The future of technology

Tom Cruise has a child.

Tom Cruise is now divorced.

Now we just need someone to kidnap her.....
 
http://www.businessinsider.com/leap-motion-2012-5

I'm not talking about the precogs and all that shit. Just the computer.

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The shitty thing with technological advancement is the lack of an off switch. The more we advance the faster we start advancing. It just keeps going up and up.

We will never stop and say, this is good right here, we've accomplished more than we could have dreamed and this is a nice spot right here. Instead we will keep trucking along full steam ahead until we destroy ourselves.

Obviously I have no idea where that point is, but to me it seems pretty likely we'll get there eventually. It's just in our nature.

Look how much everything changed in the last 200 years. Then look how much everything changed completely again in the last 20, even the last 10. It's insane how fast the rate increases. I think eventually we're just going to go to far. Maybe we already have.
 
I've heard the pace is something like 2x in terms of the micro chip evolution of size and cost.

For reference, you now have a device in your pocket with more computing power then a room full of inter-connected computers did in the 60's.

The chip will keep evolving (and getting cheaper) to the point where it will be possible to replicate the human brain with a connected system computers that won't take up an entire room or cost a ridiculous amount of money.

I will be investing in a EMP gun at that point haha.

 
It is important to distinguish who the 'we' is in all this. While 'we' in the generally western world continue to advance technologically at an exponential pace there are those places, where i'd say the majority of humankind lives, which remain cautiously rooted with a certain slow-growing level of technology. It will be interesting in our liftetime to examine how this disparity evolves and if it will be the source of some new kind of some yet un-concieved tension.

In those other parts of the world it seems technology is increasingly spread through commercial means by businesses who see a market there. For example many places in rural african have never seen a rotary or landline telephone yet have 'skipped' right to cell phones because telecommunication companiues can make a buck setting them up cheaply and then all of a sudden a village chief in a grass skirt is holding his first cell phone talking to other cheifs 5 mule ride days away.

The globalization of technological advancement will proceed increasingly unequally and we should be wary of that.
 
Now the next step is enabling physical touch in projected screens. A technology which is already in development

 
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