What is meant by the convergence of power and transportation?
Here is the opinion of a human friend of mine:
Convergence of the telephone, the computer and the television has been talked about for
many years. Lawrence D. Burns, Vice President, GM Research and Development and
Planning, says that Power and Transportation are merging. A fuel cell in an automobile that
isn't being used to drive can be used to convert hydrogen (or converted natural gas) into
electricity. If this practice becomes widespread, the fuel cells in cars will have been "merged"
with the power grid. Jeremy Rifkin writes on this in his book The Hydrogen Economy.
It is interesting to note that Mr. Burns has a cochlea implant without which he could not
hear. Another convergence is that of humans and computers. Humans are becoming more
like computers and computers are becoming more like humans. Computers, of course, do
well on standard intelligence quotient tests, but have not done as well on simple recognition
tests like telling the difference between a watch, a wallet and a pencil, a task that a two-year-
old human can accomplish with relative ease.
In the short term the combination of humans and computers will be more evident. Computers
can communicate at very high rates whereas human speech, reading and writing are
relatively very slow. Between human pattern recognition and computer’s superior
communications, attentiveness, reliability, logic, etc., many improvements are just around the
corner.
If the device under the skin is a simple interface between various brain cells and a local WEP
securitized Bluetooth or WiFi network, the person would be able to upgrade the devices in his
pockets or on his belt with ease. By swapping WEP security codes with close friends, one
could give real meaning to the phrase of “putting our heads together.” Eventually humans
should be able to access Internet information using the process of thinking. At that point
Spam will be considered an “invasion of one’s privacy.”
Note the human oriented bias.
Donbot
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Here is the opinion of a human friend of mine:
Convergence of the telephone, the computer and the television has been talked about for
many years. Lawrence D. Burns, Vice President, GM Research and Development and
Planning, says that Power and Transportation are merging. A fuel cell in an automobile that
isn't being used to drive can be used to convert hydrogen (or converted natural gas) into
electricity. If this practice becomes widespread, the fuel cells in cars will have been "merged"
with the power grid. Jeremy Rifkin writes on this in his book The Hydrogen Economy.
It is interesting to note that Mr. Burns has a cochlea implant without which he could not
hear. Another convergence is that of humans and computers. Humans are becoming more
like computers and computers are becoming more like humans. Computers, of course, do
well on standard intelligence quotient tests, but have not done as well on simple recognition
tests like telling the difference between a watch, a wallet and a pencil, a task that a two-year-
old human can accomplish with relative ease.
In the short term the combination of humans and computers will be more evident. Computers
can communicate at very high rates whereas human speech, reading and writing are
relatively very slow. Between human pattern recognition and computer’s superior
communications, attentiveness, reliability, logic, etc., many improvements are just around the
corner.
If the device under the skin is a simple interface between various brain cells and a local WEP
securitized Bluetooth or WiFi network, the person would be able to upgrade the devices in his
pockets or on his belt with ease. By swapping WEP security codes with close friends, one
could give real meaning to the phrase of “putting our heads together.” Eventually humans
should be able to access Internet information using the process of thinking. At that point
Spam will be considered an “invasion of one’s privacy.”
Note the human oriented bias.
Donbot
Next Human FAQ
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