Quick: without grabbing your cell phone, tablet or PC, when did Earth population reach 7 billion? In the near future, the answer might be immediately whispered into your ear, “October 31, 2011.”
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Posted by
DutchCon on 09/22 at 05:06 PM
>It’s the year 2030
>‘today is the 20th anniversary of the first quantum computer.’
Did I miss something two years ago?
Posted by
Christian Corralejo on 09/22 at 06:59 PM
Not exactly. There have been a couple prototype quantum computers in the last few years but so far the most they have been able to calculate is 3X5=15, which is pretty impressive given the difficulty of the whole process.
@ Dick Pelletier
I agree that technology assisted telepathy is possible and this vid by Michio Kaku helps support it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl8GvPRvikM).
Posted by
Christian Corralejo on 09/22 at 07:11 PM
BTW, do you think technology assisted telekinesis could be possible as well (from a scientific point of view)?
Posted by
Dick Pelletier on 09/23 at 09:47 AM
@DutchCon, D-Wave built an early prototype, a 16-qubit system called Orion in February 2007. Then in late 2010, they demonstrated a working model of their 128-qubit model called D-Wave One, which they sold to Lockheed Martin Corporation for $10 million in May 2011, to help solve some of Lockheed’s most challenging computation problems.
@Christian Corralejo, D-Wave One does far more than calculate numbers. Lockheed Martin uses the system for “quantum annealing”, which applies to artificial intelligence-type applications, such a natural language processing, computer vision, bioinformatics, financial risk analysis, and other types of complex pattern matching. The process outputs software that can be deployed anywhere; mobile phones for example. The software the D-Wave One wrote, with collaborators from Google, was among the best detectors of cars in images ever built.
Regarding technology-assisted telekinesis, UC Berkeley researchers have built a Mind Reading Machine called, “Natural Movies,” which translates brain wave patterns into a moving image.
The images are the result of visual perception in subjects watching hours of YouTube videos. As their brains processed the stimulus sent by their eyes, an fMRI machine recorded brain activity and a computer program translated those signals into a representation of what was going through the subject’s mind.
As this computer-assisted electrocorticography technology evolves, it promises benefits, such helping disabled people, law enforcement, and researchers studying dreams; but there’s a dark side. It’s possible that decoding brain activity could have serious ethical and privacy implications by the 2040s, when this science is expected to mature.
Will humanity possess the intelligence to manage potentially dangerous technologies such as ECoG? Stay tuned!
Posted by
Christian Corralejo on 09/23 at 11:15 AM
@ Dick Pelletier
What you were describing didn’t sound like telekinesis (which is moving objects with your mind).
Posted by
Christian Corralejo on 09/23 at 11:18 AM
BTW, I posted a couple comments on your article about your timeline from 2010-2100. I would really like to hear your opinions on them.
Posted by
Dick Pelletier on 09/23 at 12:21 PM
Sorry, about the incorrect comment I made on telekinesis.
Although the Abnormal Studies Lab at Princeton has proven with thousands of experiments involving hundreds of men an women, that the human psyche can affect material objects; and that everyone is endowed with these paranormal abilities, I still find it difficult to believe.
Perhaps by late 2020s or so, when the completed “Blue Brain” project unravels many of the mysteries of consciousness, this rare trait can be better understood.
During the 2030s, we all may become psychokinetic.
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