By the end of this year, there'll be nearly a billion people on this planet that actively use social networking sites. The one thing that all of them have in common is that they're going to die. While that might be a somewhat morbid thought, I think it has some really profound implications that are worth exploring.
Deri ne fund te ketij viti, do te kete rreth nje miliard njerez ne kete planet qe perdorin faqet e rrjeteve sociale ne menyre aktive. Gjeja qe te gjithe keto kane te perbashket eshte qe ato do te vdesin. Nderkohe qe ky mund te duket nje mendim i frikshem, une mendoj se ka disa implikime vertete te thella qe jane te vlefshme per ti zbuluar.
What first got me thinking about this was a blog post authored earlier this year by Derek K. Miller, who was a science and technology journalist who died of cancer. And what Miller did was have his family and friends write a post that went out shortly after he died. Here's what he wrote in starting that out. He said, "Here it is. I'm dead, and this is my last post to my blog. In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down from the punishments of my cancer, then my family and friends publish this prepared message I wrote -- the first part of the process of turning this from an active website to an archive."
Ajo cfare me beri mua ne fillim te mendoj rreth kesaj ishte publikim ne nje blog i shkruar disa muaj me pare nga Derek K. Miller, qe ishte nje gazetar shkence dhe teknologjie qe vdiq nga kanceri. Miller ikerkoi familjes dhe miqve te tij te shkruanin nje shpallje qe u publikua pak pasi ai kish vdekur. Ja cfare shkruajti ai duke filluar nga fillimi. Ai tha, "Ja. Une jam i vdekur, dhe ky eshte postimi im i fundit ne blogun tim. Perpara, une kerkova qe ne momentin qe trupi im do te vdese nga denimi i kancerit, familja dhe miqte e mi te publikojne kete mesazh qe une kam shkruar -- qe do te jete pjesa e pare e procesit te kthimit te kesaj faqeje aktive ne nje arkiv."
Now, while as a journalist, Miller's archive may have been better written and more carefully curated than most, the fact of the matter is that all of us today are creating an archive that's something completely different than anything that's been created by any previous generation.
Nderkohe qe si gazetar, arkivat e Millerit mund te jene shkruar me mire dhe ruajtur me me kujdes, se shumica, fakti eshte qe ne te gjithe sot kemi krijuar nje arkiv qe eshte dicka komplet e ndryshme nga cdo gje qe eshte krijuar nga cdo brez i meparshem.
Consider a few stats for a moment. Right now there are 48 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every single minute. There are 200 million Tweets being posted every day. And the average Facebook user is creating 90 pieces of content each month. So when you think about your parents or your grandparents, at best they may have created some photos or home videos, or a diary that lives in a box somewhere. But today we're all creating this incredibly rich digital archive that's going to live in the cloud indefinitely, years after we're gone. And I think that's going to create some incredibly intriguing opportunities for technologists.
Konsideroni per pak minuta disa statistika. Deri tani jane 48 ore video qe vendosen ne YouTube cdo minute. Jane 200 milion Tweets qe postohen cdo dite. Dhe mesatarja e perdoruesve te Facebook krijon 90 pjese te permbajtjes cdo muaj. Keshtu qe kur mendoni rreth prinderve ose gjysherve tuaj, me e mira qe mund te kene krjuar jane disa foto ose vidio shtepie, ose ndonje ditar qe mund te gjendet ne ndonje kuti. Por sot ne te gjithe jemi duke krijuar kete arkiv dixhital teper te pasur qe do te jetoje ne re ne nje kohe te pacaktuar, vite pasi ne jemi larguar. Dhe une mendoj qe do te krijoje disa mundesi teper intriguese per teknologet.
Now to be clear, I'm a journalist and not a technologist, so what I'd like to do briefly is paint a picture of what the present and the future are going to look like. Now we're already seeing some services that are designed to let us decide what happens to our online profile and our social media accounts after we die. One of them actually, fittingly enough, found me when I checked into a deli at a restaurant in New York on foursquare.
Per te qene te qarte, une jam gazetar dhe jo teknolog, dhe me pak fjale ajo qe dua te bej eshte te pikuroj tablone sesi e tashmja dhe e ardhmja do te duken. Tashme jemi duke pare disa sherbime qe jane te dizenjuara per te na lene neve per te vendosur se cfare ndodh me profilet online dhe llogarite tona te mediave sociale pasi vdesim. Njera prej tyre ne fakt, shume e pershtatshme, me kapi kur klikova mbi "gjysem te gatshme" ne nje restorant ne New York mbi katror.
(Recording) Adam Ostrow: Hello. Death: Adam? AO: Yeah. Death: Death can catch you anywhere, anytime, even at the Organic. AO: Who is this? Death: Go to ifidie.net before it's too late.
(Regjistrim) Adam Ostrow: Pershendetje. Vdekja: Adam? AO: Po. Vdekja: Vdekja mund te te kapi kudo, ne cdo kohe, edhe tek restorante Organike. AO: Kush eshte? Vdekja: Shko tek ifidie.net perpara se te jete teper vone.
(Laughter)
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Adam Ostrow: Kind of creepy, right? So what that service does, quite simply, is let you create a message or a video that can be posted to Facebook after you die. Another service right now is called 1,000 Memories. And what this lets you do is create an online tribute to your loved ones, complete with photos and videos and stories that they can post after you die. But what I think comes next is far more interesting.
