MOBILE DEVICES, NETS AND INTELLIGENCE

摘要

Human progress over the past 50 years has arguably eclipsed all that has gone before in terms of discovery, creativity, knowledge, understanding and physical capabilities to create and build almost anything. Even more remarkable is that all of this progress is essentially down to one key material and technology: Silicon!Such a statement of our accelerated progress has no one line rejoinder, no easily stated QED; it requires a detailed analysis over many dimensions of technology, society and the human condition. But, if we simply want to impress and impact the thinking of others, we can perhaps do no better than quote the availability of the computing power empowering everything from farming to industry to healthcare; commerce to communication to logistics; government to defence to…