Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Future Communication

Dr. Gardner, a professor at Harvard wrote an essay about Literacy coming to an end. He talks about how reading scores are declining and people read less and less each year.
Well i don't think people are reading less, they are just reading different things. Humans are always evolving, its hard to see this since our average live span is only about 70 years or so. If you look back just one hundred years you will notice that people talked a lot different and also wrote different. Go back a couple of thousand of years and people communicated with pictures on walls.

Writing seems to always be evolving, and so does the medium in which write on. I have a theory that its not just the medium that is evolving literacy, but also how we transport our thought to one another. We went from walls, to horseback, to cars, to plans, to the Internet ext. We are always finding faster ways to transfer information. Also, we are finding faster ways to express our information. Things such as recent digital talk like lol and jk are some examples of this.

Well whats next, that's a question that no one can answer and only time will tell. If i were to make a prediction i think within a hundred years we will be able to communicate without using writing or words at all, i think we we will be able to communicate with our minds. You may think this is far fetch, but i actually think we will far pass that. If you put your self in someones shoes from the 1800's or even the early 1900's and you tried to imagine the future, you would have not have foreseen this world we live in today, with hi-tech digital communications. Your mind wouldn't even be able to fathom this, it would have not been possible for you to even imagine it. In the future i think we we will communicate in a way that is not even possible for any of our unevolved minds to even imagine.

p.s. off the subject. I also believe that humans evolve exponentially and things are going to start evolving even faster. One think that concerns me is that machines are beginning to be equipped with artificially intelligence and are starting to be able to think on their own. This is not good if we want to stay the dominate specie on earth. Machines are already building other machines and at the rate computers have been evolving, they could be a serious threat to mankind in the near future. (that's if global warming, or 2012 doesn't wipe us out first.)

1 comment:

  1. So you think things are headed the "Terminator" route? You never know. Maybe we should examine the ethics involved with technological innovation. We should slow down a bit and think about the consequences of trying to make machines faster, smarter, and stronger.

    ReplyDelete