Throughout the history of mankind, Humans have evolved from one era to another. Starting off Stone age to Modern age of 16th century, we've always been really slow at progress up until 20th century.
Stone Age
Introduction of modern means of transport and communication advanced technologies and economies at a massive scale.
From beginning of 21st century, computer processing power has increased exponentially along with internet bandwidth, there's been increased focus towards environment preservation, Sustainable energy, Electric vehicles, smart devices including smartphones and home appliances.
Apple Homepod
The future holds many promises to be fulfilled, science fiction of 20th century coming to life. However there could be many potential threats that come along, some prominent nominations like AI and Automated industry taking over jobs.
All aspects of these factors will be discussed in each of their own respective topics.
With all the progression we're moving towards the age of information. Everything relies on the data we can store, optimized machines reading that data efficiently, this provides convenience but at the risk of privacy. Social networks that hold your data in return for the promise of freedom of expression that you get online, they don't just store all the data for nothing but to monetize at the expense of your privacy, selling certain traits of your behavior to advertisers. Although this aspect is subjective as to whether its ethical or unethical as it doesn't really harm the consumer but it certainly has intrigued a lot of social media platforms to encourage you to spend most of your time on their website. Building massive servers and data centers pushing us further into virtual life we live online.
Data center
There has also been a rise of tech jobs in return which is a really positive outcome, The age of information has just begun. There's so much more to come, Home assistants, smart appliances that sync and work together, smartphones organizing and adapting to your daily lifestyle, self driving autonomous cars, self sustained solar powered homes/offices.
All of the concerns, rewards and threats that future holds will be covered in their own entirety in upcoming articles so you can judge for yourself. Please Follow and upvote if you enjoy learning and sharing information. It'll really help this channel grow a lot.
The future sure sounds lazy and comfortable than ever before but the expense of lost jobs and possible capitalization on super advanced AI, is it justified to say that out future will be great ?
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