Introduction
Computing focused on people who changed the nature of technology at pivotal points after 1945. Due to its advancement, it gained access to new markets, uses, and a new social status. The model is the message in a modern industrialized civilization that has become accustomed to dissecting and splitting everything as a control mechanism. Rather than the system itself, how an individual perceives and communicates a message orally or through digital media platforms determines its significance. Due to the evolving world, computing, information, communication, and digital media will undergo various changes in 2050.
Computing and Digital Media
Eckert and Mauchly were the first to make the necessary computing changes in 1945. They transformed a pricy and delicate scientific instrument, similar to a cyclotron, into a commodity that could be mass-produced and marketed in modest quantities. “International Business Machines Corporation” (IBM) created a succession of systems in the mid-1950s to meet the information-handling needs of American enterprises (Ceruzzi 30). Alumni from MIT is Project Whirlwind transformed the computer into an interactive device that could be used to supplement intellectual activity a decade later. It was turned into a personal appliance by hobbyists and enthusiasts in the mid-1970s. It went from being a bespoke hardware portion to a consistent user product categorized by its present commercialized software. It underwent yet another transition in the 1990s as a global nexus agent and a communications medium. Hence, in 2050, computing will undergo several transformations, including more user-friendly features.
Any channel represents personal and interpersonal evolution due to each stretch’s current dimension or digital innovation. The negative outcome of socialization is that it tends to remove employment in the case of automation. Positively, automation creates jobs for humans, allowing them to be more productive at work and participate in human contact previously unattainable and vulnerable to technological advancements. However, automation tools through the internet negatively impact individuals’ thinking capacities (Carr para. 3). Most individuals spend a lot of time surfing and searching on digital media platforms, which has presented various challenges to the brain (La Farge para. 5). Therefore, in 2050, digital media and computing will be adopted by various people, and the vast majority will be conducting their research online rather than researching using physical surveys and interviews.
The majority of individuals feel that the significance of a message is determined by what one does with it rather than by the system itself. It did not matter whether the robot created cornflakes or Cadillacs regarding how technology affected relationships. The fragmentation process, which is at the heart of machine technology, molded the restructuring of human work and association. The automation technique is based on the polar opposite and is integrated and decentralist, similar to how the machine structure human interactions. The purest information is electric light, but the railway never introduced movement, conveyance, wheels, or infrastructures into human civilization. It augmented and prolonged the scope of previously performed human roles, ensuing in totally new municipalities, employment, and freedom opportunities (McLuhan 9). In 2050, digital media and computing will establish more transportation mediums that will ease the movement of people, such as more complex and fast railways.
Communication and Information
The intended message could be conveyed by written or verbal words, cinemas, tunes, and other media. Levels A, B, and C are the three communication levels, representing the practical, semantic, and effectiveness levels, respectively (Shannon 4). The teller converts a gesture, which is then directed from the origin to the intended person via the communication channel. The network in telecommunication is a cable, and the indicator is a fluctuating electrical current. The brain is the source of information in oral communication. At the same time, the speech mechanism acts as a transmitter, generating varying sound pressure (the signal) that is sent via the air (the channel). The transmitted signal is an electromagnetic wave, and the channel is nothing more than space. The receiver works as an inverse transmitter, converting the sent signal into a message and sending it to the intended recipient (Shannon 15). As a result, in 2050, people will speak directly to their listeners rather than employing the three levels of communication.
Anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists have documented fieldwork in oral societies. Prehistory, or the period before the advent of writing and the formation of verbalized texts, has piqued the interest of cultural historians. Oral speech is the foundation of all verbal communication and the ongoing propensity, particularly among academics, to treat writing as the fundamental procedure of language. Since Saussure’s time, linguistics has progressed to more complex studies of phonemics, or how language is nested in sound. A contemporary of Saussure, Henry Sweet (1845–1912), believed that words are made of sound units, or phonemes, rather than letters. Despite their focus on speech sounds, current linguistics schools have only paid sporadic attention to how primary orality differs from literacy. Applied sociolinguistics and morphology have contrasted the central oral and printed articulation dynamics (Parks 29). By 2050, humanity will no longer need words and instead rely solely on their minds to communicate. They will communicate via a general AI consciousness built into the individual body’s structure and can expose what everyone is thinking.
Students begin to demonstrate their duties at school and are taught how to “give back to” society for its concern for them. They learn to read right away, write tomorrow, and then study, making more money due to their abilities. (Manguel 4). In 2050, people will maintain the anthropocentric projection-based belief that awareness and intelligent cognition are inextricably intertwined. However, a recent comprehensive re-evaluation of awareness’s limitations has prompted a similar broad re-evaluation of other cognitive capacities’ activities and the crucial roles in human brain processes. Not because consciousness is the totality of cognition, but because it generates (often false) narratives that make sense of existence and reinforce fundamental beliefs about global coherence, consciousness plays an essential part in people’s thinking (Ahlberg 9). Cognition is a broader skill encompassing other neurological brain functions, other life forms, complicated technical systems, and awareness.
Conclusion
In 2050, computing will experience various changes, including the addition of more consumer capabilities. Different people will accept electronic channels and computers, and the majority will study rather than through physical surveys. More communication mediums will be established due to online technology and computing. Humanity will not require languages to express and will rely on their thoughts. They will converse through a universal AI awareness integrated into the architecture of each human body, which will reveal what everybody is thinking. Literacy will be required for advancement in science and history, philosophy, interpretive knowledge of literature and art, and even linguistic explanation, as shall be seen (including oral communication).
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