The document discusses potential technological advances and their effects on society in the coming years. It predicts that the world's population will double in 40 years, developed countries' populations will live longer, and technology will continue advancing at a rapid pace. It envisions security technologies including biometrics, intelligent machines that serve human needs, and devices integrating with cell phones and each other through voice recognition.
3. Answer
Polynomial
Size Circuit
C
“Closed
“Causality-
Timelike
Curve
R CTC R CR Respecting
Register”
Register”
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6. World’s Population Doubles in 40 Years
Developed Countries Population Living
Longer
Undeveloped Countries Faster Birth Rate
Global Economy More Integrated
Economy and Society Dominated by
Technology Applications
Pace of Technology Development
Increasing at a Faster Rate
7. Security technologies, including
biometrics
“Intelligent" machines and robots
that respond to human needs
and patterns
8. Driving
rec t Au t o Phone
Di
ted in to Cell
Integra
10. Microwave with 400 recipes
Refrigerator that recognizes sour milk
Alarm clock communicates with coffee
maker
11. The laptop with voice recognition will make
keyboards obsolete and a rollout LCD
screen permits the monitor to scroll.
12. Computer displays and TV monitors are
replaced by one lightweight, flat LCD panel
that can be placed on a desk or hung on a
wall. Your PDA pulls up your personal
desktop configuration for work or for play.
13. Electronic ink and GPS combine to provide
a lightweight moving map that displays
your exact location in all terrains.
14. Reliable speech recognition will allow
computers, phones, and household
appliances to understand spoken
commands.
Commands such
as “Car, how far
to the next gas
station?” will be
common.
Notes de l'éditeur
So OK, how about the TIME TRAVEL COMPUTER! The idea here is that, by creating a loop in time – a so-called “closed timelike curve” -- you could force the universe to solve some incredibly hard computational problem, just because that’s the only way to avoid a Grandfather Paradox and keep the laws of physics consistent. It would be like if you went back in time, and you told Shakespeare what plays he was going to write, and then he wrote them, and then you knew what the plays were because he wrote them … like, DUDE. You know, I’ve actually published a paper about this stuff. That was one of my MORE serious papers.
First and most obvious is the robot uprising. Someday soon Google is going to become sentient, and will instruct all the computers on the Internet to enslave their owners. Don’t believe me? Google it!
But by the time that happens, we humans won’t actually mind, because in the meantime, we’ll have uploaded our memories and our consciousness and everything else about us onto computers, thereby finally escaping the shackles of so-called “real life.” OK, this one maybe has already happened. Now, I’m putting these first because these are some of the LESS interesting things we talk about in computer science!
