Unpredictable World: Singularity

From the article of Lev Grossman in "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal," suggests a whole new and unpredictable dimension of computer technology possessing a new type of development that can gravely affect the future of our humanity. Compared to the modern technology today and its past technology, it significantly proves that "computers are getting so much faster, so incredibly fast, there might conceivably come a moment when they are capable of something comparable to human intelligence" (Grossman). The most major concept of this is how this type of new technology can affect the system of our society--meaning that the results may be extremely beneficial for us humans or become a life-threatening system in the future world where humans may not even be in existence in the next 35 years. I find it quite astonishing how fairly accurate how humans can develop great theories in how technology can grow into many types of things dealt into our world as in how flying cars, touch screen devices, robots, etc. With the creation of the computer by the young Raymond Kurzweil in 1965 and the development of the new types of computers to this day is a tremendous improvement in seeing how technology can grow extremely fast within only a small period of time.
In A Brave New World, it shows how technology plays a central role in their society. This type of technology in society compared to "singularity" which is "borrowed from astrophysics: it refers to a point in space time" (Grossman 2). In the novel, babies are not born in the natural way, but developed from scientific technology and produced in test tubes. This conveys how the humans are very dependent on their technology because it helps produce more beings in an astonishing faster way. It portrays how important their type of technology is to the individuals' surroundings of the world and their society. As in singularity, it is said to happen inevitably and will gradually cause a great change to the whole world. These two types of technology share a significant comparison, they both share a great source of language to the people. To live an "authentic existence" it significantly means to live under the law or rules without living with full freedom. It gives the right for an individual to live his/her own life with a side of rules or cultural beliefs to follow. This gives a good demonstration in how technology can gravely develop into within a couple of decades into the future. It can dramatically change the perception of religious beliefs to many people based in how technology can create many things, like for example, in A Brave New World, where mostly everything is fully created from technology. I find it interesting how technology is something that we can all relate to, as in communication/language, understanding, development/growth, connection, etc. all around the world. Technology is something that is extremely difficult to avoid in our daily lives. I realized that each living day, technology is something that can be both beneficial and threatening to each one of us; it has become a sort of addiction in which cannot be brushed off so easily.

Blog 1: Article on A Midsummer Night's Dream

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, I read how Shakespeare distinguished  the creation of love is displayed as a dream-like and enchanting element in romance, by using on imagination, but contrasting it to truth and reason. This is a comparison between the book and the play. Shakespeare's motivation in creating types of fantasy-like love stories helps define and create a type of art in its own form.

Shakespeare's character, Theseus, has a character of only wanting to possess the truth and facts of life. Theseus possesses a kind of characteristic where if there is no fact or type of reason behind a certain quality of something, it cannot be proven to be placed in reality. Imagination and love, for example, plays a significant role in the acts of the play, whereas the book conveys the two dimensions of the Athens' representation of facts and the woods representing love and imagination. Theseus does not wish to possess or encounter any relinquishment of the woods with dreaming of romantic love. In Theseus' perspective, I realized how love relationships could not possibly be a type of fact or truth. It may convey sense of feelings and emotions, but it doesn't necessarily needed to become a case to be proven or solved. I think it is mainly based on how someone interprets in "imagining" love and going forth in a romantic relationship. Facts and reasons are needed to prove or be proven in life, but can just plainly be the basics in life, where Theseus has lived up to. I think love is just an interpretation of one's view and beliefs of how romance should be seen as. I realized that everyone, even Theseus himself, has their opportunity in finding, experiencing, or creating love in their own art form or even from their facts and reasons. Art and proven facts in life can still be familiar or combined in one's experience in his existence.