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A bad operating laptop adds to your frustration for many times. You must be dealing with some irritating problems like, it getting hanged up all the time and the Browser’s speed is too slow to upload or open the file as promptly as you want it to be.

Second problem might be with sorting out a document on MS Word but the speed of the indicator remains slow doesn’t matter how fast you type. Surely, you need to get to know the ways to improve the performance.

The initial and important step is to keep it away from dust. Good casing on your laptop would be helpful in order to get it worked better. Accretion of dirt and dust in the fan of CPU that keeps it cool, may stop its proper functioning that would lead to other problems.

The methods of dealing with your laptop in holding and placing it matter a lot. Products like laptops are delegate devices that should be dealt with great care. Never dine in front of your computer as food may stick in keys to spoil other functions as well.

Other electrical products must be kept away from your laptop because their magnetic field can damage the system. The front screen of the laptop should always be cleaned and remember dusting before using the system.

Always shift your important files to the outer floppy. This will add an extra space that would be helpful to the memory to work fast and free.

Applications of daily usage must be upgraded regularly whereas the unused programs and dump applications got be deleted instantly because they are also those elements that harm the operations of the system.

In the conclusion, utilize the computer defrag option. System should start working faster after we defrag the disk that improves the performance of the laptop. Above mentioned tips will aid you to get better the work of your laptop.

Besides laptops, the writer also regularly gives advice on wireless intercom systems and home solar panels.

In the last article of this series I wrote about technological singularity, which is a theory that technology will eventually advance so quickly that the future will be unimaginably different than it is today. I mentioned the fact that it is very possible that in the distant (or not so distant) future, a computer might be built that could outsmart a human being! So if the singularity may be looming in the future, how would human beings get over that initial first hurdle of creating a computer that is smarter than humanity? Theorists reason there are two ways: amplifying the intelligence of human brains until we are smart enough to come up with this computer, and artificial intelligence.

Taking a human brain and increasing its intelligence seems like it may be a long way off in the future, but there are a number of ways that scientists can do this even today. After all, in laboratories, it is pretty easy for scientists to genetically modify mice. Granted, they are just mice, but genetic modification of the human brain could be an option for the future. Then there are nootropic drugs, which are drugs, supplements and foods that have the capacity to improve mental functions. Refer to the field of psychopharmaceuticals if you don’t believe that these are around.

Direct brain-computer interfaces are in existence, which are, simply put, direct communication pathways between a brain and an external device. Monkeys have been capable control robotic arms just by utilizing their brains! One last example is mind uploading, which scientists are looking into now. This is the process of scanning a biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system. If this ever came to fruition this could mean immortality for anyone who chose to have their minds uploaded. Their consciousness would remain in the realm of the internet long after their biological bodies have died.

Then we return to the notion of artificial intelligence, in which smarter and smarter computers keep on being designed by humans until we have a computer that is smart enough to design another computer that is smarter than itself. Theoretically, every computer that is smarter will design an even smarter computer, until they have outsmarted human beings.

Either way, it seems as though we are approaching the point of a very intelligent, self programming computer soon. Currently, there are a number of computers who are responsible for making very important decisions regarding the human race. The United States Navy lets us know that as military robots become more complex, we should give more attention to the ramifications of their capacity to make autonomous decisions. Military robots potentially hold the lives of other people in their hands, and yes, they do make their “own” decisions. Many people feel that the leaps and bounds that we are already making with Artificial Intelligence should include an effort to make AI friendly and humane. It is definitely worth considering! To be continued in the next article, “What Happens After Humans Design A Computer That Can Outsmart Them?

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A science fiction novel I once read from a while back described a group of scientists who put together a supercomputer that was more intelligent than humans. Anyone could type a question into the supercomputer, which would instantaneously answer with an accurate answer. One day, a scientist was working late in the lab alone. He typed the question “Is there a god?” into the supercomputer. Without hesitation, the supercomputer gave its alarming reply: “There was not a god, but there is one now.”

Computers have come a long way from back in the day when a single computer could easily take up the space of an entire room. Almost everyone has one, whether it be a laptop or a smart phone. They are so common, in fact, that even though you didn’t have access to the Internet just a relatively short time ago, you most likely take it for granted today. But will a computer ever be as smart, or even smarter than a human being?

When you think about it, it might seem far fetched. The human brain is so amazing and complex. Just think about the hundreds of thousands of things it is doing at this moment. Quick!! Think about your foot. I bet before I mentioned your foot, you weren’t consciously thinking about it. Yet your brain was completely aware of your foot, and everything that was going on with it. However, the brain is in actuality so smart that it doesn’t bother you with all of its minute details. Only if you were to hurt your foot would the shooting pain would suddenly be very noticeable.

