Sample Essay On Reading Response For The Chapter Three Titled “The Curve” Of The Book “Radical Evolution” By Joel Garreau

“The Curve” by Joel Garreau seems to be very confusing when the reader first starts to read it because of its title that makes an impression of some boring unintelligible story that baffled you beginning like a fairy tale and continuing like a non-fiction plot. It is hard to figure out what that king-peasant thing and the curve have actually in common. In such extraordinary way, the author provides the reader with thoughts about the future of human kind within the technological progress that is making great strides now. The chapter is about possible human evolution that is reflected in the curve, which gives reader the understanding of the processes that may occur in technologies: genetics, robotics, information and nanotechnology in the next fifteen years. On that point appears the most intriguing and sophisticated question – how will it influence the entire society? Will it cure all the diseases and bring people to a new level of evolution or will it destroy life on the earth and create some new post-human world ruled by artificial intellect?
When the reader deeps in the chapter and finds out the Moor’s Law which says; “The power of information technology will double every 18 months for as far as the eye can see”, it becomes obvious that it is really happening right now. From one point, the technological progress may modify human’s nature creating more intelligent, well physically developed human beings, but from the other point, it can be used to abuse the progress creating some sportsmen or soldiers with super abilities, because people cannot predict if they are capable of controlling the new inventions and using them just in a positive way.
Vernon Vinge believes in the idea of Singularity that describes the unpredictable social changes driven by the Curve, facilitate machines to rule the world and the only thing that encouraged him is that “machines might still need us to change their batteries and tend to their networks for a very long time”. According to Vinge it would be better if it took a long time to happen and the way we can prove it is happening now is that “we will see automation replacing higher and higher level jobs”.
Analyzing all the details given above I came to conclusion that everything points out that technological progress will take place in the nearest future and brings us many unexpected surprises – good or bad no one knows, but a lot depends on people. Like every human being I do not want to be destroyed by human’s creation, that is why we need to use wisely all our inventions, so it would not happen like for example with the A-bomb. I guess there is no exact answer for the question if this technological progress is for saving us from ourselves or for destroying. However, the 2030 year is not so far away, so let us just live our lives until we get the answer.