Google search....

294 000 000......

What does this incredibly big nummer mean? Could it be the nummer of ants in all forests? Could it be the number of votes in all idols competitions in america throughout the history? Well, the answer is the number of matches on Google when you search for the words "the future"... :) I´m sitting on a Saturday evening, a couple of hours before party time and the only thing that I can think of is blogging and trendspotting. The last words that I can remember from Magnus was "don´t go and search for the future on google"....so that´s what I did, just to be a little contradictory! On the top ten matches I found a very interesting site, "Life in the future 2010 and beyond" (http://www.alittlehistory.com/future.htm). I found a small post that was very interesting and made med think a little. It brings me back a bit to my last post in my blog. This time it´s not about vending machines, it´s about computers. That made med ask myself the question, when will a computer be as smart as a human being, and when can a computer do all the things that a human being can?

"In time, more advanced computers will be able to be creative, respond to feelings in a feeling way, develop intuition, recognize patterns, and suggest innovative alternatives." (http://www.alittlehistory.com/future.htm)

I think there is something important to this. I believe that in some time in the future the computers will take over more and more. I believe that we will have som kinds of robots in our homes. I strongly believe that computers will be able to respond to feelings and as the quote says develop intuition. This goes hand in hand with my last post, are we heading to a world with less personal assistance that will be replaced with machines and computers? Like I said before, I really hope not. I also think that this is something that we should be aware of even today. If we develop the computers in the wrong ways we will end up with a high unemployment rate. So to summarize todays weird but not useless post I think that we should keep up the good work in developing high tech computers but at the same time be aware of what will happen if we develop it on the expense of human resources!

Well that´s all for today, and no, I haven´t been drinking yet, even if it might seem so :)