Experts: Technology Could Save or Destroy Civilization This Century
I was tempted to launch into a diatribe about how the smartest people all gathered in one room can only talk about the obvious, but then I realized that there was probably a lot more that was said, but was left out of the article.
There are truly some amazing things that are happening right now.
- From the same conference: New Power Suit Amplifies Human Strength
- Propulsion with no moving parts: Microwave engine gets a boost
- Chatbots march ever closer to passing the elusive Turing Test: King of the chatbots Nanotechnology continues its soon to be exponential growth: Improbable "Buckyegg" Hatched
- Quitting smoking is about to get a whole lot easier: Anti-nicotine vaccine could help smokers: researchers
- Etc, etc, etc!
A century? I think we'll have a pretty good clue in the next 20 years. By then, the Internet will have evolved into something that permeates our lives, oppressive regimes will have fallen to the irrepressible effects of free speech, some major diseases will no longer be giant causes of death, and computers will be able to match the human brain in computation ability, and we'll have our answer to Global Warming, either by technology, or by finding out it was a sham.
OR the Internet will be crippled by Microsoft's innability to fix its security problems, China and North Korea will continue to be able to block free speech at their borders and keep their populations ignorant, we'll find out that Cancer and AIDS are really friggin hard to kill, the end of Moore's Law will be shown to be a brick wall, and the seas will start to rise to uncontainable levels.
I can't wait!
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