Space Race Evolution

When the earth began there was no life, it was a world of fire and oceans of lava, after thousands of year’s life began in the ocean and soon came onto land. The land creatures developed into dinosaurs which ruled the world for thousands of years until a meteor wiped them out and a great ice age came. Once the ice age ended monkeys came and from them humans. We have been around for two thousand years and now we have created artificial intelligence which is becoming more and more integrated into our ever increasingly complicated world to make it simpler but have humans also created the next cycle of evolution? The AI Revolution is on by Steven Levy is about Artificial intelligence (AI). Levy writes about how the AI came around and how it affects our daily life. Levy explains impeccably how its developers strayed away from imitating human intelligence, and how it is integrated into our society.

Walking, that’s the original mode of transportation. The only things that could be moved are the things that can be carried and the furthest part of the world was the furthest part a human could walk to. Then came sailboats and wheels and the world was drastically changed forever. Everything changed. No one could walk on water so sailboats were the first things used to travel the rest of the world. There was more land and more water than anyone man could walk to. Sailboats helped with that. When someone arrives in those places how is he or she supposed to carry everything? That is when the wheel became so important. People had carriages and wagons and animals to pull those things which are on wheels. The entire world changed as transportation

The Space Race was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to see which nation could achieve spaceflight dominance before the other. The Race began on August 2, 1955 and ended nearly 40 years later in December of 1991. The Space Race began because of two major factors that would carry it until its end. The Soviet Union’s announcement that they were going to began building and using satellites to use in space days before the United States planned to announce the same thing helped fuel the fire for the competition. The Cold War also played a very influential role in the competitiveness between the countries and would inspire them to be better and work harder than their rival. The general public also played a key role in the race. Reinforcing your country’s involvement in the race gave them the all clear to spend money to build these space crafts, satellites and other technology in order to not only win, but to please the people. If a country has the support of its people they can accomplish anything. Propaganda like posters became a great way of encouraging the people to get involved and stay involved. Posters depicted great spaceships only seen in movies, engrained a hatred for the opposing country, the influence the race had on the future, and astronauts as real life superheroes like Superman. Most importantly the Space Race was a time of great inventions that carry on to

I created this piece to further elaborate on the book’s main premise of the lack of support for our space program in our current age. Before I touch on that we have to touch on our origins. We as a race have lived as pioneers exploring the earth and colonizing any new place we could find. It all started in the fertile crest in the middle east. They ventured forth and spread across the earth. Then came the period of stagnation where no exploration was happening and the space race started. We went back to our roots as pioneers exploring beyond the bounds of our small blue planet. America as a whole was the economic powerhouse of the age and the space race caused our education standards to be raised as a whole leading to a greater nation. However,

Designing and decorating a room is giving it a sense of purpose and personality. In the sixties, this became about capitalising on the influence of the Space Race, which right from its ‘infancy’ was having an observable impact on culture and art. It brought with it a growing appetite for what was considered to be the cutting edge of technological and human advancement. It is agreed that it was in the architectural landscape of the West’s cities that this shift was most noticeable. They were updated with ‘upswept winglike roofs, domes, satellite shapes and starbursts that became the dominant visual language of motels, diners and gasoline stations’. It is for this reason that Colombo’s apartments were as contained as spacecraft and I feel contextualises something of the general climate that lead to the chrome dipped Factory itself being a rather futuristic ‘spillover from the silvery streamlining of the space program’. For Warhol, for whom the now was paramount, working from somewhere that so greatly embraced innovation would have been integral. (Kennedy, 2007)

Before diving into these mythical theories proposed by those who doubt the clear evidence, a brief history of the Space Race is in order. Fueled by collective nationalism, determination, and a hefty nationally funded budget, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (modern day Russia) pioneered the space race in the late 1950’s as a major vocal point for the communist country to try and prove its superior technology, military firepower and thriving political-economic system during the Cold War flex against the United States of America. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, any country’s, or any human for that matter, first artificial satellite into space. Less than two years later, the U.S.S.R. released Luna 2,

In 1986 U.S and the SSR were in Space race and the Soviets were wining. They were step ahead of U.S space program, the fear that if the Soviets could send satellites to space they may well have the technology to lunch nuclear weapon too was becoming reality. On the American side something had to happen, something big that would change the world and end the space race. Seven years earlier in 1961 then president Kennedy made an announcement about America’s willingness to land a person on the moon and bring him back save. That promise was fulfilled 1969. But the event that took place year earlier had brought Americas’ promise to land on the moon almost to a

