Do you think humans will keep technology from becoming too advanced?

Question

When computers achieve the computational capacity of one human brain somewhere around the year 2020, will humanity continue to move forward or will we shift back for fear of what the new technology will bring?

Yes, at the rate we're going we will have achieved the computational capacity of one human brain in a $1000 PC. It says so in "Age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kurzweil. That's because our technology advancement moves at an exponential rate instead of a linear rate.

Answer 1

From the trends I have seen, technology will be pushed forward at an astronomical rate (moving past exponential at this rate). Humans seem to become more dependent upon technology for most things (which makes me wonder if many people today would be able to survive in any of our ancestor's times). Technology should be scaled back for humans to appreciate and attain a full or more rounded understanding, but that is quite unlikely to happen.

Instead of a shift back, there could actually be a halt in technological progress to allow for other aspects of society to catch up as well as observe what we could be peering into with each new step forward.

Answer 2

Forget the 2020 brain. It will not happen.

There have been many, many reasons for humanity to fear what technology has brought. Shall we go back to the invention of the atomic bomb? Or do we say that the H bomb was the REAL reason we should have stopped? Or maybe is was the point when we stockpiled enough nuclear weapons to destroy humanity several times over. Perhaps it was the missle that could deliver the bomb from many miles away.

No, maybe we should go back to the development of the airplane. It was just a rich or excentric man's hobby intil WWI spurred its development.

Or was it the perfection of the repeating rifle? Aw heck lets just say that when TNT was invented, we should have hanged Alfred Nobel and burnt his notes. No, no, wait. Nobel made gunpowder SAFER to use, lets blame the Chinese for inventing it. But really, isn't it the development of higher math that has gotten us in trouble? But the genie's out of that bottle. How can we put it back?

The invention of the Roman Phalanx? The Assyrian Chariot? The spear? The sharpened rock? The pointy stick?

Humans will not stop research and the development of technology, until, perhaps, technology destroys mankind.

Answer 3

the human currently uses around 8% of the brain... i doubt that in 2020 that humans are going to reach their full intelligent capacity. humans are smart creatures as well as very creative. 50 years ago, we wouldnt have dreamt of having the internet, but look at us now.... we're answering other people's questions from all over the world.

Answer 4

Not if the human race wants to clone it self. That is what are nature is "a big brain and to only keep building." So the answer to your question is it never will happen and if it does it will only be for a temporary period of time.

Answer 5

Humans will keep technology because no matter how advance it is those lazy people out there will still want to have it more advance and they will fight for it until they get what they want.

Answer 6

Nope it will make better teachnology but only making the technology controlable

Answer 7

bodily? sure Mentally? Fcuk No! Adults with the mentallity of Spoiled infants have their finger on the button which could deliver this finished planet into the subsequent trouble-free of fact. "And the adult adult males who carry severe places could desire to be those to start to mildew a clean fact closer to the middle!" (Neil Pert)

Answer 8

We'll keep shifting forward like cocky morons then before we know it, robots will have overtaken the earth...