Where do you think technology is going?

2010-04-01 12:38:27

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Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6047|Catherine Black

Eventually technology will be limited by the human body. Look at colours - today we use 24 bit which is 16,777,216 different colours, because the human eye can't determine a difference between any more. We could easily do 30, 36 and 48 bits, and we do, but they're not in popular usage, as nobody would notice.

120 Hz will be the fastest refresh rate that will be publicly taken in, aside from gimmicky 500Hz TVs, because it is very difficult to notice a higher refresh rate than that. Just look at 60Hz, which is probably the most popular refresh rate across the world, and nobody notices individual pictures.

Things like storage space will always increase, and speed will always increase with it, but anything that interacts with the human, IE, mice, for DPI, monitor, for colours/hertz, and sound systems, for sound quality, will come to a limit, because we will simply be unable to determine the difference in any progress.

What do you think?

2010-04-01 12:45:19

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Miggle: FUCK UBISOFT; +1,411|7000|FUCK UBISOFT

mechanical implants will improve people. problem solved.

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2010-04-01 12:51:42

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Ilocano: buuuurrrrrrppppp.......; +341|6926

DNA re-engineering, gene manipulation, nanotech, etc.

2010-04-01 12:52:28

#4

bugz: Fission Mailed; +3,311|6571

As long as technology keeps improving, there will be people willing to believe and pay for what they think is the "best".

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2010-04-01 13:00:49

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NooBesT: Pizzahitler; +873|6727

I think you're wrong. Why?

Finray wrote:
Things like storage space will always increase, and speed will always increase with it

Because that's false.

2010-04-01 13:10:15

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2010-04-01 13:11:13

#7

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6047|Catherine Black

NooBesT wrote:
I think you're wrong. Why?

Finray wrote:
Things like storage space will always increase, and speed will always increase with it
Because that's false.

Why is that false?

2010-04-01 13:27:28

#8

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,979|6890|949

Read

The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Law of Accelerating Returns
go here http://www.kurzweilai.net/

Research the idea of technological singularity. We could be mostly machine in a few decades if you subscribe to Mr. Kurzweil's blueprint. But make no mistake, we will eventually meld man and machine. It's just a matter of when. And of course there are a few philosophical questions regarding what constitutes a human when 80% of the physical person is made up of electrical components but there are definitely some interesting debates on that as well.

2010-04-01 13:34:53

#9

Ilocano: buuuurrrrrrppppp.......; +341|6926

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
Read

The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Law of Accelerating Returns
go here http://www.kurzweilai.net/

Research the idea of technological singularity. We could be mostly machine in a few decades if you subscribe to Mr. Kurzweil's blueprint. But make no mistake, we will eventually meld man and machine. It's just a matter of when. And of course there are a few philosophical questions regarding what constitutes a human when 80% of the physical person is made up of electrical components but there are definitely some interesting debates on that as well.

And then, what happens at "Ghost in the Machine" stage? Can consciousness truly be transferred. Or do you actually die, and only the advanced AI is copied over?

2010-04-01 13:37:38

#10

NooBesT: Pizzahitler; +873|6727

Finray wrote:
NooBesT wrote:
I think you're wrong. Why?

Finray wrote:
Things like storage space will always increase, and speed will always increase with it
Because that's false.
Why is that false?

Because physics.

2010-04-01 13:42:36

#11

Miggle: FUCK UBISOFT; +1,411|7000|FUCK UBISOFT

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2010-04-01 13:54:57

#12

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,979|6890|949

Ilocano wrote:
KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
Read

The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Law of Accelerating Returns
go here http://www.kurzweilai.net/

Research the idea of technological singularity. We could be mostly machine in a few decades if you subscribe to Mr. Kurzweil's blueprint. But make no mistake, we will eventually meld man and machine. It's just a matter of when. And of course there are a few philosophical questions regarding what constitutes a human when 80% of the physical person is made up of electrical components but there are definitely some interesting debates on that as well.
And then, what happens at "Ghost in the Machine" stage? Can consciousness truly be transferred. Or do you actually die, and only the advanced AI is copied over?

Exactly. What if eventually our consciousnesses are interconnected like in Aliens and each generation inherits the collective minds of the previous one? I've read some debates and forums on these things by a lot of leading AI minds and it's all incredibly interesting...it gives a whole new level to the idea of transcendence and enlightenment...truly amazing stuff!

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