Well, it does! The world is changing every second: life and death... but we (I mean human beings) started the technological advancements and its monstrous change is inevitable. It is amazing how fast it is evolving.
I went to the Bruce Mau speech last month and he mentioned the technological changes we're experiencing are the advancements for more than thousands of years... Our technology is advancing double every 12 months, so doubling the double... I can't even imagine how our world would be in 5 years time.
The video "Did you know" shows a very small section of how our world is changing and almost controlled by technology. Amazing how it showed long it took us (humans) to reach 50 million people with radio (38 years), Tv (15 years), Internet (4 years), iPod (3 years), and Facebook (just 2 years). This is the "doubling the double" effect that Mau mentioned. Wow.
The video also mentions that by the time it's 2045, we (humans) would have built a supter computer that exceeds the intelligence of the whole human race! Now that's just depressing. We wouldn't need to exist anymore! Our whole planet would be run by computers, we'd be slaves and servants to the computers... It's like a horrible sci-fi movie.
Though that might be the worst case scenario, I feel that as technology is advancing, we are choosing to live as if back in the good-old-days. More and more people are living minimally, growing their own food, and making things for themselves... But from a design point of view, since technology will be advancing so much that computers (not designers using computers) will be making such extraordinary things that designers are not needed anymore, handmade/handcrafted items will be more valuable and treasured in later years.
Can computer really outsmart us? Maybe, and you could say it already is. But good design is not just the initial pleasing aesthetics, a design is good also when the concept/idea behind it is good. Can computers one day develop concepts and ideas (in other words, think)? I don't know.
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