How Long?
The 25 year period following 1990 was characterized by rapid advances in the field of information technology. It was very much like the early days of the railroad.
Every few years a new locomotive was build which was bigger, better and stronger than its predecessors. Only computers developed much faster. Every few months a new computer hit the market that was smaller, stronger and faster. And with it came bigger hard drives, more memory and more powerful new software.
Information that was almost unobtainable previously, is now available with a few mouse clicks, admittedly not always accurate, but available.
How long before odors and tastes too will be digitized? Imagine watching the Grand Prix on TV, getting the smell of burned tires and exhaust fumes in your nostrils.
How long will it be before knowledge will be downloaded directly from the human brain to be saved on a storage device for later use. Think of the advantages if such knowledge (and even experience) could be uploaded to another brain. Need to learn a new language? No problem, just slip in another disc. Schools will become an outdated concept overnight. No longer will an Einstein’s knowledge perish with the brain.
But this is not limited to humans only. What if your new puppy could be uploaded with a complete set of doggie manners? Think of the brand new practice of slavery if baboons could be uploaded with the knowledge to perform useful tasks.
A bit far fetched you may think but maybe not so, considering that as recent as fifty years ago, the marvels that we now accept as the norm in computers were deemed to be impossible.
Something is only impossible until somebody figures out a way how to do it.
May you all have a marvelous day.
Comments (8)
everthing is possible. Skype is amazing just another step from that.
Have good day
I don't think I like this idea.. especially when I think of using Bluetooth to do that.
At the pace things are happening, it may well be in our lifetimes. We don't know what scientists are researching in their labs.
I cannot say that I like it too much either, but I think Bluetooth will be a bit slow. We don't want to wait two years to download the contents of a single brain, do we?
Exactly.
BTW
Are you still playing with that metal detector?
That is where the baboons with the uploaded skill come it. See, all sorted out. Until somebody start moving the masses to object to animal labor.
It would be probably not a good idea to limit what we feel is possible or not. I am sure one day...pigs will actually be able to fly.
...of course, figuratively speaking. :)
You look at what advancements we made in the last 150 or so years and compare that to what we know about human history for the last few thousand years...it is certainly amazing.