Buch, Englisch, 109 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Synthesis Lectures on Emerging Engineering Technologies
Buch, Englisch, 109 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Synthesis Lectures on Emerging Engineering Technologies
ISBN: 978-1-62705-856-8
Verlag: MORGAN & CLAYPOOL
This book therefore focuses on the potential impact of those technologies, but it is not intended as a technical manuscript. In this book, we consider our progress and current position on arbitrary popular concepts of future scenarios rather than the typical measurements of cycles per second or milliwatts. We compare our current human cultural situation to other past historic events as we anticipate the future social impact of rapidly accelerating technologies.
We also rely on measurements based on specific events highlighting the breadth of the impact of accelerating semiconductor technologies rather than the specific rate of advance of any particular semiconductor technology.
These measurements certainly lack the mathematic precision and repeatability to which technologists are accustomed, but the material that we are dealing with—the social objectives and future political structures of humanity—does not permit a high degree of mathematic accuracy.
Our conclusion draws from the concept of Singularity. It seems certain that at the rate at which our technologies are advancing, we will exceed the ability of our post?Industrial Revolution structures to absorb these new challenges, and we cannot accurately anticipate what those future social structures will resemble.