Historical Background Technology Forecasting is a product of the 20th century. Prior forecasting efforts were largely based upon the assumption and guidance of recognized experts in a given field and little more scientific thought was put into a forecast. Beginning in the 1930’s‚ a much more structured and formulated approach was placed upon the investigation‚ research‚ and predictability of future technologies. The United States Government played a critical role in emergence of technology forecasting
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Salvation or Destruction: The Singularity is Near! Is the singularity humanity’s new evolution‚ which will catapult the species to a god-like status‚ or the ultimate means of its destruction? This is the main theme of Transcendent Man‚ based off the book The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil. Ray‚ a notable futurist‚ hypothesizes that in the near future our technology will reach a point where computers can outperform the human brain‚ continue getting smaller and humanity will then blend with its
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and What It Means to Be Human” Garreau discusses the concept “singularity” along with views from Vernon Vinge‚ Ray Kurzweil and others. Singularity is this drastic change that will take place during a period of accelerating change in particular with technology. “The Curve implies one of the all-time changes in the rules. Those who study it call it “The Singularity”. (p.67) Garreau covers three different scenarios of singularity one he calls it heaven‚ which is viewed as something good taking
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Earth could be a consequence of the gravitational force‚ because the acceleration due to gravity could change the velocity of the Moon in just such a way that it followed an orbit around the earth. This can be illustrated with the thought experiment shown in the following figure. Suppose we fire a cannon horizontally from a high mountain; the projectile will eventually fall to earth‚ as indicated by the shortest trajectory in the figure‚ because of the gravitational force directed toward the center
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done with singularity. I feel like there will always have to be a human behind every Ibot‚ robot‚ x-box‚ or any combination in between. Just like they are saying we can send a rocket into space without astronauts‚ which I am sure‚ is possible with the help of humans here on earth telling it what to do. I just do not think that technology will ever outgrow our mind power; after all it started with us in the beginning. I think humanity will be better off without the passing of singularity. It sounds
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we are able to create machines smarter than humans‚ then those machines could do likewise‚ but much faster. The result will be an explosion of intelligence‚ and according to Vernor Vinge‚ the end of the human era. The Friendly AI Problem The Singularity Institute was founded to counter the threat of unfriendly artificial intelligence‚ losing control of the machines we have built‚ but the problem remains unsolved. Shane Legg proved that a machine (such as your brain) cannot predict (and thus cannot
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objects on earth. Believing that gravitational forces were responsible for each‚ Newton was able to draw an important conclusion about the dependence of gravity upon distance. This comparison led him to conclude that the force of gravitational attraction between the Earth and other objects is inversely proportional to the distance separating the earth’s center from the object’s center. But distance is not the only variable affecting the magnitude of a gravitational force. Consider Newton’s famous
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dropped and falls to the ground it has a falling rate of 9.8 meters per second‚ squared. Newton’s law of universal gravitation states that any two objects in the Universe exerts gravitational attraction on each other‚ with the force having a universal form: ‚ F=the gravitational force G= the universal gravitational constant R=Separation between the objects M1= First Mass M2=Second Mass Hypothesis: When two objects are dropped from the same height and distance at the same time‚ both objects
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Stage 6 – Yr 12 Notes 9.2 Space: Context 1 – The Earth has a gravitational field that exerts a force on objects both on it and around it. Define weight as the force on an object due to a gravitational field Mass (m): • The amount of matter in a body • Constant anywhere in the universe • Scalar quantity • Measured in Kilograms (Kg) Weight (W): • The force acting on an object due to a gravitational field • Attractive force • Vector quantity • Direction
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TABLE 1 *CRUMPLE ZONE: NON-CONTROLLED TRIAL | TRIAL | TIME(Sec) | DISTANCE(cm) | DISPLACEMENT(cm) | SPEED(m/s) | ACCELERATION=V-U/T | MAXIMUM VELOCITY(m/s) | ANGLE OF RAMP(Degrees) | MASS OF CAR(g) | GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY(mgh) | KINETIC ENERGY(1/2mv2) | HEIGHT OF RAMP(cm) | 1 | 1.44 | 0.0149 | 0.0119 | 0.01035 | 0.574 | 0.826 | 20 | 226.22 | 0.1821 | 77.17 | 35 | 2 | 1.19 | 0.0153 | 0.0123 | 0.01286 | 0.869 | 1.034 | 25 | 226.22 | 0.2185 | 120.9 | 42 | 3 | 1.13 | 0.0158 | 0.0128
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