Future of Computers Lawrence Rush & Sai Prabhakar

The computer chip  So cheap, they will be in anything and everything  Market factors drive down prices, and Moore’s Law improves the technology  One cheap chip now has more processing power than all the Nations in WW2

What will happen  Chip+Phone=Cell phone, Chip+Phonograph=ipod, Chip + plane=Deadly Predator Drone  Everything in environment will be a computer of some kind  “Ubiquitous Computing”  The word computer will disappear

 Contact lenses that will be able to give instant information about anything at a glance  Driverless cars that will make car accidents a thing of the past  Videogames that allow for real movement and include a sense of touch  Clothes that will scan DNA for bad genes and virtual doctors that can answer questions

Augmented Reality  Virtually recreated scenes from the past on contact lenses  Information available at a glance  Memorization will be a thing of the past  Translations will appear in real-time as a person speaks a different language

Computers and the brain  Specialized computer chips will be able to read minds  Biofeedback will be able to directly control computers  Thinking will be able to control things in the physical world  Magnetism can give people the force

Ethical Issues  So much information available that it may invade one’s privacy  Students will be able to discreetly cheat much easier, meaning education system may have to change  Memorization will slowly start to disappear  People may get far too lost in their virtual lives  People may be able to alter their genes and change their bodies, a “real” person may seldom be seen

Issues with mind reading  How are you supposed to hit on a girl if she can read your mind?  What will the future of negotiating be like?  Will it be possible to lie?

Testing Knowledge

What are three words that could disappear from the human speech?

Computer, Car accident, Tumor

What were some of the Technologies that were created for the military before being given to the public?

 Driverless car(to automate U.S. Military Forces)  GPS(to guide ICBM missiles)  Internet(to connect scientists and officials in a nuclear war)

What are some applications for internet connected contact lenses?

 Military use (anyone else see that coming?)  Taking photos or recording events(with no one else knowing)  Recreate long lost images or destroyed civilizations before your eyes  Translate languages as they are spoken

What’s New? Fabric Circuit Boards  Can be washed and worn  One day will be capable of biometric monitoring  Especially valuable for law enforcers or military personnel -

3-D Printable Military Grade Drone  Payload of 1.5 pounds  Brain is a Smartphone  If it crashes, just print out another one and destroy more stuff! -

Robotic Hawks  Designed to fly around and show birds what it means to fear  Uses flapping wing flight  Can be used to protect airports, land fills, and farms -

LETS TALK ABOUT IT!  1. FORM GROUPS OF 3-4  2. READ QUESTION  3. CONVERSE WITH CLASS MEMBERS  4. COME UP WITH CREATIVE SOLUTIONS  5. SHARE

QUESTION 1  IMAGINE THE JOB YOU WISH TO HOLD WHEN YOU GET OLDER, COULD A ROBOT PROGRAMMED BY A SUPERCOMPUTER, BE PROGRAMMED TO DO THAT JOB AS WELL AS YOU? IF NOT BETTER?

QUESTION 2  COULD THERE BE ANOTHER WORLD WAR IN THE FUTURE? IF SO HOW WOULD ADVANCE COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS AFFECT WARFARE?

QUESTION 3  WITH ADVANCES IN COMPUTERS LEADING TO ADVANCES IN BIOENGINEERING. WHAT IF YOU COULD PROGRAM YOUR CHILDREN'S GENETICS? WOULD YOU WANT TO?

RUN-ON Sentences  A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses are not joined correctly. An independent clause is a group of words that can stand alone as a sentence, as in, “the bear growls”. Your writing may be confusing or unclear if independent clauses are joined incorrectly.  FUSED: When two independent clauses are joined incorrectly. Can be corrected by adding a comma or additional words.  COMMA SPLICE: When two independent clauses are separated by a comma. It can be corrected by replacing the comma by a semicolon, adding “and” or “because” or restructuring the entire sentence.

FUSED  Run-on: My professor read my paper she said it was excellent.  Correction: My professor read my paper, and she said it was excellent.

COMMA SPLICE  Run-on: My cat meowed angrily, I knew she wanted food.  Correction: My cat meowed angrily; I knew she wanted food. -My cat meowed angrily; therefore, I knew she wanted food.

CONVERTING CLAUSES TO SENTENCES  Run-on: It seemed to Wanda that her daughter had more than enough crayons, they were strewn across the bedroom floor and some of them were broken, and, worse still, someone had used the stub of a red crayon to mark a sinister smiley face on the wall.  Correction: It seemed to Wanda that her daughter had more than enough crayons. They were strewn across the bedroom floor, and some of them were broken. Worse still, someone had used the stub of a red crayon to mark a sinister smiley face on the wall.

RESTRUCTURING A CLAUSE  Run-on: I told my roommate I would be late, she still locked me out.  Correction: Although I told my roommate I would be late, she still locked me out.

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