Important People

Gordon Moore- is the author of moore's law which describes an important trend in the history of computer hardware, it states that the doubling of the number of transistors and double the speed of the computer happens every 18 months.
Alan Turing- is the author of the turing test which is a test where a computer tries to fool a human being, there is a judge and the turing test has not been passed yet.
Steve Jobs- is the co-founder and the ceo of apple. He was a creator of pixar for disney and he is considered to be a leading figure in both computer and entertainment industries.
Bill Gates- is the chairman of microsoft and has been ranked as the richest person in the world from 1995-2007.
Larry Page- is a co-founder of the internets google search engine and is an estimated worth $18.5 billion.
Tim Burner-Lee- created the memory software for finding things which would grow on the World Wide Web.
Jeff Bezos- is the founder of amazon.com. Now he is the president and chief executive officer.
Steve Ballmer- is the chief executive officer of microsoft corporation. He was roomates with Bill Gates in college.
Kevin Rose- founded the social-bookmarking site Digg. Digg is a community based popularity website with an emphasis on science and technology.

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners Lee is responsible for every single persons obsession with the web in America. He is the founder of the internet and is only 52 years old! He was born in London, England and now officially goes by Sir Tim Berners Lee because he was knighted by the Queen of England. It is easily debatable that he has come up with the most important invention throughout history.

Jeff Bezos

I wish I was Jeff Bezos, he is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Although he was worth about 7 more billion dollars in 1999 but now he is worth 3.7 billion dollars. It started with a crazy idea of him selling books online and running to bookstores and now has turned into a billion dollar success. You can now buy anything on Amazon.com and everything that billions of people around the world are buying, some of that profit is going to him. That is why I wish I was Jeff Bezos.

Singularity

I do not believe that singularity will happen. I cannnot see a computer thinking and being smarter than a human. A computer can have as much information that is put into it by the human and process all of it. But it cannot think on its own

The Creation of Smarter Minds

I believe that once we do hit a certain point in technology are minds will be able to become smarter and hold more information. I do not think that once we have the technology, to assist our brains with technology that it will create more intelligence for humans. I think computers could only do so much as far as giving us information, I do not think that computers will ever be able to think like humans do using the right side of the brain which contains creativity and things of that sort. When computers will be assisting us in our thinking they will be able to do things such as; help us know about any historical event, know about any book and compute any math problem. But I cannot see a computer being able to process something and be able to interact.

Turing Test

The Turing test is a test where a judge has a conversation with a person and a computer and has to figure out which is which. The computer tries to trick the judge into thinking he is human. When this happens this would be an incredible accomplishment but also very scary. For a computer to be able to fool a human would be incredible. To some this may seem like a thought that is so out there, but with the accomplishments tht we have already had, why would one not believe that this could happen in the near future. Although I do not believe in the whole singularity thing, I do believe that the Turing Test will be passed around the year 2020.

Moore's Law

Moore's Law descrives the trend and advancement our computers have been going through. He statess that the transistors that are on the integrated circuit is increasing approxiametly every two years. I think that the plateau of computer advancement in the next 20 years but do not agree with what Ray Kurzweil is saying about singularity. I do believe we have made some incredible advancements up to date such as when no one thought that a car would be able to drive it self but today we have seen cars being able to navigate themselves with GPS systems. I do not think that computers will make the step where they are smarter than the human brain and even if this does happen (which I do not believe) I don't think the public would know about it, because I think it would be too dangerous of a thing for our society to have.