Future Technology: To Be or Not To Be: a blog about the future of science and technology.
I’ve been writing this blog since January 2008 on a whim. I’ve learned a lot in the process, changed my mind on a few things, and hopefully become a better writer. It’s been fun; I hope to continue for many years more.
In 2008, when I started this blog, I was an undergraduate student at MIT. In 2009 I graduated and moved to San Francisco to work for a small software company. In 2011 I joined Stripe to work on payments infrastructure. In 2012 I started working part-time on my own software projects again. In 2013 I started graduate school at UC Berkeley, studying computer science. In 2016 I finished my Ph.D., writing a thesis on machine learning and optimization.
This is the internet; there are plenty of ways to contact me if you want to: you can email me (david@futuretechtoobenottoobe.com), tweet at me (@futuretobenot2b), follow me on LinkedIn (David Rolnick), or ping me on Hacker News (drolnick).
What is technology?
Technology is the practical application of science.
Future Technology: To Be or Not To Be: a blog about the future of science and technology.
Future Technology: To Be or Not To Be is a blog about the future of science and technology. It covers topics such as nanotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, medicine, brain-computer interfaces, and more.
Future Technology: To Be or Not To Be.
And I do not mean the question of whether future technology will be developed, but rather what will be its purpose?
In today’s world, we have a lot of different technologies. As they are known as “technologies”, they must have some purpose. A lot of people have already answered this question, so why am I asking again? Well, the answer I see is that these technologies are just secondary products of the main purpose: making money. Our current technologies are built for the sole purpose of making money.
Today when you search for a product or a service in your area and want to know about it, you get a list of companies that offer it along with their addresses and phone numbers. If you need to pay a bill, you can find out where to send it or how to pay it online by searching for the company name or the product name.
Do you think someone will develop a technology for making money? It’s hard to imagine that someone will create such technology since there is no financial benefit in it. However, if such technology was invented and made available, would it change our society?
Can you imagine living in a society where there is no such thing as money? How would your
The future of science and technology is an important topic, but it’s hard to make predictions. As a result, most speculation about the future is dull.
This blog aims to be more interesting. I’m going to assume that the future is not predetermined. So what happens in the future depends partly on what we choose to do now. Then I’m going to try and write about things that may go differently than you’d expect from reading the headlines and conventional wisdom.
If you want to know what will happen, follow my example: think for yourself.
What do you think the world will be like in 2050?
This is a question that many of us have asked ourselves and many of us have different answers to. Even though we can only imagine what the future will be like, there are some things that I believe will happen.
First of all, technology will improve tremendously. At present we have already seen how much technology has evolved since the centuries. Back in the 19th century communication was primitive and slow. Even in the 20th century it took a long time for information to reach from one place to another. Nowadays, with just a click of a button we can get information about any subject we want. The internet is really fast and it is used by people all over the world. Telephones had also become more advanced and accessible as well. We now use mobile phones which are really handy, small in size and convenient for everyone to use. But some people say that mobiles cause many health problems including cancer and brain tumors. So what about in 2050? I think that mobile phones will be replaced by chips implanted into our heads which will enable us to communicate with anyone around the world and even access information like on the internet but faster! We won’t even need computers because everything we need will be inside