• Question: how advanced will technology get

    Asked by pepsicola to Arthur, Clare, Daniel, David, Tora on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Clare Harding

      Clare Harding answered on 19 Nov 2014:


      Thats a great question, I have no idea!

      But advances in technology are often seen in science fiction first so I am hoping to see proper artificial intelligence in my life. And in my dreams, I would love that humanity could create ring worlds, these would be huge rings, orbiting a sun at about the same distance the earth is now and people could live on the inner surface.

      This is completely impossible just now (for a start, we would probably have to demolish a few solar systems to get enough material!) but maybe one day, in the far far future.

      What would you like to be invented?

    • Photo: David Wilson

      David Wilson answered on 19 Nov 2014:


      Have you heard of Moores Law? It says that computers get twice as powerful for the same size or cost every eighteen months or so. That’s why a smart phone now is a thousand times more powerful, a thousand times smaller, and a million times cheaper than a supercomputer from the 60s!
      If this relationship carries on, then the computers and technology we’ll have in just a few decades time will be unimaginably good compared with what we have today.

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