Saturday, February 16, 2013

The accelerating power of technology

 According to the Ray Kurzweil we heard about advantages and disadvantages of technology. For example, if we use solar cells energy, it will cover all needs that we will face in 2030. Also he explained that the reason for the failure of many of the invention is they do not have enough time to make them. Our species has evolved 100,000 years. We all use the last products of technology for produce other products. We live in a three-dimensional world, and go into the third dimension. It would be a vast improvement. Another example that shows how technology developed is cell phone and also medical one, such as diabetes and high blood pressure by using robot cells inside human’s body. Furthermore, it is time to look inside the human brain.
 We are able to reverse engineer the brain by 2020. We already had the 15 good models and simulations. In addition, the evolution of computers is clear when we compare old computers with the new one. He mentioned that 2010 computers will disappear. They will be very small. They will be embedded in the clothes. His main message of the video was that technological progress is exponential, not linear. The speed of these changes is depending on different factors.

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