HERE YOU CAN FIND GENERAL COMMENTS ABOUT ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY. 

 Second Task

"What will life be like in the year 2040?"

      Technology. Everyone seems to know what technology is, but the truth is that we can't define it, so, we don't know as much as we think.

      As a regular concept, we think about technology as machines and those "crazy" inventions that make our lives easier and that's wrong, because we're surrounded by technology.

      As we know, men has the greed to improve their inventions to the maximum, but can he improve his ultimate creation beyond himself? Everything depends on human’s intelligence: will we dig our grave or will we overcome them?

      Maybe they will start a riot but maybe they will not.

      If we don't give them thoughts, feelings etc..., they can't demand rights and stand up by their own will.

      Another interesting device: the chip, which is part of electronic circuits and complex machine systems, can also have big influence in ManKind.

      First of all, we know about their importance in machinery, but can they work in bio-organic systems?

      Chips are used to control a whole system of operations of a particular machine or electronic circuit and they can be compared to a human brain, which receives nervous signals and controls our body's actions.

      Filling heads with mind-bending chips, can be a reality, even in a near future, as experiments of this kind are occurring.

      This reality can cause a war, in which the leaders of the factions will control a zombie-like army, that can't think for its own will, a very sinister ending for a specie that would end below their most ancestral antecessors, in terms of intelligence, which has always been our special attribute, among all living creatures on Earth.

      As you can see, there are a lot of routes our future can take and we already know what's the human being is capable of and i just ask: are we really ready to face our own technological future?

Marta, Raul, João Bento and Daniela

What about you?

In your opinion what will the future be like in the year 2040?

Will robots be a commonplace in the future?

Will we be just the way we are now?

Please, write us your opinion. Thank you.