The future of technology

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The future of technology?

Watch the movie "Idiocracy". We're already halfway there...

Aspies are the only hope for this planet.

Technology and physical science has a better future than religion and politics.

ruveyn

We have to be careful that technology does not become a tool to control people, namely microchipping.

Well said.
I agree.

It is too late, friend. Research surveillance technologies and Google '30 000 drones'. Research the Singularity. The mega-trends cannot be denied. Take care.

I'd hate to be the sysadmin.



Not having your own copy of something means you cannot control when the source you depend on gets deleted. Imagine a central image server going down, and seeing this wherever you go:



I'm a P2P junkie, and I'm more inclined to pay for products that just ask me to pay once and then leave me alone. After seeing operant behaviorism applied in MMO video games and the like, I'm suspecting artificial loyalty is going to become a bigger craze.



What about production methods? Trade secrets are a big thing to consider here.

I keep thinking that things are getting more complex than getting easier, I mean before all of this, we all lived in trees, surviving off the land, what do you all think?

Google has upped there game and now offering more cloud space

Google Cloud

Why do so many of you guys fixate on computer technology. The main game in technology is now in biological applications and energy.

ruveyn

Technology will include many areas from cloud to energy, I think as we get better with technology we will be able to monitor energy and monitor peoples health more efficiently, I also think the cloud will play a big part in all of this.

We know that the industries want to stamp out piracy, so they will minimal software that will connect directly to the cloud and streaming will be the norm.

I think the idea is that we will have to learn to manage our energy consumption and I think that smart meters will become the norm with energy providers able to connect to them and monitor usage.

I am a bit ignorant about biological technology can someone enlighten me.

I think that it maybe would be possible to connect a brain with a computer in the future.
(I don't know if this would be bad or good.)
Or to save the hole brain in a computer.
(But for that our computer technology isn't developed enough, and a hole brain would consume very much disk space)

Agreed. This is where Google went wrong with the Chrome Book, people actually really need local storage even if the contents are just indexed as a mirror of some remote server (at some version).

A lot of other, better ideas went into Chrome OS.

We are Biological, so is what we eat, wear, where we live, and indirectly at present, where our energy comes from. Sunlight falling on the lawn powers a system that could feed us, and if better understood, power our homes.

The Chinese got it down where eleven people could survive on a half acre.

About 2,000 sq ft per person, can provide food, clothing, shelter, energy, if we just knew a bit more about the basic engine that drives all life.

What the lawn does biologically, would be near the surface of the sun heat chemicaly, yet the grass stays cool. If we could reverse some of these, we could tap into new energy.

Like Nitrogen, which is high energy for us to fix, but plants just do it, but we also can unfix Nitrogen with a boom. Lumens become electrons, which form chemical bonds,which can be reversed freeing electrons.

People who study these systems are called farmers. The basic electro chemical engine that drives all life is neglected by science.

Worse, because it is beneath them, science has come up with ways of evading nature, which is destroying the natural soils, spreading into the water, getting a short term crop at the expense of the long term vitality.

Life in the soil is more complex than life above it, yet we know next to nothing about it. Darwin and Tesla both wrote of how they were amazed at this magic of topsoil.

From just a few studies, soil bacteria, many species living together, have a weight of one pound per square foot, and a life of less than a day. This constant turnover is what fuels plants. We eat the fruiting bodies or seeds, which are only a small part of the cycle.

We could be eating the bacteria, which has a 40,000 pound per acre per day turnover. Compared, a heavy bearing crop, cabbage, might produce 80,000 pounds per acre over several months. The bacteria are more like meat.

Organic farming has found that there seems no limit to how vigorous soil bacteria can become. the cycle can be doubled and doubled again, just by supplying the raw materials, tillage, water,that allow it to thrive.

A quarter million pounds of bacteria per acre seems possible. Mostly part of the Nitrogen Cycle, Bacterical meat.

So the whole cycle leads to plants which animals eat to form meat, a wasteful process compared to harvesting the bacteria as a direct food source.

Good old farmers can tell the quality of a soil by smelling and eating it.

The same bacteria are used to break down wastes, oil, by dumping in some and seeing who survives, then growing more. It is not one bacteria, thousands of species live together in an interactive colony. Worms eat dirt for the bacteria, and are found where the colonies are rich. Worms are a richer food than meat.

Down at the atom level, bacteria are used in the waste water from atomic plants, who capture the atoms of radioactive materials, and dying, deposit them where they can be recovered.

10% of what goes in gas tanks was made by Yeast. Brazil fuels the country on Yeast and sugar cane waste. Other bacteria turn pig wastes into Methane, so the whole oil drilling economy is not needed.

Cells made of sheets of bacteria on a mat, hung in a water and food bath, produce an electric charge just like other batteries.

While they are at it they also produce feed stock for chemical processes, and a fairly clean product at that.

Being the natural food supply of worms, who Darwin claimed might be immortal, in his book on The Formation of Vegatable Mold. Worm castings, top soil, he credits them with being the greatest soil improvers, and some worms grow to three foot.

If we put some effort into the natural process that produced us and everything, it can make the richest soil, and meet all our needs for food, energy, fuels, chemicals, without stripping the earth.

Poor soil leads to drought, warming, but rich soil holds water, stays cooler, and can support lush plant life that absorbs CO2.

Soils are the most powerful engine on the planet.

WOT

Well smartphones have enough storage to hold data while out and about, I think I have to agree with most people views about storing data. I like the cloud concept but until we have better services, I rather keep my data local.

I see the concept about getting to grips with biological technology, we need to be able to sustain the growing population.