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It seems logical to me, the sum of all human knowledge accessible like an enhanced memory function.
This will be available in 10 to 20 years?
Plug me in already! Right in the neck, yeah. For my first upgrade, I would like a bionic eyeball with included night vision and holographic overlay capabilities. It needs to have extended zoom function, and infra-red motion sensing built in too. I want the extended warranty for it as well.
For my second upgrade, I would like the fastest hard-drive brain chip available. It needs to have at least 1000000 terabytes of storage capacity, and very low failure rates.
I think I would also like an orgasm button on my forehead as well, that way anytime I have a facepalm moment, it will be extremely rewarding.
I'm one of those paranoid people. I wouldn't want something, the idea ofit being some way to control me and my thoughts is something I won't gamble.
My thoughts exactly. But I prefer to call myself "Retro" rather than paranoid. It's chic! ;)
Hmm makes me think about that twice because I thought that as well... can't decide what I'd do -.-
Yes, and no. What will actually happen is that the interface between humans and "helper" devices will continue to blur.
The next big innovation will be Gorilla Glass held as a see-through panel (like a transparent iPad). If you haven't seen Gorilla Glass, check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkHpNnXLB0&feature=youtu.be
In ten year's time, many of us will have a sheet of Gorilla Glass which will act as an interface between not just our devices and ourselves, but our environments too.
Hold your pane of glass up to the night sky and it will (like a mobile head-up display) annotate the names of the stars. Push your finger to the name of a star and it will give you further details, pictures, etc. Hold your Gorilla Glass up to a street and it will give you directions to where you want to go, like a SatNav with details of buildings or overlays of floor plans and room numbers.
Soon after, Gorilla Glass will be built into head-sets (like sunglasses), giving you a permanent head-up display. Sensors will judge the angle of your head to annotate what you are looking at. The targetting technology in fighter planes which tracks what the pilot's eyeball is looking at will increase the accuracy of these devices. You will use your eyes as you currently use your fingers on an iPhone. Onscreen keyboards, etc., will allow you to use Google. Ten years after that, it may be developed as a contact lens using body heat to power it.
At this point, you still have a regular computer. Its output interface is a head-up display (rather than monitor) and input interface is eye-operated rather than hand-operated. But it's still a homologue of the first PCs.
The crucial next step (this won't happen in ten years) is creating an interface that works on a more human level. At the moment, we use electrical devices (mice, screens, keyboards). These are very much the domain of computers and we use them the way the computer understands.
Eliminating these means letting the computer interact with us in a way we understand. The output device isn't a problem. A HUD is fine. The input device is the key. It should understand thought. So, you think, "Computer: State capital of South Dakota" and up flashes "Pierre".
There are primitive examples of computers reading thought (mobility scooters for the severely physically disabled) but they are primitive indeed. They can only differentiate two or three "thought" words. Advances in neuroscience will continue to improve the situation but for a computer interface to understand you thinking "South Dakota"? It's a long way away.
Unless there's a giant, earth-shattering breakthrough in neuroscience, we won't see this in our lifetime. What we will see is less obstructive interfaces.
I serve on an advisory group for mobile computing (something I have always been interested in) and it's part of my role to predict the future so that we can put infrastructure in place and stay competitive. The above isn't me just giving a casual opinion. This is the result of the research we stake our business on. This genuinely is the next ten years. That's how it'll look.
So I am correct we will have the sum of all human knowledge available to us, augmented memory access within the next 10 to 20 years? However the interface ends up.
We are lucky to be living in these times,
Wow, that's fantastic sounding! I have a few points that I would like to bring up/discuss, but they'll have to wait until later I suppose because I'm at my school right now hehe :P
How awesome that you shared this! I almost didn't follow the link for I'd seen the first one about a year ago (and loved it, can't wait for a day like that!!) and thought it was it.
AND it's called Gorilla, my favorite endangered species! Awww. :)
But there are two things bothering me about this second one. Those kids in school are so obedient... I don't buy it. I've taught that age group and they're not that well behaved. Hehe. And, at the hospital, are they implying the oriental man can read mirrored English because of Asian languages, or what? :P
In all honesty, I dislike what technology does to people. Can't we just be happy with what we have? Guess not. If I'm ever alive to witness the day that we, as humans, can become machines, I will seriously contemplate suicide.
I don't know how much computer wiring I want going into my brain. As with every software there is a chance of corruption, and with every hardware there is a chance of failure!
Sounds crazy awesome! But I'd still be hesitant like the rest.
Shackleford you made me bust up laughing!