Comparison Essay: Future of Computers and Humanity.
What does the future have in store for the human race? The question cannot be accurately answered because it would be impossible to describe precisely what hasn't actually occurred in time. Using facts from the past and making a logical decision based on them is the closest we come to an accurate prediction of the future. "Robot Renaissance" by Danylo Hawaleshka and "The Lonely Planet" by John Ibbitson contain predictions of the future world we could live in. While they both seem to forecast a different aspect of the future, Danylo focusing on robotics and the future of electronics and Johns comparison of the human population and social patterns, there is a similarity between the two topics that could link them and form another prediction that has scared some and excites others. Will there be a decline in human life and a rise in the humanoid, a robotic version of us, and what will occur if this happens?.
Computers started a new age when they first began to make an impact on society, even the arrival of the simple calculator, the Z1, which was built in Germany around 1931 by Konrad Zuse had the potential to change the world. (Anne Arbor, 1) The computer was mans artificial mind, although at the time and even presently computers do not have the power equal to the human brain. Most experts agree that with the rapidly advancing market and demand for technology, it should not be too far in the future, that computers will and can exceed the mind. "Kanade is confident that, whatever it looks like, scientists" creations will in effect outdo human evolution within a generation. "Why not?" he asks, pointing out that computers evolve much fast than humans because of their ability to copy data. "A child born today has to start almost from zero," says Kanade, "but machines can download-copy. And copying is one of the most powerful forms of learning.
