People say that the smarter technology becomes, the more humans
become stupid. Indeed, with the use of mobile phones and recent smart phones,
for example, we use our brain less. We don’t have to remember things that our
“friend” in the pocket can easily store.
Moreover, technology cannot stop its development. Certainly, the use
of the Internet will not disappear, but the device will be subjected to some
change. We already assist this change. In fact, even if they are not popular
yet, different companies have already introduced to the market watches able to
connect to the Net. So, we might assist the revolution of smartphone that will become
the smart-watch, a device with the same function of the previous one, but just
in a smaller shape.
User comfort has been considered important by a fashion designer who
has released a bracelet that warns its owner, when she has spent too much time
under the sun. Besides the high cost, this clever device has still to overcome
other issues such as being designed only for ladies and, most important, its
inability to work if wet.
It is likely that the development in communication technology will
fix these weaknesses and encourage further research in linked fields, such as
medicine. The improvement in technology may offer better communication between
patients and their doctor, and a communication between patients and their sick organs,
through devices able to sound an alarm when people put their bodies at risk.
In future videoconference, shortening distances will be the normality
through 3D and intangible display with touch screen technology. Hence, during
critical surgery, doctors in one hospital will be able to conduct the operation
under the supervision of an expert situated on the other side of the world.
Students of tomorrow will probably not need to go to school, but
class will normally hold by the Internet; or in a more futuristic scenario,
children will have their personal teacher at home in the shape of Artificial
Intelligence.
In this futuristic scenario, a few smart people will use their brain
for the comfort of the masses, who will inevitably get lazier. We will
communicate less with human beings and more with robots. We won’t call our
husbands or wives in order to defrost something for dinner while we are at work,
but we will communicate directly with our fridge, smart enough to follow our
commands.
Sms language will improve so much that codes used today, such as
smiles and other symbols, will be considered as hieroglyphics of the 21st
Century.
Few smart people will develop a universal war code that will aim no
to kill soldiers and civilians, but attack only technological systems among
countries in conflict. These will be the technological wars; countries in
conflict will spread viruses through the Net, able to damage the entire
technological system of a nation and cause more or less serious discomfort to
its population. Until one day, in front of the impossibility to talk with our
devices, some “stupid human being” will rediscover the necessity to really talk
with another “stupid human being”.
Hopefully, in this futuristic scenario a few smart people will be smart
enough to respectful the environment and develop innovative technologies that
follow a green philosophy.
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