Saturday, 16 October 2010
The Future
the future i beleiev is something we all want to knowas to what or how things will be. the following are some of the films that have really captured my eyes when it comes to the future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM5yepZ21pI
blade runner is a movie that was released in the 80s and focuses on the future, from the link below the trailer will show you how it is the year november 2019.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lW0F1sccqk
Vernor vinge had a great passion for cyberspace according to http://mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html vernor talks about singularity which is about how people themselves can become like a computer. the following is what he stated
The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence. There are several means by which science may achieve this breakthrough (and this is another reason for having confidence that the event will occur):
- There may be developed computers that are "awake" and superhumanly intelligent. (To date, there has been much controversy as to whether we can create human equivalence in a machine. But if the answer is "yes, we can", then there is little doubt that beings more intelligent can be constructed shortly thereafter.)
- Large computer networks (and their associated users) may "wake up" as a superhumanly intelligent entity.
- Computer/human interfaces may become so intimate that users may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent.
- Biological science may provide means to improve natural human intellect
the book of William Gibsons Neuroamcer is very interesting as it is a plot about a man who is a computer hacker.....
nano technology
artificial intelligence
