In The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, Ray Kurzweil foretells a future where intelligent machines outnumber carbon-based life forms by the year 2099. While some of his claims may seem fantastic, Kruzwiel's credentials are impeccable, and many of his pr...

Has technology opened a Pandora's box of social alienation, or alternatively, is it bringing humans into a new era of prosperity and well being? I n the modern world technology is all around. Automobiles, computers, nuclear power, spacecraft, and X-ray cameras are all examples of t...

We Are the Future In an age where the phrase "You've got mail" is second nature and the infinite stretches of knowledge on the information highway are only a click away, we have to stop to think. What are we doing? Where are we going? If there are problems, how do we solv...

People always tend to seek the easy way out looking for something that would make their lives easier. Computers have given us the ability to do more in less time giving us, at the same time, more comfort. Computer technology is used everywhere from businesses to homes. Programmers and technologists ...

Technology is a wonderful thing, because there are so many ways we can put it to use. We can use it destructively or let it do our dirty work. In the last century we put our technology into computers. They have been a great use to us in terms of finding information, communicating, writing, drawing...

The Age of Spiritual Machines presents a history of computers, looking at how past trends in computing have led to today's personal machines. Author Ray Kurzweil then goes beyond history to look towards the future. Most audiences are familiar with the notion that computers will one day thi...

The term transparent computing sounds like a term from an alien language to most of us in today's society I am sure. People best understand communication as a two-way street. But really if you think about it, a four lane interstate would be closer to the truth. Humans communicate in a v...

Kent Fillmore BGMT302 May 01, 2001:15:35:00 The Impact of the Information Age on Society Introduction: I have, since my earliest memories, been fascinated by the rapid advancements in science and technology. I have seen, in the course of the last 40+ years, our ability to affect the world aroun...

Paradox Scientists and the rest of the human race is finally beginning to realize that it has a tendency to try to destroy itself. Scientists are discovering that many of it's creations can and have caused the deaths of many individuals. Studies have shown that many mechanisms and improved mater...

Businesses producing similar products are said to be "fighting for the consumer's dollar", and this healthy competition, referred to as effective competition, allows consumers the convenience to choose from a variety of similar products at the lowest possible cost. However, as compet...

The Soul of the New Machine Over the last two decades, a technological revolution has occurred as computers have become essential to our society. The rapid development of computer technologies has brought people infinite convenience and a higher standard of living. However, increasing numbers of ...

The belief that humankind is going to, inevitably, reach a dramatic decline is present among many young thinkers today, and even more so seen in the older generations. It is obvious that societies, globally, can't seem to reach out to the next generation. There are many problems present that ...

The science of practical and industrial arts is defined by the term technology. Harlan Ellison illustrates this in "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" that an anti-technology viewpoint of machines can be used as the controlling force of the future. "The Machine Stops" by Edward...

Artificial Intelligence and Singularity Within the next thirty to fifty years, there will be technological means on earth which can create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after this occurrence, humans will no longer be needed to run the world and therefore the human era will be extinct. The ques...

In "The Intimate Machine," Neil Frude introduces the idea of using a computer as a companion instead of a tool. Throughout the story, he explains that the computer makers need to begin building computers that are "softened" and "humanized." Frude believes that by givi...

In the Dalai Lama's speech, " The Human Approach to World Peace", there were views on modern day technology and scientific advances and the effects science and technology have on has on morals and values. It seems as if science is the cause of a large amount of cruelty and immorality...

Technology On The Rise We live in a world of industrialization. Things are changing by the second and humanity is learning to adapt and keep up with the times. There have been so many remarkable advances that have made society stronger and more knowledgeable. There have also been advances that...

Inroduction Since the dawn of human existence technology has surpassed its self hundreds of thousand of times. This actually is the main reason of our evolution as humans upon earth. However the major technological breakthroughs of the twentieth century are considered by some as a boomerang ...

2001: A Space Odyssey Africa 4 million b.c., near sleeping apes. Kubric dosent seem to explain, but it might represent a challenge. Fear, curisoty, courage- those lead to the apes revolutionary invention-the tool. It then dissolves into the future, man is losing controll of his tools ...

Progress It started with pureness, then became sin. It didn't matter to people, they didn't follow. Ignorance, immorality, we just got worse. Until, one day He made a rainbow. It started all over again. Now people had to care. If they kept up their bad habits, they knew their futur...

To Build A Fire by Jack London Has it ever crossed your mind how birds complete their migration south every year without a single wrong turn, or how a cat always manages to find his way home without one misstep? We as man do not use our instincts to reach our destination, instead turning to comput...

The Future of Cloning Cloning humans has recently become a possibility that seems much more feasible in today's society than it was twenty years ago. It is a method that involves the production of a group of identical cells or organisms that all derive from a single individual (Grolier 220). It i...

Abstract Ethics: The study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices to be made by a person; moral philosophy. This subject has many avenues of perception by all individuals. Some are based on environmental factors and others on experiences and influences. The following pape...

There is no doubt that most people have a special type of organization for their own individual room. When people come to think about a room, they think it's only a place to sleep in! Nowadays, this concept has changed. My room is like a palace, which provides me comfort and relaxat...

Genetic Engineering Anti-technologists and political extremists misinform, and over exaggerate statements that genetic engineering is not part of the natural order of things. The moral question of genetic engineering can be answered by studying human evolution and the idea of survival of the fi...