Vodstok
08-26-2008, 07:54 AM
I think i may have made a thread like this a while back, but i figured it could use a new beginning if i did.
What do you think of/hope for from technology? Technology has been both celebrated and hated since the industrial revolution. While it is responsible for a lot of what is wrong today (our dependency on oil, some really frightening weapons, etc), I think it will eventually come full circle and bring things in harmony with the worl around us. Here is my thought, without the pollution and environmental damage of the past 200 years, we would not have advanced to where we are in all forms of technology, and as a direct result, the philosophy in general governing the creation of new technologies has been to make things more "green", environmentally friendly. So in the next century, a lot of the damage that has been done will most likely be undone or healed.
Its been said before, we are a minor inconvenience on the very surface of this planet, to think we will be remembered in a million years is arrogant, we just arent that important. We dont need to clean things up for the "world", we need to do it for OUR survival, not the world's. Species will become extinct, that is the way things work. We are responsible for several extinctions, and that is sad, but we just sped up the inevitable in those cases. Rarely has a healthy population been eradicated through mankind's efforts, although it has happened.
Pontificating aside, i think most modern and future technology is exciting and I want to knwo what areas you all find interesting and what your hopes are for them.
Personally, I am stoked for things like wind farms and tidal power. Inexhaustable energy will make life much easier and less expensive.
ANother technology i saw mentioned a few years back was "spray on" tvs. Some clever people made what are essentially nano-leds that can be held in a solution and sprayed on a surface, and when they attach a little receptical to the surface, it worked just like an lcd screen on a computer. They also have paper-thin screens which look like the GPS computer thingies they had in Red Planet.
A lot fo the writing i have done has been sci-fi because i love the thought of what could be accomplished in the future with a little imagination.
What do you think of/hope for from technology? Technology has been both celebrated and hated since the industrial revolution. While it is responsible for a lot of what is wrong today (our dependency on oil, some really frightening weapons, etc), I think it will eventually come full circle and bring things in harmony with the worl around us. Here is my thought, without the pollution and environmental damage of the past 200 years, we would not have advanced to where we are in all forms of technology, and as a direct result, the philosophy in general governing the creation of new technologies has been to make things more "green", environmentally friendly. So in the next century, a lot of the damage that has been done will most likely be undone or healed.
Its been said before, we are a minor inconvenience on the very surface of this planet, to think we will be remembered in a million years is arrogant, we just arent that important. We dont need to clean things up for the "world", we need to do it for OUR survival, not the world's. Species will become extinct, that is the way things work. We are responsible for several extinctions, and that is sad, but we just sped up the inevitable in those cases. Rarely has a healthy population been eradicated through mankind's efforts, although it has happened.
Pontificating aside, i think most modern and future technology is exciting and I want to knwo what areas you all find interesting and what your hopes are for them.
Personally, I am stoked for things like wind farms and tidal power. Inexhaustable energy will make life much easier and less expensive.
ANother technology i saw mentioned a few years back was "spray on" tvs. Some clever people made what are essentially nano-leds that can be held in a solution and sprayed on a surface, and when they attach a little receptical to the surface, it worked just like an lcd screen on a computer. They also have paper-thin screens which look like the GPS computer thingies they had in Red Planet.
A lot fo the writing i have done has been sci-fi because i love the thought of what could be accomplished in the future with a little imagination.