Monday, February 15, 2010

Is technological advance bound to end?

For a while now, I have been thinking about technology and the way it advances. I read and looked at videos. And just thought in my spare time. I see that the farther I go back in time, and the farther I go forward in time, people have different interests when it comes with technology. With each and every new innovative product, comes new ways to shape our imagination when it comes with technology.
A very long time ago, say, when the first television was made. We all know the first television was awfully big and thick in size. Nowadays, we won't even consider purchasing a television over half an inch thick.
With that said, how will we react when there is a television that cannot be made? People try to make televisions very thin, but the electronics in the tv have to go somewhere. So once a television becomes too thin to make, we will just have to keep it like that. Instead, we will just have to start changing what the television can do instead of how thin it is. Same goes for technology in society. Once everything in the field of technology becomes our imagination and more, and there is no possible way to advance it, then we will have to keep it that way and instead add to it instead of change it.
I know some people will say that it is impossible for technological advance to end since there are so many new things being discovered everyday. But think about it!
The rate of technological advance is slower than technology itself. I say this because some of you might think since technology is advancing so fast these days, that it feels like it is impossible to end. For a type of technology to become obsolete, it would take centuries. But for technological advance to become obsolete, it would take many millennia. Let me speak out of context for a second but still pertain to the same thing:
Very long ago, if a human wanted to eat, we had to hunt and gather. By the end of the last century the last hunting and gathering society probably have vanished. This took thousands of years to end but not as long as it will take for technological advance to end.
Nothing is made to last. Nothing; not even technology.