Technology is progressing at an incredible rate; “by 2013 there will be a supercomputer that will be able to do more computing than a human brain”. The question that I have next would be: if there will be a computer capable of doing more than a human brain, does that mean that in the future we could download our thoughts into a computer? Just think how cool that would be, and the possibilities it would bring. Our consciousness could go on forever. And if there was an interface which let video cameras be connected, we would be able to see. It’s all very strange when you think about it but on the other hand, one day it will be reality.

Like previously stated, technology is at a “boom”. First, the internet is expanding at an exponential rate. There are over 200 million users on MySpace, if that were its own country it would be the fifth largest in he world. Second is the raw technological information. Japan has developed a fibre optic cable that can push 14 trillion bits down a single fibre optic cable every second, and when you consider that there can be many more fibre optics in a single undersea cable, it makes you wonder how much information is out there. And finally is discovery. There are university students learning how to do jobs that don’t exist, with technology that doesn’t exist, to solve problems that aren’t problems yet! If we are able to solve all of the problems in the world (hunger for example) and we get every single human being focusing on our technological evolution there is no doubt that one day we will be capable of doing almost anything.


Facts from the video "Did You Know"