Futurology
Today we learned about the different ideas of futurology In this lesson we looked Fictions that had arisen before VR advanced. There were many future predictions of what VR would become. From office of books films and media. Snow Crash a book by Neil Stephenson 1992 predicted the rise of virtual communities and the importance of online identities.
We discussed education and what is said about The future of VR transforming education and whether this will cause classroom learning to become extinct. I think this is quite interesting I would predict that classroom learning will eventually become extinct as technology advances I think people will adapt to learning via AI systems and VR experiences. This will be effective as they are all many new Advancements that can help students gain better understandings to complex information. I think that students won‘t miss the old ways of learning as, they will be submersed in the new ways. I think they won‘t mind the fact that they don’t have a human teacher, as they will be more concentration on what they’re learning, especially if the method is immersive and interactive.
We learn about Moore’s laws which has been predicting exponential growth of computer power for 50 years. We explore the idea, whether tech prediction is likely to happen or not, if AI is going to become a danger or an advantage to society and if TV/ film/series predictions and perceptions are a likely source for future predictions. Today‘s class was very informative and explored some of the topics I have looking at in relation to my essay. I‘m questioning whether virtual reality is replacing or enhancing our reality and predictions can be a great warning of the dangers that may evolve in the future Prompting us to take heed to proven tech predictions and be aware what’s going on in the world.