Bonjour! I hope all is well with your good self and that life is beaming as gloriously as the sun in a filterless radiancey that is making you levitate with wonder. Onto something I have been pondering of late with the explosion of tablet computers; technology and its quantum leap into the 21st century. Experts say that Technology evolves in spans of exponential, concentrated growth. When I think about this and stage technology was at when I was a kid, I find it astounding to think where we might be in 50 years time. Hopefully I will be around to write a follow up to this then - or to 'speak a reply' to a device which records my words and translates it into text, to be then 'shared' on the internet which will be contained within our bloody contact lenses. It may sound outrageous but that technology is actually being developed as we speak. Some experts believe that in order for humanity to ultimately survive we must embrace cybernetics as the next progressive step in human evolution. Ironically voice-to-text software already exists however, like a great deal of technology available to the consumer today, it works about as efficiantly as Gandalf's 897 year old penis. We can 'send a man to the moon' but we cant get the internet to work on our phones properly? What a sham because lets be honest, its just not possible to whack off to 3 inch pictures that take 6 minutes to load. I remember the phone my grandfather had when I was a young boy. It was shaped like an upside down Christmas pudding bowl, the receiver propped up on four prongs and accompanied by a circular dialling reel system that makes dialling a number feel like you're powering up the warp core in the Starship Enterprise. How did we get to the point, in only a decade, that phones are now small enough to fit into our ears? The dawn of programmable computers in the 1930's began the slow burning fire that raged for nearly 35 years until the first notable explosion of exponential technological growth in the 1970's. The mushroom cloud of this new age flinted out the giant present day, corporate embers such as Apple & IBM for example. The 1990's streamlined computers into a household device. Now we walk around with them in the palm of our hands in the form of tablet computers - thinner than a 60 page pamphlet and with the capability to interact with like minded devices all around it through a virtual storage space nicely named 'cloud'; its seems the technology itself is indeed evolving also. Next up, Skynet and the rise of the machines? Exoskeleton suits of armour that allow a man to lift 200 times the weight of the strongest man, are currently in use; 3D faxing is in development. Shape shifting cars made of lightweight but almost impenetrable fabric is said to be the vehicle of the future. What about the technology of the human brain? On average we only use 10% of our neurological potential; what happens when we finally evolve to use the full power of the ultimate computer that sits protected behind the firewall of bone? Are the Hollywood movies of today really that far off? Is it too much to think that the computer technology of today, which is so advanced, so expensive and so complex, is an actual robot that will be able to think freely and walk and talk and move like a human being? Well, the walking, talking technological equivalent of the 90's is now in almost every household in the world in the form of a laptop or a desktop or tablet computer. We cant live without the technology of today anymore. We are moving forward at a dangerous pace and the next 50 years will encompass evolution of technology that will challenge those even with the most challenging of imaginations in this present day. Which leads me to my next post: Space & Time.
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