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Creating the future Thomas Abraham
Creating the future
Thomas Abraham
The most interesting stories are about the future…and the future that is being created now.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120518-reaching-for-the-stars
http://www.darpa.mil/
Michio Kaku’s vision “By 2100 our destiny is to become like
the gods we once worshipped and feared.”
The tools: computers, nanotechnologies, artificial intelligence, biotechnology; quantum theory
MichioKaku’s predictions We will be able to manipulate objects
with the power of our minds With bio-tech, we will create perfect
bodies and extend our life spans; We will create life forms
With nano-technology we will create something out of nothing
We will ride in vehicles that will soar with no fuel—harness the power of the stars
Some of this is already happening http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-1808
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1950s-Vacuum tubes: room sized computers
1960s: Transistors: Mainframe computers for businesses
1970s: Integrated circuit boards- desk sized
1980s:silicon chips and pcs 1990s-Internet connects computers 2000s- chips freed from computers By 2020- the word computer would have
vanished?
Vision of the future based on ever cheaper computing power Moore’s Law: Number of transistors in
a chip will double every two years. Expected to end by around 2020, when
technological and physical barriers will be reached
The future of artificial intelligence http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/ray_k
urzweil_announces_singularity_university.html
http://singinst.org/ http://
www.bbc.com/news/technology-14574747
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/business_analytics/article/cognitive_computing.html
Some technological possibilities Computers “smarter” than humans
with AI; who controls who? Hardware, software and wetware
Human brains networked into computers? computers implanted into human brains?
Does any of this make life better, or people happier?
Perhaps we have survived because we are cavemen and women
Following the AI story http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/ http://singinst.org/ http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/e
n/business_analytics/article/cognitive_computing.html
Read Nature, Science and science news for tip offs
