How can computers be used to allow human beings to expand their intellectual powers?
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judging by the questions & answers on here (expand their intellectual powers) NO\nHAHAHAHAH  THAT QUESTION WAS A JOKE yes????
1100934
Computers are useful to almost everything...
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Books and the printing press. Even modern computers and the Internet are an extension of the book. Computers speed up analysis of data, but chances are you read a book about how to work a computer before you knew how to use one, even if you read the book online. Books make possible the dissemination of knowledge on a massive scale. Radio and TV still have to have scripts - another extension of the book.
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As regards future usefulness it is hard to beat Computing.\n\nBest of luck !
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This has to be really useful:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer\n\n(10 points 4 me? ;)  )
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what they did with that mouse.. was..\n\nthey were able to recognize what areas of the brain that control movements of the limbs, they had a plate of sensors inserted into a man's skull and he was able to manouver a pointer in the computer with pure thought\n\nit works only by sensing electrical impulses in specific areas of the brain. and it could one day lead to conecting fake limbs to handicapped people
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i dont think there's any way for that to happen. All computers are, are our knowledge. all we do is program them. they cant think for themselves. all they are is a bunch of 1's and 0's.
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No.  But I do think we will be able to bypass certain types of brain damage with chips (processors) implanted in the brain.  There were some tests being done on this and I can't find the link anymore (figures) but they have expirimented with linking your brain to a computer, it works... the interface is slow... but it works.  And someone who had brain damage (forget what type) is now living a fairly normal life because a chip in their brain has taken over the function of the damaged part.
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Computers let us speed up our calculations first.  Then, some very samrt people found the way to make computers help organizing, comunicating and sharing information.  In today´s world, computers are the most essential component of any organization intended to run something bigger than a house.  They are everywhere and we have become dependent on them.
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Certainly!\n\nHuman memory really isn't all that great,in terms of data bytes. \n\nFor a discussion of this, see:\n\nwww.merkle.com/humanMemory.html \n\nThough clearly it varies widely from person to person, but estimates found in the literature place it between 100 to 1000 Gigabytes. Hard drives capable of that amount of storage are available now and aren't very expensive.\n\nIt's not the amount of memory that makes humans unique from machines, it's their ability to learn, reason and process data, usually called "intelligence".  \n\nNow, if you ask, can we create a machine with "intelligence" like humans? That's more difficult, but I believe that within the next ten or twenty years machines will come along that have a very low IQ. \n\nA scientist who first explored this possibility from a theoretical standpoint was an Englishman named Alan Turing. He conceived what became known as the "Turing Machine" and attempted to describe how it would work.  As a result, he helped create the first computers back in the 1930's and '40's. You might want to read some of his papers.\n\nGood question!
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I think there's no limit to how quickly kids will learn to use and master the computer.  I just hope there will be more tools available to help them grow their minds with them, and not just pacify them with games.\n\nWith proper encouragment, kids will be able to more quickly learn essential skills like programming, graphic design and networking skills that will make them the next generation of innovators.  It can also obviously aid them in developing more quickly in whatever other field of interest they may have.\n\nThe obvious challenge is to create software that mimics games while teaching kids important concepts.  Hand/eye coordination isn't enough; they have to start to use their minds in a more critical and creative fashion.  The software that can do that will have really achieved something for them, as well as for the rest of us.
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Matrix?  What about Terminator?!  I always laugh when people say how can computers take over?  Our children take over from us - and we taught them everything they know... Why isn't it possible?  If you can teach a computer to have original thought (and why isn't that possible if a human can do it, and computers have processors like our brains) then I don't see why they wouldn't rebel.\nYeah gotta love those animatrix cartoons.  They rock. Very scary though.
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AI can enable miracles of the future. We will be able to talk and converse with computers. Robots will help elders and maybe even play some games with them. They will have emotions like love, and sense of touch.\n\nSuper fast processors are needed for even trivial "human like" qualities. It is extremely complex to mimic the human brain and efforts like genetic algorithms, neural networks and fuzzy logic will help in getting us close.\n\nEven online robots that make suggestions to us for movies we should go and clothes we should wear depending on our location. Cell phones that decide which call to take @ what time depending on our relationship with people which may in turn be decided by people we chat/email.\n\nIt can get really complex really fast! AI is an active area of research and there are very few problems that have been solved 100%
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Yes.  The human mind is just an incredibly complex computer which can manufacture it's own connections.  All we need to do is get the software and hardware sides of our current technology up to the level of our brains and beyond...  Easier said than done, I know.
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we cant as we are all just tainted monkeys. If we could mentally join with each other and see the world through other eyes then we might stand a chance but as of now we cannot, maybe we could find a way for technology to help us mentally connect a bit like we are doing on the internet now. I bet a hundred years ago no one saw the internet coming and who knows maybe in another hundred mental wet wired plug ins for the whole family courtesy of microsoft.
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Actually, the brain uses electrical AND chemical messages.  I believe this is one of the reasons the brain is able to acheive such complexity of operation.  Computers are not currently capable of that same complexity, and my theory is that the computers are limited by the fact they use ONLY electrical data.  By combining electical and chemical messages, the computing capabilities are expanded exponentially.  No source for this.  It's just my personal hypothesis.
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"Humans Think Computers Work" -- A quote on Computers.\n\nIsn't it self explanatory\n\nhttp://www.futureaccountant.com/\n\nhttp://www.schoolingkids.com/