I think we will continue to use it but use it to control remote objects. But eventually the digital age will end and we'll have something entirely different what do you think?
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I don't think you can eliminate the concept of "digital" from a computer without eliminating the computer. Analog would involve a more "fuzzy" logic that is unpredictable, more like how our brains work. I'm thinking a sort of merging between mind and machine, with neural connection and feedback. Some science fiction has included personal computers that you didn't carry around per se, but grown in your brain instead using nano-fibers. It would be a wireless WWW with our own minds being the interface. I wonder then, will some people with older systems become obsolete in society?
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The pace of technological improvement and innovation within the computer and communications realms is so fast that it is almost impossible to envisage what the not-so-distant future will bring.
I doubt whether anyone foresaw the invention of the internet back in the glory days of wireless (1930s). As usual none of the sci-fi writers saw it coming either, as they seemed to be obsessed with a future dominated by atomic energy and spaceships.
Similarly, I doubt if anyone today can correctly foresee what the internet will eventually be supplanted by, or what it will become. I would suggest the following guidelines:
1) The existing internet will be subsumed into a far more eficient communications method due to the need to convey information at many orders of magnitude greater than what we do today. This need will be driven by the arrival of totally immersive artificial realities, and the development of artificial intelligence.
2) When it becomes possible to simulate (exactly) the thought processes of the mammalian brain (including the human brain), intelligence will become fluid and will no longer be localised to a biological brain. It will be able to flow from place to place and reside anywhere it decides. This is because "intelligence" is merely a collection of data and the rules needed for it's processing. With sufficient bandwidth, this intelligence can be transmitted to anywhere it desires as long as the communications infrastructure is capable of such transmission.
3) The "digital age" will one day be seen as an anachronism, as the distinction between digital and analogue blurs. Perhaps that is already happening today, since every time you look at a picture that you have downloaded, or listen to music that you have loaded, the experience is analogue. There is no perception of the underlying digitisation.
Cheers!
I doubt whether anyone foresaw the invention of the internet back in the glory days of wireless (1930s). As usual none of the sci-fi writers saw it coming either, as they seemed to be obsessed with a future dominated by atomic energy and spaceships.
Similarly, I doubt if anyone today can correctly foresee what the internet will eventually be supplanted by, or what it will become. I would suggest the following guidelines:
1) The existing internet will be subsumed into a far more eficient communications method due to the need to convey information at many orders of magnitude greater than what we do today. This need will be driven by the arrival of totally immersive artificial realities, and the development of artificial intelligence.
2) When it becomes possible to simulate (exactly) the thought processes of the mammalian brain (including the human brain), intelligence will become fluid and will no longer be localised to a biological brain. It will be able to flow from place to place and reside anywhere it decides. This is because "intelligence" is merely a collection of data and the rules needed for it's processing. With sufficient bandwidth, this intelligence can be transmitted to anywhere it desires as long as the communications infrastructure is capable of such transmission.
3) The "digital age" will one day be seen as an anachronism, as the distinction between digital and analogue blurs. Perhaps that is already happening today, since every time you look at a picture that you have downloaded, or listen to music that you have loaded, the experience is analogue. There is no perception of the underlying digitisation.
Cheers!
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I think its going to grow and become more a part of us. I can see my grandchildren having technology implanted in their brains to give them a level of connectivity that I really can barely imagine.
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It will evolve into XXX.
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we already can use it to remote control things