Posted on 02/24/2018 7:48:22 AM PST by MNDude
The future of technology is looking for more amazing than ever. Technology will continue to shape our lives in positive and negative ways and will be used by the good in the evil alike.
The thought of self-driving cars seems exciting, but could it come with unforeseen drawbacks? It seems like computers that think like humans are always right around the corner. Will it be here in 10 years?
Which possible future technology are you most excited for, and which do you fear the most?
This world wide web thingy concerns me.
My Gopher program seems buggy.
1. Robots
2. Robots
The new 5G network
You ain’t kidding. I can’t find a damn thing with this WAIS crap. No matter how many times I ask Veronica.
Excites me - driverless cars and full body scans that detect disease including cancer.
Scares me - nothing technologically. Everything has been great so far and I don’t see that changing.
Our debt scares me most!!!!
Possible advances against cancer and other disease excites me - not much scares me except what they might do to the human gene systems - if they can find a way to cure folks using their own bodies, they can come up with a way to kill us all off too.
Can you get UUENCODE/UUDECODE to work? I was able to get some Playboy centerfolds but the downloads from USEnet took FOREVER!
Nanocrystal technology - wireless electricity - is exciting.
I want a 3-D printer.
Excites... Super AI
Scares... Super AI
AI for blondes.
It all excites me, but I really cringe at how big business is going to interact with it’s workers. Constant and real-time monitoring, etc.
Autonomous killer drones
BlondeStar helps for now.
3D printing.
Vertical Farming.
Cheap Clean Energy
Cheap Space Access.
Excites— innovations for excellent purposes
‘Scares’—innovations for evil purposes
PS. Cars that fly and driven/flown by drunk illegals. lol
See the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror on Netflix..
The master algorithm scares me. A generalized program that can learn. There are algorithms that learned to play chess based on the rules and being unfettered by history played chess at a master level using strategies that were not used before. Robots are not the scary thing. It is algorithms that are lawyers doctors, engineers computer programmers.
It is not the driver less car but the coding that is learning how to drive the car that is scary.
There are several strategies being used to develop the algorithm they may all succeed in there own way.
The Chinese are investing in the in a big way.
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