Today's society has become almost completely dependent on IT use in our day to day lives. This has completely reshaped the environment we as humans grow up in almost everywhere in the world. Society has always shifted like this however. New generations adapt to new technologies that spring up, the old complain and the young wonder why.
However, never before has technology progressed at the speed it is doing so right now.
In 1965 Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel said,
"The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year. "
From the graph above you can see how correct he was. From 1971 to 2011 the transistor count in microprocessor, CPU, chips has roughly doubled every two years.
This has never been as exciting and alarming as it has right now. Old computers have only really been able to perform rudimentary tasks, but as they have evolved and become smaller and smaller, they've slowly crept into our lives whether we were aware or not.
This has many implications humans have never really needed to consider before.
This has many implications humans have never really needed to consider before.
I think you're right that the speed of change is so fast now that people struggle to keep up. And often the technology is out there and in use before people really understand its implications - after all how many celebs have got into trouble for tweeting controversial comments not realising that once its out there they can't take it back.
ReplyDeleteWill there be a point where we can go no further with the advancement of technology or will people continue to find more innovative ways to make technology progressively more compact and yet more powerful.
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