Unused Textbook

From current and no current to 0's and 1's to logic gates to opcodes to algorithms and then to gui plus voice recognition, the process and power of computing gets simpler and faster every moment. I have had my experience with Fortran in AMAT 150 whence I got interested in computer programming. The ceiling is high for this kind of career path but it also requires an adequate amount of imagination and creativity. If we ever reach singularity, I imagine programmers will be considered creators or gods or at the least the artisans of them.

Technology has driven our civilization to what we see now, whether it is what we wanted individually or not. Where the technological revolutions go is also where we are headed. To name a place, I concur with Carl Sagan's view that Earth will not be our home forever. We ought to cross a 'new world ocean'. With this in mind, there is very few people I know that have this idea cross their minds. The machinery, programming, and our current understanding of the physical world made us able to create Voyager 1 and Mars rover Curiosity.

I may be out of my mind in expecting we will achieve Type I civilization before the end of the century but you won't be knocked out of your socks in surprise to hear it from me, since I'm discussing its possibility in a blog for a GE course in an undergraduate level. I fear that as every moment passes, there is knowledge that I will never be able to know or that I am playing a game I know very little of the rules of and in an instant I'm dead.

We were given the chance to evaluate the teachers and the teaching of the course last week. With much sorrow I failed to come up with the unused textbook metaphor. In my opinion, the subject being named IT 1, has the characteristics of classification-enumeration dullsville kind. I may never stop complaining but somehow the dainty little exercise on C interrupted only to get thumped by the announcement of the video project.

Now the only option left for me is to watch how everybody else cruise through the game.