Singularity

After reading 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal by Lev Grossman, I can't help but feel scared. There is a guy named  Raymond Kurzweil who built a machine that writes music, in the 1960's. This isn't some big accomplishment now of course, but back then ,it should have been huge. Now Raymond Kurzweil has done a lot more. He has predicted that the "end of human civilization as we know it is about 35 years away." He believes that technology is growing faster and faster and 35 years from now, we will be serving technology, technology will not be serving us. This plays out in the fact that if we are serving technology, we could end up with there being no singularity. Which means that
technology will make us all the same such as human cyborgs or robots. Singularity is something that makes all of us different and if we take that away what do we have. We just have the same person with the same ideas and same consciousness, there's just alot of people with the same ideas. Through his research Kurzweil  has made a prediction "Here's what the exponential curves told him. We will successfully reverse-engineer the human brain by the mid-2020s. By the end of that decade, computers will be capable of human-level intelligence." Now first, i doubt that in 10 to 15 years we will have the technology to alter the human brain, we just came out with the droid and the IPhone not too long ago and i just can't see the phone industry doing any better than that. So then why do we believe that there is no cut off point for technology when i can see a possible one for it. I get that there are other things technology is involved in of course, but this one example I think that can be used to show how Kurzweil could be wrong with his predictions. I also think that because of us being aware of these things that could happen as far as losing our singularity to technology, i believe that  because of all the intellectual people we have on this earth and the fact that we keep on encouraging our generation to be different I think that Singularity will not be lost ... at least in our generation, for a pretty long time if ever.

The Technological Evolution of Filmmaking and its Relation to Quality in Cinema

I read The Technological Evolution of Film Making and its Relation to Quality in Cinema by Ryan A. Piccirillo. When i started to read this essay, i thought to myself, man this is pretty good. It was straight to the point, and it had a good topic that many can relate to because lets be honest, we all love movies. This essay to me was very good,  i noticed very few, if any, grammatical and punctual errors, which i expected because why else would it be published on this website. Then as I read on i found that his supporting paragraphs to his main point did not follow any sort of pattern at all. He just gave you information and put in his commentary and that was it. The author also used quite a bit of resources , it looks like from the same book, but nevertheless he used quotes everywhere. He used them in his commentary, concrete detail, and in some cases, his introductions to new ideas. This opened my eyes because i have only used, if at all, a little bit of quotes from other works and i only used them in my concrete details. Thinking back now I think that I was encouraged to use other people's work but not at the expense of the writing format that I had to use. The fact that we had a particular writing style was easy for me, but it did not challenge me. I would wrote my perfectly formed MLA style essay and get full credit because i stayed on topic and was able to follow the format very easily because i wasn't challenged to think outside the box. Sure it took a little while but i never got great ideas. Ideas like these that you are ables to expand on and continue to write about for what seems like forever. Like I said I was never challenged in writing before. I couldn't tell you how may essays I have written that have really good ideas, but are limited to the format that I was told to write in. Something that this particular essay does that I liked was that it needed no introduction. It started off with its point and never carried on. I was always told the the introduction is the most important part about my essays because it will make the reader "want" to keep reading, but lets be real, who wants to read a 10th graders views on a book that's in traditional format? I believe that being different is a good thing. So why can't we apply that to our essay style? why can't we be different? Here's why. We all want good grades! so we follow this thing that makes all of our essays the same for the grade, not better our writing skills or further our education.