The Mind behind the Machine by Marco

The Mind behind the Machine by Marco - February 2018 Scholarship Essay

Describe one advance in technology that you believe will be an integral part of education in the year 2038.

In the next 20 years I believe computers will play an instrumental role in the lives of people across the world. Computers are a recent invention growing increasingly more complex in the past decade. Computers today are used almost everywhere in peoples daily lives. They may take many forms like that of a cellphone or a printer, but they all serve the purpose to compute and transmit information. Algorithms and programs have become more and more complex. Much like the way human logic processes information computers do so in the same way. Human logic uses pathways and connections to solve arguments and reach a conclusion. A computer uses sequences of commands to carry out a desired function. A new advancement in computer technology is the work on enabling computers to be able to execute a function without explicitly being programmed, this new field is called machine learning. Many researchers are realizing that much like the way the human brain works, a computer can be built and function the same way. Development in machine learning is one advancement in technology that will be integral in the future because it has so much potential. It can be used to construct artificial intelligence or eventually used to create humanoids that are as intelligent as humans. One way or another the future will contain computers and a vast amount of digital information. Education in 2038 will respond to the worlds new demand for the expanding new technological advancement.