheless, there are cons to this scenario.

11. 60 MINUTES • Cooper: You are telling me that there are negative aspects to being connected better than ever before and at the grasp of your fingers on your mobile device? I cannot say that I agree professor. • Suarez: Well that is why I am here to open your mind to another perspective Mr. Cooper. Now, I am a family man as much as yourself or the next person providing for their families. The technology in our day and age however has caused a decrease in critical and analytical thinking in people everywhere.

12. 60 MINUTES • Suarez: With the vast space of the internet it can become easy for plagiarism to occur and false information to be spread on forms of higher education including journals, scientific findings, and other scholarly sources. It also makes it somewhat easy for hackers to access and manipulate documents if able to crack the encryption code of a secured website. Since much of my research has to be stored somewhere where I can always pull it up. Online and virtual data bases seem to be the go to area when storing such important work in my field. While I personally don’t like the idea of vulnerability, again it’s the sense of convenience that allows me to do it anyway.

13. 60 MINUTES • Cooper: I see how this may affect your own professional life professor but you’ve yet to mention its effects on fa--- • Suarez: Yes Family, where it boils down to is the communication of families with mobile devices. You will want to be teaching your families the most up to date way of interacting via tech mobile devices that it will become a hassle to keep up at the speed of technology improvements. That time could have been spent teaching them real life scenario conversations and ways to communicate with friends, teachers, and adult figures. It becomes a focused necessity to keep them up to date with the latest formats on communication in a virtual world and less time spent reading an actual book, not an electronic version.

14. 60 minutes • Cooper: So what your saying is that the focus of families and individuals are likely to be geared in this data base of virtual social communication? Valid point professor. But how would you describe a scenario where people have actually chosen to be involved more into a virtual greeting rather than in person. • Suarez: It’s practically everywhere. Go on a public bus, university shuttle, walking, work area, or taxi. The majority of the time you will find people plugged in to their augmented worlds of flashing data and accessible media content.

15. 60 Minutes • Cooper: When you say augmented do you mean one similar to an enhanced technological vision? • Suarez: When I refer to an augmented vision I am talking about our current vision locked on to our mobile devices. The bits of flashing information and updates keep at at ease knowing that our interactions are being kept alive. As well as the speed and access to which we are able to view these are just sometimes a click away. • Cooper: I see how you have come to such a conclusion professor, but could you end our first half of the interview by showing your claimed observations and theory of what is happening to humans as a result of thus augmented vision?

16. 60 MINUTES • Suarez: Well before I dive into this explanation you have to understand that the material of which I speak of has been conducted by my various colleagues and I. We have been compiling this data throughout the years and have hard evidence and trend of actions in the area of cyber space activity. • Cooper: Well we do have all your documentation here professor that back up your claims. Feel free to move forward with your explanations. • Suarez: Very well. Humans in general have had this capacity to remain in touch with technology as much as possible. The most effort is put into teaching the functions of various software and computer dominant activities now in today’s society. Resulting in our own processing of information that we constantly are exposed to through high information portals that allow rapid eye movement and the analysis within our brains to know how to react to certain technological phenomena. It is augmented due to this. Not only did we see this in urban areas, but also suburban, rural, and metropolitan areas all over the world. Our eyes were not initially exposed or meant for rapid information to be analyzed all at one point or time. This is one way or minds act more like operated/programmed software; trained to decode data.

17. 60 MINUTES • Cooper: Are the most recent generations of children susceptible to this environment? How would you say that other social factors or media have involved the use of technological integration within the lives of many? • Suarez: Yes, children and young teens are most at harm of this sort of activity today if not taken seriously into account what their education in technology is affecting in their lives as a whole. • Cooper: How is tech-ed being used in a maleficent way as quoted in your book on Chapter 12: Rise of Machines, Fall of Humanity? Also could you further elaborate on the generations that are prone to this ‘augmented reality’ you are arguing along with consequences of that?

18. 60 Minutes • Suarez: But of course. Generations growing up in this technologically run world do not necessarily notice that their involvements are figments of an augmented reality. The film(s) the Terminator and its sequels are prime examples. The film shows the machines cyborgs and their visions to be red with white lettering forms of data and analysis of their surrounding area via their software system. This is similar to what is becoming of newer and newer generations. From young children to teens to adults the generations closer and closer to the turn of the millennia do not know what it means to go on and do social activities, a household task, have fun, without some sort of use of a mobile web based device. If its fun let’s record it to always remember how much fun we had. If it’s a home improvement chore, let’s Google it on the web for answers. If it involves the work place, the computer is the most efficient way to take down data and store information. The key words are efficiency and interaction.

19. 60 MINUTES • Suarez: We are trading the interaction that once held humans so close together through physical communication to a faster, efficient, and less tedious form of work that we would have had to do. That’s why I stopped you at the beginning when you said “technology is getting better”. Better is not the word, efficient is. Our visions are becoming one with our devices. Notifications of email, text being typed, and colored screens are the reflections given off your eyes when you interface with your personal devices. It won’t be long until it becomes that much more efficient and fun for some people; that physical interaction (only when necessary) will be disregarded all together. Our personal forms of interactions with humans will be looked back at as an aged system or practice. • To Be Continued…..