FEAR: Future Events Appear Real

This class has been quite interesting. We’ve covered much about the history of technology – Dot com to Dot bomb, WWW, Tim Berners Lee, Internet of Things IOT, evolution of computational power and Moore’s Law, and so much more. I think one of the areas we covered that I find most interesting is Moore’s Law. Gordon Moore is the co-founder of Intel – one of the biggest companies— for computer system manufacturing and for producing computer processors that make our high-end laptops and desktops function— that still stand today. Moore developed Moore’s Law— his law stating that processor speeds will double every two years. I believe that is absolutely true. The first method of Moore’s observation for Moore’s Law was to make any devices process information smaller and smaller. The eruption of computing power may come from the eruption in size of computing components. However, if microchips for devices become smaller and faster over time – wouldn’t those microchips generate heat and eventually melt? Moore’s Law is quite important to today since technology is now surrounding almost all societies (considering that some societies may not have access to technology). And the reasons why Moore’s Law may exist or may have been brought up more often today is so that technological manufacturers can keep up with the law and compete amongst each other. Customers may also demand for better products, which also feeds the competition part of manufacturing computer processors. Many things relate to Moore’s Law as well – such as memory capacity, processing speed and even sensors.

The way information is being transmitted and accessed has become quite faster, so everything for technology may improve roughly at an exponential pace. I think speed and time are the things I’m most afraid of when it comes to technology. When will we ever slow down and start to think and really analyze what we’re doing? Or maybe it’s even possibly to do so while everything increases – but… how would we even keep track if everything passes by too fast? It’s as if we’re in a running marathon – runners would pass by so quickly without having to rest… so when is technology’s breaking point? I think not knowing (or not being able to accurately predict) is what contributes to my fear for time and speed. I was a student of the Environmental Science program at my university, and we’ve done plenty of labs where we needed to analyze and make predictions for any study we had to conduct. But for technology… I’m not quite sure if it’s even possible to conduct a study when things already happened and it’s too late to turn back.

To be honest… at this age, although I’m aware I’m young in my early 20s, I feel pretty old myself. With this much fear and exhaustion (and BS one must go through in this life), I should be 85 yrs. old instead.

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