The Did you Know? video on the progression of information technology, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman is another eye-opener for all the 11 million people who watched it; and that’s only on Youtube.
Again, the video was is presentation of trends of what is happening around us. Information generation is so fast that a lot of us do not realize the changes in our environment. I remember Sir Ken Robinson’s lecture on humanity’s creativity. Our capacity for innovation is extreme. We have no idea of what’s going to happen. Our social practices haven’t figured out how to keep up with technology.
This also applies to organizations. Not everyone could keep up with innovation. You might be using a Windows 7 and you feel that you’re updated. The next day, it changes and you’re already outdated. We never know what might happen next. What if this video would be outdated tomorrow? Then the truth would make everything seem like a lie.
Organizations are forced to put up a website because it is now the number one source of information. Libraries and books will be extinct soon. I will not be surprised if computers will be aware of their existence and conquer the Earth. If we reproduce in 9 months, computers and machines would reproduce in 3 seconds. They would conclude that the Earth no longer needs the services of humans. They will annihilate us and make an entirely new planet in just a day; defeating God who made the Earth in 6 days.
In 15 years, if the world no longer uses silicon-based microchips in computers and relies on a combination of the new technologies in the article, what I fear the most would come true: computers will be the new “human race”. Our work force will decrease; people will lose their jobs; humans will become lazier than they already are. And the time when man is no longer needed will come. Like in Wall-E, because the computer does everything for them, they just sit back, relax, and enjoy being obese.
If this new technology could compute within seconds and solve problems in an instant, why do we still need to produce scientists, doctors or engineers? We could have only a few experts to maintain this new technology and lessen our spending on creating jobs for people. Maybe we could also solve the problem on overpopulation. Or maybe we could create a main controlling system that would run the country (remember Eagle Eye?). Then, human intervention is no longer required.
If this continues, we will be eating breakfast out of tubes and going to work in hovering taxis. Our day to day activities will be so affected that we need to change our lifestyle. Even organizations will find it hard to cope with new technology. If they can’t afford the latest, they will disappear from the corporate world.
Human imagination has no limits. With the right research and reasonable budget, we could make this happen and make it work. However, these dreams may be too much for the world to handle.
I leave you with a statement by Stephen Hawking, who is an icon in the scientific would. He asked, “Why do we think we know better?”
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. Retrieved August 24, 2010 from: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html.
Future directions in computing. Retrieved August 24, 2010 from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7085019.stm.
Did You Know? Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
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