{"id":22144,"date":"2011-08-17T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T15:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=22144"},"modified":"2011-08-17T11:27:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T15:27:46","slug":"reflections-on-the-singularity-five-technologies-that-will-change-the-world-and-one-that-wont-gerrold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/08\/17\/reflections-on-the-singularity-five-technologies-that-will-change-the-world-and-one-that-wont-gerrold\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;The Singularity: Five technologies that will change the world (and one that won&#8217;t)&#8221; [Gerrold]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumpc.com\/article\/features\/singularity_five_technologies_will_change_world_and_one_wont\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Singularity: Five technologies that will change the world (and one that won&#8217;t)<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from MaximumPC.com by David Gerrold; originally saw this in Steve Knode&#8217;s July 2011 Newsletter<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Excerpt I want to comment on:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Now, let\u2019s try a thought experiment. If we apply Moore\u2019s law and assume that the rate of scientific advancement doubles at the same rate as the computer power that we apply to research, then we can project that we will likely accomplish a whole 20th century\u2019s worth of scientific advancement in 5 years\u2014by 2015. As the rate continues to double, we\u2019ll accomplish a century\u2019s work in 2.5 years, then 1.25 years, 7.5 months, 3 months and 3 weeks, then a smidge less than two months, one month, two weeks, one week, then 3.5 days, 1.75 days, and if you ignore Zeno\u2019s paradox, by the end of 2020 we will be accomplishing a century\u2019s worth of research every day, and two weeks later, every second. And after that\u2026?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">This is why it is critical that <em><strong>all of us<\/strong><\/em> are tapping into <em><strong>streams of content.<\/strong><\/em> We can&#8217;t be dealing with damned up &#8220;water&#8221; &#8212; but we need to access ever-flowing-streams of content. We need to learn how to learn &#8212; and like learning! We&#8217;ll also need to know how to manage<strong> learning agents<\/strong> in order to sort through the information overload coming at us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16671\" title=\"streams-of-content\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/streams-of-content.jpg\" alt=\"What's the best way to deal with ever-changing streams of content? When information has shrinking half-lives?\" width=\"575\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/streams-of-content.jpg 575w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/streams-of-content-150x75.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also mentioned in the above article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Graphene<\/li>\n<li>Robots<\/li>\n<li>Bio-Fabbing<\/li>\n<li>Universal Smart Tech<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also from Steve Knode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/686302\/10_Technologies_That_Will_Change_the_World_in_the_Next_10_Years\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from CIO.com by Julie Bort<br \/>\n3D printers, sensor networks, virtual humans and other technologies under development now will drastically change our world in the decade to come, according to Cisco chief futurist Dave Evans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Singularity: Five technologies that will change the world (and one that won&#8217;t) &#8212; from MaximumPC.com by David Gerrold; originally saw this in Steve Knode&#8217;s July 2011 Newsletter Excerpt I want to comment on: Now, let\u2019s try a thought experiment. If we apply Moore\u2019s law and assume that the rate of scientific advancement doubles at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,364,210,82,37,17,423,509,166,491],"tags":[582,109,745,677,610,587,596,577,771,801,780,184,795,502],"class_list":["post-22144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d","category-chemistry","category-emerging-technologies","category-engineering","category-future","category-learning-agents","category-love-of-learning","category-near-field-communication-nfc","category-social-learning-networks","category-streams-of-content","tag-3d","tag-blogging","tag-chemistry","tag-emerging-technologies","tag-engineering","tag-future","tag-information-overload","tag-learning-agents","tag-love-of-learning","tag-near-field-communication-nfc","tag-robotics","tag-social-networking","tag-streams-of-content","tag-the-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22144"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22158,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22144\/revisions\/22158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}