Carmen Janet Gomez
Team 501-05 "The Planeteers"
Individual Graded Assignment No. I-2
Creativity Journal Profile (CJP)
Due Date: Tuesday, 07Dec. '10

"An Aggie does not lie, cheat, or steal or tolerate those who do"

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Singularity-Accelerating Futures Notes

 Guest lecturer: Professor Rodney Hill
For companies to be successful many companies believe in a reward system that allows individual employees to succeed and push themselves.
Overview of presentation:
In the past humanity has only undergone through three waves of change, the future has in store many changes. 
Examples:
  • Technology has changed everything shopping to interacting with people.
  • The new CEO of microsoft has a new pet project in which he wears a camera on his clothes and records pictures every 60 minutes, and so every time he meets someone new he can recall his past conversations
  • In five years every ultrasound machine will have the ability to view the image in 3D
  • By 2020, the genetic revolution will undergo through a new revolution
  • In the future all of the things that were claimed as "impossible" will become reality
  • Caltech specialized nano-particle to deliver  type pf gene-silencing RNA to cancer cells in human subjects
  • There is huge possibility my generation will live up to 100 years, and our children will live to be 120, the only problem will be that there will be no social security money
  • The Chinese one child plan is to be canceled because of a lack of women, today the the ratio of men to women is absurd and a majority of the men will not be able to reproduce which will lead to a decrease in the work field
  • What about virtual classrooms?
  • In the long run, it may be possible to eliminate retirement
  • Will you need to buy a birthday card for your clone?
Possible Assignment:
  • How might your occupation morph by 2030
  • What could be invented that might eliminate your domain?

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