A miniaturizing world....

Today I had the opportunity to listen to Nicklas Bergman. He had some very interesting thoughts about the future. There were three things that he said or showed us in the class that caught my eye and ears. The first thing was something he said. He said that the world is changing to a miniaturizing world. Everything keeps getting smaller. When you give it some thought, you realize that it´s true. I mean just look at cell phones, I mean compare a cell phone today to the phones we had ten years ago. You can fit ten of the cell phones today in a cell phone ten years ago. Another example is the music industry. Before we had big LP discs and today we barely have any disks at all, today it´s all about mp3 players.

The second thing that was something he showed and commented. It was a graph which showed how smart a 1000 dollar computer is compared to the human brain today. The graph also showed in what year a 1000 dollar computer will be as smart as one human brain and last but not least it also showed when a 1000 dollar computer is smarter than all brains in the world together. That was a very scary graph, especially that there might come a time where one 1000 dollar computer can be smarter than all human brains together. This goes hand in hand with the thoughts that I´ve had in my earlier posts. So it seems like the computer is going to take over in one way or another. It´s only up to us to take advantage of that in the right way. With the right way I mean that we should develop and use it in a way that it won´t take away too many jobs and become a negative effect on the society instead of being a revolutionary invention.

The third and last thing that caught my eye was a picture of a beer bottle in the future. The cool thing about this beer bottle was that the bottle itself contained a self chilling system. You could choose what temperature you wanted the beer to have. That wasn´t all, it also contained an alcoholic measurement system which enabled you to see how much you had to drink and you could see if you were in the right state of mind to drive a car. I think we that we can save a lot of lives if all beers in the world had this function, but at the same time, a function like that would raise the prize for beers a lot. I´ve tried to find the picture that Nicklas used, but with no luck….