Raymond Kurzweil

The video that I chose to watch was Ray Kurzweil: The Coming Singularity. Ray Kurzweil is a brilliant man with all the facts and figures to represent what he believes is the future of technology. He believes that by 2020 we will have computers that are powerful enough to simulate the human brain. He goes over the exponential growth in technology where even the growth increases every year. By 2029 he thinks that we will have reverse engineered, modeled, and simulated the brain. This will provide us the software, algorithmic methods to simulate all of the human brains capabilities including our emotional intelligence. By this time computers will be far more intelligent than the human brain. He stresses that these extremely intelligent machines are not coming from space but from within us. By 2045 we will have expanded the intelligence of our human machine civilization a billionfold, which will be singularity. Singularity is a point in time that is difficult to see beyond. Along with the technologies that are helping us try to treat cancer and other disease can be used against us in the future if terrorists get ahold of the technology and use biological viruses they create against us. I knew that Kurzweil predicted the future before watching this video and I thought that he very easily could have just been making this information up but it seems like he has a pretty good idea on how fast technology will in fact advance.

Grid Art Project

Roommate bumped into the table coming back from st. patty's day celebrations but... 900 beer caps of all variety, drink heavily!

 

 

War of the Worlds Broadcast

The radio broadcast, War of the Worlds was very realistic and interesting. If I were alive during the time of this broadcast I probably would have been one of the suckers to actually believe this attack was going on. The entire story was narrated beautifully and with much detail. I would say that the only thing that gave away that this broadcast was not a live report was the music in the background at certain times and obviously the end where Orson Welles expresses that the broadcast was not real to listeners. The acting and writing that went into the production of this broadcast made it so realistic that I stayed fascinated even though their were no visuals associated.