iMedia: The Future

I found this video on youtube thinking it was going to be another one of those unrealistic time travel videos. The video takes you through, year by year, from 2007 all the way to 2099. This short clip shows the progression and development of man-made technology from just a few years ago all the way into the future. In 2007, people were just starting to go digital and use particle accelerators. As the years progress, technological production becomes increasingly complex and advanced, far beyond the capability of any human. While I was watching the clip, I came to realize that our future world will be centered around technology.



It's hard to imagine a world where computers will be able to create their own programs and software, or where we send a manned mission to Mars, or even create multi-celled organisms in a petri dish. But we need to be able to get our minds around the idea that many of these things can and will happen in our lifetime. Although many of these seemingly impossible technological feats are only in the brainstorming and drawing board stages, I realized that technology is the way of the future. Without it, we cannot survive. I found it very interesting that in the video, one of the possible inventions for the future was a robot that had all the capabilities of human beings, including the mental capacity. One of the slides in the video states "Significant knowledge is being created by machines with little or no human intervention." Doesn't that scare you? It makes me a little uneasy to know that humans will become inferior to machines. It's like humans won't even have a place in the world, instead, robots and computers will do everything for us.



I also found it interesting how one slide said, "There is almost no human employment in production, agriculture, or transportation." It's hard to imagine, but sadly, it's probably true. Once robots and other machines gain human functions, they will be able to do everything we can, if not better. I can't imagine living in a world where my next-door neighbor is a robot, or where I drive a hover car to work. The rate at which technology is changing boggles my mind. The age of technology is fast approaching, and it's impossible to know what the future of mankind will be. Perhaps one day, we will truly live in the Matrix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1KEFgD6Dtg