AI is able to be used efficiently, and safely if we shape the nurturing of the machines, "If we understood exactly what the potentials are, then we’d have a much better grip on how to sculpt it toward ends that we find desirable," (Hamblin). The only way to stop calamity, is to shape the nurturing of the creations in order for them to treat humans kindly, and fairly, unlike Victor’s

Scientist believed the human race began approximately 195,000 years ago, but what they seem to forget is it was reborn in the 19th century and created the age of technology. While some would argue that technology has led the competence of the human race backwards towards the stone-ages, technological advancements in history by engineers have allowed the establishment of a world that is truly modern and interconnected by power, communication and transportation. In the beginning, humans would have to rely on themselves and the sun for power and light, respectively. Additionally, humans were limited to the number and strength to accomplish tasks such as hunting, building homes, and providing other necessities for themselves and their families.

The countdown to Singularity consists of six epochs. Epoch 1 is physics and chemistry – where we gain information in atomic structures. Epoch 2 is Biology, where we received information in deoxynucleic acid. The fourth epoch is Technology, during which we gained information in hardware and software designs. Epoch 5 is the merger of human technology with human intelligence. The Singularity will begin with the fifth epoch. “The fifth epoch will enable our human-machine civilization to transcend the human brain’s limitations of a mere hundred trillion extremely slow

Vernor Vinge states, “I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans ' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.” Technological singularity is on the verge of having a massive breakthrough but are we ready for what it brings? Raymond Kurzweil, an American author, believes that singularity will emerge in 2045. Technological singularity is an event in which artificial intelligent machines go beyond human intelligence and have the possibility to redesign themselves. Scientific development and enhancement is in our daily lives. The concept of creating intelligent machines was almost deemed impossible but in the last decade, researchers and scientists have shown beyond doubt that creating intelligent machines is possible. These artificial intelligent machines produce potential benefits and problems in the biomedical engineering field, a field where scientists should not continue to work to on due to the dangers this field poses.

In the article “Toward an Intelligence Beyond Man’s” Robert Jastrow, a published writer and the first director of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, focuses on the idea that in order for mankind to continue to grow in intelligence our life form may vary from the structure we know today, resulting in artificial life, or in other terms, computers. Jastrow was involved in NASA and was able to win many awards in his field such as the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal. Jastrow writes his article as a prediction of what the twenty-first century artificial intelligence will evolve into over the years. However, his prediction contains many faults and easily disagreeable subject matter.

A few short decades past, a fraction of a second in relation to the birth of our universe and solar system, many people spent much of their sunset times, and the dark hours that followed, not with an illuminated screen - televisions, smart phones, or computers connected to the internet - but instead gazing skyward toward the moon, planets, and stars, connecting the dots into pictures, and associating some celestial sightings with various deities or occurrences of phenomena here on Earth. Constellations and celestial events played an important part in the development of civilization, and various astronomical events and observations were written into both historical and religious texts.

Today, we are dependent on technology for the most trivial things in life, from talking to our friends over texts or calls and using our smartphones to click & edit pictures. There are several technological advancements happening throughout the world & one cannot just limit himself. It is obviously for out betterment & ease. But as we all know that there are a numerous advantages of everything new that happens, so are the disadvantages. In this world so advanced through the help of technology, we are just one click behind to the door of any unsolved mystery. One can begin by the fact that technology evolves so much faster relatively to human beings. Speaking frankly, it is so fast that from the technological point of view, human beings don 't evolve at all. We are just heading to a robotic generation where technology will lead us to a better world, but machine driven.

One might think humankind should just stop furthering any type of technology that is currently being created, what for, humans already know AI will rule the population. While the latter is true, as Sam Harrison, a neuroscientist focusing on the change in the world and how this changes human’s ways of thinking, states “we won’t stop updating our technology”. How will the human species evolve if technology stops getting smarter? Users want smarts phones, smarter televisions, smarter cars; the risk has always been there, but consumer’s demands must be meet by scientists who like money. AI will hurt the human population when least expected. This is why signs and precautions must be figured out before they actually happen.