Week 9: Clear on Kaku's view on the future of technology

I absolutely loved and am fascinated with Dr. Michio Kaku's take on the future of technology. He really put things into perspective and shined a new light on how the influence of technology could and will impact how the human race lives in the future.

The main reason why I loved Dr. Kaku's take on the future of technology is because he made his predictions based on science, not just theory. Science is concrete. It's not just an estimate or a guess -- it's real.

Dr. Kaku, a theoretical physicist, said that Moore's Law has been in operation in our society for the last 100 years, but it is destined to come to a halt because it cannot last forever because silicon chips become unstable at a molecular level. The question is: when will this halt occur? The answer is unknown, but Kaku says that the danger zone is now.

One of the crazier things Kaku discussed was the comparison of computer intelligence to the intelligence of animals. Right now, according to Kaku, computers are as smart as rats, but by the end of the century, they could possibly be as smart as monkeys, which is highly dangerous because then they can think on their own. That is nuts. His analogies kind of reminded me of the movie iRobot, where the robots become so smart that they begin to out think humans.


Dr. Kaku has a lot of awesome ideas and he explains them all in such a way that it's very thoroughly explained, but very easily understandable. Check out some of his ideas via video on this website: http://bigthink.com/michiokaku.

Photo1 - Dr. Michio Kaku - Public Domain: http://www.londonspeakerbureau.in/Michio_Kaku.aspx
Photo 2 - iRobot -  - Public Domain: http://memebox.com/futureblogger/show/1391