So, what about the future? Huxley has shown what his future looks like, but many other minds have shown their predicted futures as well. One such mind is the one that truly helped technology, and computing as a whole, get to where it is today. In a recent interview with theverge.com’s Nilay Patel, Bill Gates had mentioned his stance on many issues currently being debated by the United Nations. Numerous topics were discussed, including the futures of health, farming, money, and technology. These topics were especially focused on the middle and lower classes. During the health segment of the interview, Gates mentioned that “polio, guinea worm, elephantiasis, river blindness, and blinding trachoma can all be eradicated by 2030,” and “the number …show more content…
While never specifically stated, it is presumed that Cloudbank is entirely digital in its construction, allowing for a very different style of architecture and life. Cloudbank’s cityscape is composed entirely of ornate skyscrapers, and the roads are etched with beautiful carvings and drawings. Everything in the city is simply beautiful. It is the ideals of the people, instead, that resonate perfectly with the ideals of today. Cloudbank operates completely on the opinions of the people. All aspects of the city are able to be completely controlled through polls. From the next fast food restaurant to the weather tomorrow, Cloudbank is completely malleable. There was just one difference- not everyone’s votes were equal. A city with no money or needs still needs a currency, and the currency of Cloudbank was popularity. The more influential a citizen was, the more they were able to influence and modify their city. This currency was completely accepted, because the lives of the citizens in Cloudbank are also completely malleable. Any citizen would be able to choose to do whatever they wish to do as a career, for careers were primarily for the benefit of the person wanting one. (Interestingly, this resonates with the Humanistic perspective of psychology, which many psychologists consider to be quite opposite from the Behaviouristic perspective, which was used substantially in …show more content…
What’s the use of doing what you love if no one remembers what you discovered? Why have a place that everyone can influence, when the decisions that are made one day are the same as the decisions made one year ago. After all, people’s ideas always become cyclical eventually. The Camerata show us that even in a place that many would consider perfect, there can still be trouble. Cloudbank had no manipulation, no social hierarchy, no jobs or conflict or any issue at all. In fact, the biggest problem that Cloudbank had was that the people had too much control over what they wanted. The citizens’ ideas were fleeting, and while they meant well, they inadvertently created a place with no permanence or sense of worth. Many optimistic futurists believe that if we are just able to achieve self-enlightenment, humanity could be spared all pain and suffering. Transistor, unfortunately, shows us that this is not the
Take for example the prominent futurist Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil was among the first to anticipate the rise of the internet in the nineties, while most prominent scientists refused to believe that the sparsely connected ancient computers would ever have any true effect on the World. Nowadays we take the internet and its vast source of knowledge for granted, as if it had always existed. Although his prediction for the growth of the internet is impressive, he has made many other predictions, an astounding 70% of so have proved to be true. His latest, and most controversial, is the prediction that “We will successfully reverse-engineer the human brain by the mid-2020s. By the end of that decade, computers will be capable of human-level intelligence. Kurzweil puts the date of the Singularity — never say he's not conservative — at 2045. In that year, he estimates, given the vast increases in computing power and the vast reductions in the cost of same, the quantity of artificial intelligence created will be about a billion times the sum of all the human intelligence that exists today.” (Grossman). Kurzweil came to this prediction based off of exponential graphs he extrapolated out, and to this point in time they’ve been highly accurate. If he’s correct I believe that in the next coming years the scientific discoveries
...government to maintain in order to make sure that self-interest encourages parties to be honest with each other in order to be committed and make ‘good’ decisions for the society. Many people get more conservative with their age, contrary Hayek, who became more radical. Although he had favoured central banking for most of his life, in the 1970s he became vocal and starts advocating denationalizing money. Private enterprises that issued different currencies, he argued, would have more impact to maintain their currency’s purchasing power. Customers could choose the best from among competing currencies. Whether they would revert to a reference standard was a question that Hayek was too much of a believer in spontaneous order to predict. With the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, some economic consultants have considered Hayek’s currency system as a replacement.
When talking about the future of technology, one can only imagine what it will be down the road. The future of technology evokes many questions about the preservation of human existence, human advancement and intelligence. Some writers even discuss their positions on the future of technology and human kind. Writers such as James J. Bell, who explains the theory of the ‘Singularity’. In summary, he states that the rate of technological advancement, compared to human intelligence, will one day reach the ‘singularity’ were it will surpass the human mind (pg. 52). We may never know if technology will ever have the power to surpass the human intellect or what the consequences will be if it does attain these capabilities. Will humans still maintain control over them, or will they control us? Theses eight articles illustrate the implicit and explicit control that technology holds over humans in the future.
Technology turns into something new everyday. From computers to smartphones, technology comes in all shapes and sizes. Most people hope to receive new advancements from technology to do more activities for them. This is not in the best interest for mankind. In Ray Bradbury’s three short stories The Veldt, The Pedestrian, and August 2026, Bradbury describes three different worlds, where he shows the possible outcome of the world if technology advances too far. Each story leads to negative effects on humans and the worlds that they live in. Technology does not have all of the solutions to present day solutions.
