Guest Speaker

Posted by: Matt Everett

Mike Liebhold gave an intriguing presentation about the future and how we can better understand ways to change and expand current technology. He lived up to his extensive background through his presentation and had a lot of key insights on ways to forecast what the future will be like. It was enthralling how we can take different concepts and apply them to work around our lives and have technology better understand us as individuals. Right now machines do what we tell them to do, but from his presentation the future seems as if it will be dedicated to having machines revolve around us and our feelings.
After his lecture it made me realize how advanced our society will be in such a short amount of time. I already thought that our world of technology was so advanced but after the presentation it made me realize how technology is in the beginning stages of the life cycle.

Part of me believes that these changes in technology are great for society but another part feels that we might be putting our social skills at risk. Part of life is exploring for ourselves and learning from past experiences and if machines start to do all the work, then we will never be able to learn new things about ourselves. These types of changes in technology would have a devastating effect on people that are born around these times. They will be brought into a world that is not an “ideal” setting and can cause long term social effects. At the same time I think it is great to see our world grow and it just reminds me that anything is possible if we put our minds to it.