Is our expansive evolution in technological advancement a wrong turn for humanity? Or has it evolved without our consciousness keeping up to steward it effectively?
Computers Introduced Me to Rapid Change
At that time, I just getting interested in computer graphics and I encountered “Moore’s Law”, which refers to the observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.
That meant that processing power doubled in the same span of time, allowing graphics, for example, to go from color, to 3D, to 3D with texture mapping and other effects, and on and on.
One example of this was the original movie Jurassic Park, which was made with 3D models of dinosaurs having their wire frames “texture mapped” – covered with skin and then animated on a Silicon Graphics work station. The processing power required to render these images quickly enough for a 30 frames per second film was staggering.
Exponential change not only promises rapid advances in science and technology, but also contains the seeds of its own demise. The more rapid the change, the greater the stress on the environment. What are the implications for the future of humanity? I created this using an AI clone of my face and voice. It’s not perfect, I know. It was an experiment to see what is possible with the various AI tools available. And I thought I’d use it to interview my clone on my new book, Forgiving Humanity.
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