...ers. "Finally, just as computers shape our world, so our own dreams and desires influence technological change. Where will our dreams and desires drive the technology of the future?" (241). Eventually, we need to be able to 'read the world,' (239). Computers will continue to impact our ways of life. People have begun to experience more leisure and less hard labor because of computer-related technologies. Perhaps in the future, these luxuries will be extended to the poor, and human rights and equality issues will be improved. As people become more connected, they will hopefully become more aware.
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. (Ray Bradbury). He says this quote because in the book “The Veldt”, he describes technology as useful in the beginning of the short story. But later in the book, he wanted to get out of the house with his kids and his wife but the kids and his wife were whining about it so they stayed in the house and that is where George and Lydia died by tigers. Ray Bradbury wrote more than forty novels and was married to a woman named Marguerite McClure. “The Veldt” was a science fiction book that was based on the parents and two children that were spoiled and technology took over their lives when the children became more evil over time.
When they wanted to save photos online instead of on your personal computer, they are able to use “cloud computing” service. Cloud computing means that the transfer of computing data or information over the internet. Not just to keep data in your personal computer, they are able to save the data on internet server to open their data in any computer. In this report we will walk through about what is cloud computing, what kinds of model did cloud computing have, types of cloud computing, benefits of cloud computing, and security.
A well supported outlook towards the future of technology would be “cautiously optimistic.” Nuclear fission is one example of this. While is did further our understanding of atomic theory and resulted in a solution to many energy woes, it also caused the tragedies of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Chernobyl. Looking towards the 21st century, artificial intelligence is shaping up to be another highly controversial piece of technology that we are only beginning to understand. As George Santayana once said, “those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” We can only hope that the world has learned an important lesson from these tragedies: never underestimate the power of
Computer science is broad and invent the future for us by developing techniques and architectures for more advanced computing and by developing the more cool applications. Most of the things that are related to computer science, benefit us. I am pretty sure that in the future too, it would most likely benefit us. In the future, there will be much more advanced technologies. We can also use the powerful computer in the medical field, such as, helping physicians and nurses. With all the technologies that we have, I am sure that we are able to build all that and help doctor considering a patient’s diagnosis. One of the biggest role that computer science play towards society nowadays is social media. In my opinion, transition point in the field of Computer Science will continue to build more powerful technologies in the future. I guess in the year of 2035, everything and every activities will be done automatically by technologies that is built from Computer Science and others. I am sure that computer science will continue to make progress and make a difference in the world. Another thing to remember is there are still so much more things that computer science can do to make a difference and of course a better
As crytocurrency becomes more accepted throughout the world, so are the principals and ideals connected with it. It advocates and spreads the thought of putting power back into the hands of the people through its decentralization and open collaboration properties. These properties as well as the platform’s openness have made many economic innovations possible. The idea that currency should be for the people, by the people, has influenced people to start new systems that put power back in our hands. I believe that this is why cryptocurrency has, and will continue, to change the world.
Scientific breakthroughs rise exponentially, with the potential for new ideas every few seconds, and 3.) The point at which the future cannot be predicted beyond a scientific sense. Looking solely at the first concept, technological singularity is the most pressing in today’s society, especially with multiple films depicting apocalyptic environments that are a direct result of A.I. Evidence of this event can be shown when computer power is plotted against Moore’s law, a predicted rate of computational evolution devised by Gordon E. Moore in 1965.... ... middle of paper ...
It is ironical that currency, which was first made by man many thousands of years ago, could get replaced by something which was invented just 3-4 years back and that to an online currency.
A community cloud is controlled and used by a group of organizations that have shared interests, such as specific security requirements or a common mission.
As far as computers in the future, I feel that they are going to play a major role. They will be in everyday life, in everything we do. There will be many areas affected by the wide use of computers. Areas such as: home, work, schools, automobiles, electronics, and humans. Although these areas are already affected, they will be even more as we move into the future.
In todays world computers are very useful because there is weather forcasting and many other things. People can forcast weather by this process by computers . Advertising is one of the most progressive field these days . Computer animation is the art of creating moving images by this use of computers . We can use use internation network (internet) to check mail, play games, find other's addresses , etc. Scientists also use computers for their experiments . There are some documents to type. For example MS Word , MS Exel , etc . We can do our school project also by using computers. There is one thing which is very conveinient for us it is that we can talk or chat with people who are in another country by using google talk , yahoo messenger , etc . It is not at all expensive . It is better than using a telephone or a mobile . We can also send voicemails through google talk , yahoo messenger , etc . We can play many games using a computer . For example pinball , soltaire , spider soltaire , etc . Believe it or not, but the age of computers is upon us. I believe Computers are not only here to stay, but in my opinion computers are the wave of the future. Only a device like the computer can change the way we work, live, and think. I see computers taking us places where no man has gone before. students can receive an education from their own home Taking classes online is an option that a growing number of students are taking advantage of. These classes are making a college education available for students who are not able to attend a traditional university or college. Computers are taking us places where a lot of us thought was not possible. Truly it is my belief and opinion, the computer is one of the most incredible inventions of this time period or any other.