Gordon Moore was the creator of Moore’s law theory in 1965, which is very interesting to me because he thought that integrated circuits would change the game on how we see the pricing on electronics. Meaning that with each year or two we will see that the technology we have will become faster and better, while also decreasing the price of the devices.
Buckminster Fuller was a brilliant mind who created many things to help revolutionized the world since the 1960’s, one of his most brilliant works was the Geodesic Dome. Fuller created this structure because he has always believed that we can create things to do more with less, this structure is seen everywhere from kids’ playgrounds and then huge building in California and in Africa too.
Ray Kurzweil has the same kind of idea that Moore’s does but what Ray see’s that everything is gradually going to get better over time because we are growing as a population and getting smarter every generation almost like evolution. Ray says that with every generation is left with the past generations best ideas to work with almost as steppingstones to work and make their ideas even better and then pass it to the generation after that and so on.
Peter Thiel is the co-creator of the online banking service called PayPal and is the creator of Thiel’s Theory. Thiel has the idea that the new generation that we are in right now does not have the minds for innovation like we did in the past, which this is why we haven’t made any new things like flying cars, underwater cities, and the cure to all the different types of diseases and cancers. He also mentions that he thinks this is because of the fact that we are getting comfortable of where we are and that the children do want to be good in school but they only want to be better than their surrounding classmates rather than to try and learn everything there is to learn.
There are a few similarities and a few differences between all four of these theories that make each one unique. Some similarities between the first three theories is that our technology is only going to rise with each generation of life we have like a steppingstone for the generations to come, but while we grow our technology the price for this technology will decrease making everything less expensive. But there is also a big difference of one from all the rest which is from Peter Thiel that contradicts everything that the others are saying because he thinks that we are running out of brilliant minds and innovators because we are not challenging our children to be the best but to just be a little better than the people around them.
There are a few aspects from these four articles I looked at that really surprise me because I would have never thought of these things or looked at it in the perspective that they are. The biggest one that surprised me is Thiel when he mentions that we need to stop creating these little things and start reaching for more and exploring what we know and what we don’t know. This is true because there is so much on this Earth that we still do not know or understand, but it seems like we just have given up on exploring our boundaries because we are just comfortable where we are at as a civilization. One big this for me is that we have only discovered a very small percent of the ocean and the species in it, just imagine if we even just discover 20 percent more of that area of the world how much we would figure out about our planet.
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