Here a photo of a robot looking at an electronic board.Maybe wondering what it will bring in the future.
HOW WILL PHYSICS AND
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOP IN THE FUTURE?
We tend to think science and
technology to develop along a straight line towards the top of a mountain of
knowledge. But is it? There are levels of skills, knowledge and technical
feasibilities. Some levels in history stretches out from the invention of the
wheel, developing tools for the artisan, the first industrial revolution with
its steam engine and the second industrial revolution with assembly lines, cars
and vast factories. A third revolution followed with integrated circuits, fast
computers and the internet. Perhaps a biological revolution is waiting with
applications like sensors, nano- technological applications to be built in
everywhere, also into the human body. Big data will influence our economy.
Platforms will deliver services and products at home .All this seem to be waiting
for us in this century. No doubt human society will be transformed to a society
with communicating possibilities everywhere. And information can be manipulated
as well. Levels for information handling, technology for the human body and
the brain will be explored. History tells us that all those revolutionary changes
are leveled in a sort of plateaus. A level for mechanization, scale
enlargements, digitalization of electronics, information technology and
industry in general will change society completely and will become more
personalized. Ways for medical treatment, energy source developing and space technology profoundly will change. And
changes happen according to paradigm changing. All works according to their own
paradigm of science and technology. What is a paradigm? It are those ideas and starting points of a group of people
like artisans, scientists, and technicians have together for their work. Also influenced
by politics society changes accordingly. As Thomas Kuhn explained in his work: “The
Structure of Scientific Revolution “all paradigms one day has to come to
an end. At that time all technicians scientists and artisans have done
all they could, given the tools they could use. The paradigm has become worn
out. As squeezing fruit have to stop if all the juice is gone. Another paradigm
has to be invented and will follow. Will science and technology develop in a
straight line with the sky as the limit? The answer seems definitely not.
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