It’s pretty much inevitable that at the rate we are going at now, technology is just going to keep advancing as time goes on. Though it is hard not to fear what is unknown and undiscovered, I can only hope that there will be positive outcomes from these advances and that will make our quality of life better.
The reason we find ourselves in the midst of a technological revolution is because we have so many hopes and wishes for what these advances may bring. For example, even just in the past two years or so there have been discoveries in technology that can help the blind see. By placing an electrode array on the surface of a tongue, scientists have developed a way to send visual information from a video device to the electrode. “study participants have been able to recognize high-contrast objects, their location, movement, and some aspects of perspective and depth” Being able to make the blind see is so mind boggling that you can only imagine what other things are possible. Curing diseases such as aids, or even cancer seems a little bit more realistic now.
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