Food for thought: Referencing Ray Kurzweils The Singularity is Near, in Michael Shermers The Believing Brain, he states: Science and technology have changed our world more in the past century than it changed in the previous hundred centruies - it took ten thousand years to get from the cart to the airplane, but only sixty-six years to get from powered flight to a lunar landing. Moores law of computer power doubling every eitheen months continues unabated and is now down to abouta year. Computer scientists calculate that there have been thirty-two doublings since World War II, and that as early as 2030 we have may encounter the singularity- the point at which total computational power will rise to levels that are so far beyond anything we can imagine that they will appear nearly infinite and thus, relatively speaking, be indistinguishable from omniscience. When this happens the world will change more in a decade than it did in the previous thousand decades. This is another reason why I love science!
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:29:12 +0000
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