Now focus on the idea of a chair. How do you define a chair anyway? Something you sit on? Something with four legs and a seat? Technically then, couldn’t a table fit the definition of a chair? But that’s a table, not a chair, right? And don’t chairs come in all shapes and sizes, like bean bag chairs or those crazy ergonomic chairs? So when you see a chair, how does your brain recognize that you are looking at a chair? It utilizes something called top down processing. A computer could not do that. To program a computer to be able to recognize a chair, you’d have to plug in every possible definition of a chair into the thing, while your brain can do the work in half a second.

But think again. Computers can beat chess experts pretty easily these days. That’s because in this case, the computer can use top down processing, while a human chess expert can only recognize simple patterns in the game. When you play a computer at chess, it enters the game with an entire wealth of knowledge of every move that could be made, and every counter move. We like to believe we are superior to computers, but we have programmed computers to be capable of recognize most of human speech. Think about how long it takes to teach a human baby to learn to talk, and all the work it entails. Now compare that with the amount of time it takes a computer to download some speech recognition software off of another computer. To be continued in the second article of this set, “Technological Singularity and Exponential Growth.

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In this set of articles I wrote about technological singularity. This theory claims that advances in technology start very slowly at first, then accelerate faster and faster. Eventually, technology will progress so quickly that the future will be completely unimaginable and different than it is today. Proponents of this theory say that change is occurring so rapidly in today’s day and age that by 2024 there will be computers out there that are just as intelligent and capable of the human brain!

Of course, not everyone believes that the singularity is a feasible prediction. First of all, a number of people feel that no computer or machine will ever be capable of being as intelligent as a human being in the first place. Others argue with the theory of exponential growth, that in actuality, the rate of technological innovation is actually now declining rather than rapidly increasing. Some critics don’t dispute that there is exponential growth, but feel as though it is not an adequate predictor of change. They are quick to point to the example of quantum theory. The quantum was conceived in 1900, and theory existed and was accepted around twenty five years later. But it took more than forty years to yield any meaningful numbers from the theory.

One very interesting argument against technological singularity is a study of patents per thousand persons over the course of the years. The number of patents actually peaked in the years from 1850-1900, and has been on the decline since. The critics that adhere to this philosophy argue that as complexity grows, the more limited things become, and humans are growing less and less creative as a result. So the prospect of human beings designing a supercomputer seems slim to none from this stance.

Finally, critics specifically find problems with the main proponent of the singularity theory Ray Kurzweil’s chart of progress. Kurzweil bases his theory that technology is growing faster and faster on these charts. In his book “The Singularity is Near” Kurzweil publishes fifteen charts of the history of human evolution from various experts and sources, which all point to the idea that change occurs slowly at first, then grows faster as the gaps between moments of progress get smaller and smaller. Some critics say that a chart that is set up like this is simply biased towards proving what he sets forth to claim, others say that many of the early evolutionary events on these charts appear to be chosen arbitrarily.

Whether you agree with the idea of technological singularity or not, there is no denying that it is indeed a very fascinating concept to ponder. Are computers the next step in evolution? Is it simply typical human hubris to believe that we will always be on the top of the food chain? These are all ideas that will become more and more prevalent as the years go by and technology progresses.

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In layman’s terms, technological singularity is a theory that technology will accelerate at an unbelievably fast pace, so fast that the future will be unpredictable, unimaginable, and completely different than the way things are today. Of course there is much more to it, but this set of articles is just an introduction.

In his book “The Singularity is Near,” Ray Kurzweil argues that technological progress follows a pattern of exponential growth. That means that technological growth is multiplied, rather than just added. In a nutshell, exponential growth means that progress starts out slowly, then slowly gets faster. The progress gets multiplied by further progress, which hurls advancement into an extremely fast pace. The more time that goes by, the faster things change.

History teaches us an important lesson about exponential growth. The economy roughly doubled every 250,000 years from the Paleolithic era until the Neolithic Revolution after some type of technological innovation. After this, agricultural economy started to double every 900 years. In today’s day and age, after the technology that came with the Industrial Revolution, the world’s economic output doubles every fifteen years.

That’s a remarkable increase! If you just ponder it for a minute, it is difficult not to agree with exponential growth. Consider the rate at which much technology accelerates in a year today, and compare that to how much technology accelerated in any year in the 1950’s.

Yet although technology seems to be getting faster and faster, humans can’t seem to keep up. After all, although the human brain has evolved, it has not changed in any significant way for millennia. Bearing in mind the increasing power of technologies and computers, it no longer seems so far fetched that a machine could be built that is more intelligent than human beings. In theory, if it were possible for humans to build a machine that had better problem solving skills than humans, and was more intelligent, then this machine could take it upon itself to design an even smarter machine. Then if this smarter machine was built, it could design a machine even smarter than itself, and so forth and so on. To be continued in the next article of this set, “How Could Humans Build A Computer That Is Smarter Than Them?

Mallory Megan works for Rapid Recovery Solution and writes articles on medical collection agencies.