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So the future of technology is going to create a radically different world.
The phone that folks carry all the time with them
has more computing power than
the computers that
sent us to the moon in the 1960s.
But wouldn't it be nice if your whole house was integrated and it did
everything?
Computers in tables,
refrigerators that
gave you a grocery list. Damn why not just send it to the grocery store and have
it delivered to you? When you map the power of computing against the timelines,
it's a linear curve.
I think it's going to be that technology
will present itself in a much more,
I don't want to say human light, because I don't think that's a good role for
technologicaly, but in a much more
conversational way and a much more sociable way than it presents itself today.
These computers won't be
as we see them today, and there won't be smartphones and there won't be tablets but
things will be
embedded in devices. They'll be
around us all. So I think that's the future.
I don't believe the future is where we've got electrodes
implanted in our brain,
and we start to have these visions of people which nobody else can see,
because that just seems outright creepy to me.
Will there be these larger, massive machines that are capable of doing more
than, say,
my table,
which will likely be more powerful than any mainframe we know today?
It will built into that table.
But will we be solving a different class of problems with these new
machines? And I think
we will be.
We'll coexist with
diseases like cancer. We'll have early
detection
and very non-invasive intervention
and prevention ahead of time. People who suffer from cancer,
at the moment, curing cancer is a sledgehammer. Every human being is
probably going to be able to map their DNA and genes
and predictably very early in life
where they're heading in terms of ailments and diseases and avoid that.
So the life expectancy is going to increase.
I think the discussion is going to change. IT is just going to become something that's everywhere.
This is not something that's maybe happening.
It is happening.
It's machine-to-machine interface.
It's machine-to-machine communication.
The traffic lights, the traffic stops
are all going to become intelligent.
The roads are going to start talking to the cars,
and the cars are going to talk to each other. Oh, well, of course, I want a flying
car.
They promised us that in 1950. They said by
1984 we'd have flying cars.
I think it's going to become much more like technology will be
our assistant.
Damn, if it wouldn't be nice just to be able to sit back and say,
"Take me to Fred's house."
And you're taken to Fred's house. You didn't steer. You didn't have to worry
about traffic. You're reading a comic.
Those types of things,
not mind-blowing
but will make us wonder
why we ever did it
any other way.
You've got so much computing
power
you arrive at this computing singularity,
and when you get beyond it, everything is done by machines.
Well, there will still be people who
create these things,
but it won't be IT as we see it today. There won't have to be a sys admin,
a windows admin, a mainframe sysprog,
but there will be people who still specialize in that development.
And the rules are set by the consumer. The consumer says,
"You keep me waiting longer than four seconds, I'm done."
How fast is fast? I think that is what
is going to be a
surprise to us,
how far we can take the technology.
The concept
won't even exist, because we have it today, because we have to wait.
But if you've never had to wait for anything then you wouldn't be thinking about fast.
Like "Beam me up, Scotty?" Like Star Trek?
Go anywhere anytime?
Probably go see my dad
in India
in an instant if I wanted to. Anything.
That's when you really see, I think, the revolution.
It's not as you live it.
It's when you look backwards. I don't know. I don't want to say
it's not possible.
Anything's possible.