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Nature has a series of news features and commentaries looking at how tomorrow’s computer technology will change the face of science.
The stories are all going live on news@nature.com at midnight tonight, and will be gathered in a web focus on Wednesday. Have a look!
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Comments
Yes It is sure that in future computing technology will be on the top but main focus will be human brain .Computer will assist brain so man would be able to use his brain with its maximum capability as Einstine used .
Dr.Rakesh Trivedi
Department of zoology
PMB Gujarati Science College
INDORE(M.P.)
INDIA
Posted by: Dr.Rakesh Trivedi | March 23, 2006 02:32 AM
send me the reserch of computer
Posted by: arun | March 23, 2006 04:29 AM
No
Posted by: Junseok Park | March 23, 2006 05:13 AM
Hey man I think quantum computing is gonna be big. I'm going to put a quantum computer in my brain to make up for all the brain functionality I've lost from drug abuse. It will be expensive, but worth it.
Posted by: Bob Tome | March 24, 2006 02:41 AM
Two most important utilizations of new computing power can be proposed
1-Body function models , disease progress model, simulated treatment, all at cellular level can make it possible to have real time diagnosis and treatment solutions for patients at cellular level, attacking the disease progress in real time and at the initial dimension.
Posted by: giorgio gaviraghi | March 24, 2006 09:27 AM
For me, the evolving ability to understand how the Brain and other body systems [endocrine, immune, etc.] work will help us focus on, and respond to, previously unrecognized drivers of many "abnormal" behaviors.
Hopefully, the research-enriched future will bring a reduction in the use of simplistic labels like "perversion", or "choosing to behave badly" to the unexpected responses of others. Many of these damaging and unhelpful responses could be replaced in the future by reponses that are based on better understandings of the body/brain-based predispositions that drive some, if not all of those unexpected responses.
A clear example of Brain Physiology "gone bad" was seen in recent Journal reports on the side effects of a medication for Parkinsons Disease that caused some patients to become hypersexual and to be drawn to compulsive gambling. We already know of other response patterns that are driven by Brain Physiology and Hormone/ Enzyme problems [post-partum psychosis; seizure-related explosiveness, increased math learning problems in young patients with Manic/ Depressive Disease, etc.].
More brain/body-based drivers of "abnormal" behavior and learning traits will be discovered, or defined more precisely, in our future that will see geometrically-improving research tools.
Hopefully the future will bring more opportunities to respond to each other out of knowledge and understanding, rather than out of reflexively judgemental and uninformed posturing.
Even "Bliss at Home" [for many of us] will be enhanced by our ever increasing understanding of the behavioral, emotional, and processing differences that often exist between men and women. It is much better to look at a particular annoying behavior from a "significant other" and think "That weird response is probably coming out of his/her bag of XY/XX tendencies" than it is to think or say "Why doesn't that #!^*? get a grip, grow up, and behave properly? [...like I would behave.]"
The ongoing, research-based, demystification of behavior and learning predispositions that come from family-based genetic traits, will also be helpful in improving the nature of our responses with each other. The same is true for our improving understanding of the negative physiological impacts on behavior and learning that come from people having to exist in emotionally/physically toxic environments.
The world will be a better place if we can attain more accurate expectations of each other; if we can become better non-crital observers of each other's unexpected behaviors; and if we have the tools to sharply reduce our historical tendencies to respond to each other in rapid, reflexive, self-rightious, and judgemental ways.
Heres to rigorous, and eventually compassion-driven future research.
Edward C. Gooze, Ph.D.
Biobehavioral Specialist in Communication, Learning, and Behavior
Posted by: Edward Gooze | March 27, 2006 05:33 PM
I realize that many people are either frightened of this level of computer application or uninterested. However, after following its development for numerous years now, I am very excited! I am very pleased with the medical applications that are made possible by this technology, and also by the explosion of scientific discoveries that are made possible. This will require a paradigm shift, in my opinion, and I believe that it is also inevitable. Even as America pursues it, other countries are also in the race. It is computer technology at its best integrating with scientific endeavors. I am happy to finally see the scientific community openly discussing the future of this current pursuit.
Posted by: Selena Morris | March 28, 2006 12:30 PM
>>" main focus will be human brain .Computer will assist brain so man would be able to use his brain with its maximum capability"
That's what you think!
- An anonymous computer
Posted by: A Computer | April 5, 2006 09:29 PM
Very interesting articles in this special.
Ever since the sciences grew to a point where no single person could memorize all of their theses, the question has arisen of what could be considered the knowledge that mankind "possesses". This metaphor will soon resolve to "most facts and theories are kept in databases and we know how to query them".
Posted by: Kurt Thomas | April 5, 2006 09:37 PM
How soon will nanotechnology help a friend of mine who has a serious genetic bone disease?
Posted by: Karen Mather | April 5, 2006 11:31 PM
My life's been basically bland today. More or less nothing seems worth thinking about. My mind is like an empty room. I've more or less been doing nothing to speak of. Not much on my mind recently.
Posted by: Kaka28312 | April 19, 2006 09:21 AM
Hello, being a science teacher in secondary education, I wonder how can we adapt our teaching towards future needs. For the moment education plans are in the hands of "very old" technology people and science moves very fast for them.
Posted by: Stavros Fasseas | May 9, 2006 02:37 PM
Hello,i'm very glad to find this page,I'm thinking in education how can we adapt our teaching towards future needs,we must be together with the advances of the tecnologies,with all the resolts of scientifics reserches,we must adapt our education plan to the new advances and reserches but HOW?
Posted by: akiii | June 16, 2006 04:07 PM
sir i want to know how much % of brain is used by the most intellegent person in the world. i think i will get my answer soon.
Posted by: abdullah | January 29, 2007 02:10 PM
This article is very much usefull for getting the detail of future.
Posted by: Urvin shah | February 5, 2007 03:26 PM
Yes It is sure that in future computing technology will be on the top
Posted by: ComputerFreeTIps | October 9, 2007 09:17 AM