In 2005 one of the most influential speakers of our generation published his book entitled The Singularity Is Near: A True Story About Our Future, and in it Kurzweil hypothesized that technology would eventually surpass human intelligence. nThe hypothesis is based off of a law, More’s law, and the law states that a computer chip’s computational power increases exponentially roughly every two years. Exponential acceleration takes place rather slowly at first, then gets faster and faster, and before you know it, its increasing at a rate that we wouldn’t be able to understand or comprehend as humans, Kurzweil says. Every day I’ve been thinking about that theory, about that actually happening, and more than ever it seems that now it actually seems possible. nWith the increased speed of network connections, we are now able to take other computer’s computational power and relay that information to other mobile user’s devices from phenomenal distances. This technology is called cloud computing and it is taking the mobile world by storm. Cloud computation is a newly rising technology, which offers computation as a service rather than a product. nTake a refrigerator for example, the refrigerator is needed because it offers a process that makes beverages cold, if there were a cloud refrigeration technology this would allow someone that wanted a colder beverage to simply pay for the time that their beverage was in the refrigerator. When the beverage is done being chilled, the customer then pays for the time used and goes on their way with their cooled beverage in hand. This is exactly what cloud computation offers, only instead of chilling beverages; the service offers computation on demand. nThe implications of this technology are extreme; Amazon is now integrating this technology into their new Kindle fire tablet with the Amazon Silk web browser. Amazon Silk is one of the first web browsers to offer the technology free-of-charge only to help increase the computational power of their cutting edge web browser. It is now possible to have the computational power of a $4,000 tower PC in the palm of your hand for a fee. Companies everywhere are beginning to jump on the bandwagon from Amazon’s AWS, which stands for Amazon Web Services to companies like IBM’s Smart Business and Test Development cloud. AWS is actually currently number one as the most popular cloud computing service provider and below them is Verizon’s Terremark. nFollowing this trend, company’s phones and mobile devices will begin getting even smaller as the device’s necessity for on-board hard computational speed and power are no longer needed. As connection speeds continue to increase, so too will the computational power that can be sent over the cloud to client’s mobile devices. In no time at all it isn’t unlikely that robots with connections to large cloud computation servers that fill large warehouses will be able to access a whole universe of information and power in the blink of an eye. It is precisely these types of technological advancements that are turning Kurzweil’s theories into real applicable ideas that aren’t so unbelievable to be seeing on tomorrow’s market. n
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