Adam Ostrow: Pak ngjethese, apo jo? Pra, ky sherbim ben, qe, pak a shume te lejon te krijosh nje mesazh ose nje vidio qe mund te te postohet ne Facebook pasi vdes. Nje sherbim tjeter tani quhet 1000 Kujtimet. Kjo te lejon te krijosh nje dedikim online personave tuaj te dashur, duke e kompletuar me foto, vidio dhe histori qe do te postohen pasi vdes. Ajo qe do te vije me pas eshte shume me interesante.
Now a lot of you are probably familiar with Deb Roy who, back in March, demonstrated how he was able to analyze more than 90,000 hours of home video. I think as machines' ability to understand human language and process vast amounts of data continues to improve, it's going to become possible to analyze an entire life's worth of content -- the Tweets, the photos, the videos, the blog posts -- that we're producing in such massive numbers. And I think as that happens, it's going to become possible for our digital personas to continue to interact in the real world long after we're gone thanks to the vastness of the amount of content we're creating and technology's ability to make sense of it all.
Shume prej jush jane te familjarizuar me Deb Roy qe, ne Mars, demonstroi sesi ishte ne gjendje per te analizuar me shume se 90,000 ore vidio shtepie. Une mendoj sesi aftesite e makinave per te kuptuar gjuhen njerezore dhe procesuar sasi te medha te dhenash vazhdojne te permiresohen, do te filloje te behet e mundur analizimi i te gjithe jetes me vleren e permbajtjes -- ne Tweeter, fotot, vidiot, postimet ne blog -- qe ne jemi duke prodhuar ne nje numer kaq te madh. Dhe une mendoj qe nderkohe qe kjo ndodh, do te filloje te behet e mundur per personalitetet tona dixhitale per te vazhduar per te ndervepruar ne boten tone reale per nje kohe te gjate pasi ne nuk jemi me ne saje te pafundesise te shumte se permbajtjes qe ne kemi krijuar dhe aftesise teknologjike qe te beje ndenjat pjese te te gjithe kesaj.
Now we're already starting to see some experiments here. One service called My Next Tweet analyzes your entire Twitter stream, everything you've posted onto Twitter, to make some predictions as to what you might say next. Well right now, as you can see, the results can be somewhat comical. You can imagine what something like this might look like five, 10 or 20 years from now as our technical capabilities improve. Taking it a step further, MIT's media lab is working on robots that can interact more like humans. But what if those robots were able to interact based on the unique characteristics of a specific person based on the hundreds of thousands of pieces of content that person produces in their lifetime?
Tani do te fillojme te shohim ketu me shume ekperimente. Nje sherbim quhet Tweet im tjeter duke analizuar te gjithe nivelin tend te Twitter, cdo gje e publikuar ne Twitter, per te bere disa parashikime se cfare mund te thonit mbas. Tani, ashtu sic mund ta shihni rezultatet mund te jene pak a shume qesharake. Ju mund ta imagjinoni sesi dicka si kjo mund te duket ne 5, 10 ose 20 vjet, ashtu sikunder aftesite tona teknike te permiresuara. Duke bere nje hap perpara, laboratori i medias MIT eshte duke punuar mbi robotet qe mund te bashkeveprojne me shume si njerezore. Po cfare ndodh nese keto robote jane te afte te bashkeveprojne bazuar ne karakteristikat unike te nje personi specifik bazuar ne permbajtjen e qindra - mijera pjeseve qe personat prodhojne ne jeten e tyre?
Finally, think back to this famous scene from election night 2008 back in the United States, where CNN beamed a live hologram of hip hop artist will.i.am into their studio for an interview with Anderson Cooper. What if we were able to use that same type of technology to beam a representation of our loved ones into our living rooms -- interacting in a very lifelike way based on all the content they created while they were alive? I think that's going to become completely possible as the amount of data we're producing and technology's ability to understand it both expand exponentially. Now in closing, I think what we all need to be thinking about is if we want that to become our reality -- and if so, what it means for a definition of life and everything that comes after it. Thank you very much.
Me ne fund, mendo per kete skene te famshme nga nata e zgjedhjeve te 2008 ne Shtetet e Bashkuara, ku CNN projektoi drejtperdrejte nje hologram te nje artisti hip hop, "Will.i.am" ne studion e tyre per nje interviste me Anderson Cooper. Dhe sikur ne te ishim te afte per ta perdorur te njejten lloj teknologjie per te projektuar nje perfaqesim te personave tone te dashur ne dhomen tone te ndenjes -- duke ndervepruar ne nje menyre shume te gjalle bazuar ne te gjithe permbajtjen qe krijuan nderkohe qe ishin gjalle? Une mendoj qe do te behet plotesisht i mundur si dhe sasia e te dhenave qe ne jemi duke prodhuar dhe aftesise teknologjike per ta kuptuar ate te dyja te zgjeruara ne menyre eksponenciale. Si pefundim, une mendoj qe ne te gjithe duhet te mendojme nese kjo gje duam qe te behet realiteti jone -- dhe nese eshte keshtu, cfare nenkupton per nje perkufizim te jetes dhe cdo gjeje qe vjen pas kesaj. Shume faleminderit.
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