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100 1 _aMerritt, Bob.
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245 1 4 _aThe Digital Revolution
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_cby Bob Merritt.
250 _a1st ed. 2016.
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300 _aIX, 99 p.
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490 1 _aSynthesis Lectures on Emerging Engineering Technologies,
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505 0 _aAcknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Next Technology Wave -- Makimoto's Technology Waves -- The Digital Revolution -- Emergence of the Second Digital Wave -- Technical Impact -- Architectural Impact of Digital Wave -- Social Impact of the Digital Revolution -- Other Unanticipated Consequences -- Robotics: The Third Digital Wave -- Era of Cognitive Systems -- The Uncanny Valley -- The Human Interface to Advanced Robotics -- Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) -- Acceleration Rate of Artificial Intelligence -- The Industrial Revolution Revisited -- Singularitarianism -- The Noosphere -- Mapping the Brain -- Conclusion -- Author's Biography .
520 _aAs technologists, we are constantly exploring and pushing the limits of our own disciplines, and we accept the notion that the efficiencies of new technologies are advancing at a very rapid rate. However, we rarely have time to contemplate the broader impact of these technologies as they impact and amplify adjacent technology disciplines. This book therefore focuses on the potential impact of those technologies, but it is not intended as a technical manuscript. In this book, we consider our progress and current position %toward on arbitrary popular concepts of future scenarios rather than the typical measurements of cycles per second or milliwatts. We compare our current human cultural situation to other past historic events as we anticipate the future social impact of rapidly accelerating technologies. We also rely on measurements based on specific events highlighting the breadth of the impact of accelerating semiconductor technologies rather than the specific rate of advance of any particular semiconductor technology. These measurements certainly lack the mathematic precision and repeatability to which technologists are accustomed, but the material that we are dealing with-the social objectives and future political structures of humanity-does not permit a high degree of mathematic accuracy. Our conclusion draws from the concept of Singularity. It seems certain that at the rate at which our technologies are advancing, we will exceed the ability of our post‒Industrial Revolution structures to absorb these new challenges, and we cannot accurately anticipate what those future social structures will resemble.
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