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We have an old joke I recall! One woman purchased a computer and she calls up customer service and says that she is following the instructions but can’t get her computer to start! On further querying from the customer support guy the woman says that she has inserted a clean and uninfected disk to start up the computer. She says that she also took the trouble of washing the disk with a disinfectant soap before inserting it into the computer!

Needless to say this might be going too far, and it is a tale that is eons old in computer years! In all fairness and in keeping up with the changing times, let’s be gender neutral and say that this could have happened to a man as well!

The fact is that if you wish to maintain your computer in running shape it’s not a funny business! It’s dead serious because a PC is an investment not merely when it comes to hardware but you also stand to lose your data and files in case you don’t take care of your computer.

Let’s go ahead and take the issue head-on and see what we have to do to look after a PC

1. Consider buying a legal copy of an anti-virus anti-malware solution in case your PC doesn’t come pre-packed with one. This will keep your PC running hassle free making it less prone to crashing. It will also make your surfing experience much safer.

2. Defrag Often! Defragmenting your computer’s hard drive is something the same as trying out files, papers, and stuff on your desk and keeping it neatly organized so that you can access it easily and quickly! Defragmenting your hard drive can help in increasing the computer’s performance. If you believe your personal computer is sluggish during a period of time, then often defragging helps to increase speed.

3. Maintain your registry! The registry is a sort of meta-data about the programs and software installed on your computer. This could and does become corrupted on occasion. There are a number of third party tools that can help you to keep your window’s registry in perfect working condition. This is not a job for the faint hearted users so become familiar with the registry and the type of tools that will help maintain your registry free of bloating. If uncertain, ask a technician or an educated user.

4. Ensure that it stays clean! Keep your PC inside a clean area that’s not vulnerable to dust! This is particularly important in the case of a laptop. Not merely will your laptop feel better whenever you clean it regularly, you will also feel better when you use it!

5. Backup! Backup! Backup! In spite of everything that we do, accidents do happen and hard disks do crash! To be on the safe side keep a backup of all of your files and save them on a USB drive or a DVD/CD once in a while!

Following these basic rules can help to make your computing experience safe and fun! Happy computing!

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A science fiction story I once read from a while told the story of a group of scientists who created a supercomputer that was more intelligent than human beings. A scientist could type a question into the supercomputer, which would instantaneously answer with the correct answer. One night, 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 disturbing reply: “There wasn’t 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 these days, whether it is a laptop or a smart phone. In fact, they are so common that despite the fact that you didn’t have access to the Internet just a relatively short time ago, you probably take it for granted today. But will a computer ever be as smart, or even more intelligent than a human being?

It seems far fetched to think about. The human brain is so complex and amazing. 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. But the brain is in fact so amazing 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 think about a chair. How do you define a chair anyway? Something with four legs and a seat? Something you sit on? Couldn’t a table then technically 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 uses something called top down processing. A computer couldn’t 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 nowadays. That is because in this case, the computer can utilize top down processing, while a human chess expert can only recognize simple patterns in the game. When you compete with a computer at chess, it enters the game with an entire tree of knowledge of every move that could be made, and every counter move. We like to think we are superior to computers, yet we have programmed computers to be able to 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 the last article of this series I described technological singularity, which is a prediction that technology will eventually progress so rapidly that the future will be unimaginably different than it is nowadays. 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 expanding its intelligence seems like it might be a long way off in the future, but there are many ways that scientists can do this even today. After all, in laboratories, it is fairly simple for scientists to genetically modify mice. Granted, they are only mice, but genetic modification of the human brain could be an option in the future. Then there are nootropic drugs, which are drugs, supplements and foods that have the ability to improve mental functions. Refer to the field of psychopharmaceuticals if you do not believe that these exist.

Direct brain-computer interfaces exist, which are basically direct communication pathways between a brain and an external device. Monkeys have been able to control robotic arms simply by using their brains! One final example is mind uploading, which scientists are exploring now. This is the process of scanning a biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system. If this ever came about this would mean immortality for anyone who wanted 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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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 drawing near. First of all, some people believe that no computer or machine will ever be capable of being as smart 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 extremely fascinating argument against technological singularity is a survey of patents per thousand persons over the course of the years. The number of patents has 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 theory of technological singularity or not, there is no denying that it is indeed a very intriguing idea to think about. 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 think about it for a minute, it’s hard not to agree with exponential growth. Think about how 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 hasn’t changed in any major way for millennia. Keeping in mind the increasing power of technologies and computers, it no longer seems so far fetched that a machine could be built that is smarter than human beings. In theory, if it were possible for humans to construct 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?

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You may have seen many people using small, hand held digital organizers. The Palm Pilot PDA is a popular device that can help people record important data and scheduling information in a highly portable and easy to access format. Learning more about the product will help you decide whether it is something you need to have.

In the early days, the Palm Pilot was truly revolutionary. It allowed users to enter their contact information, schedule appointments and record tasks. Managing your time was much easier since you could break a project down into tasks and schedule them so you stayed on track. You wrote directly on the screen using a modified version of hand writing. The stylus, a plastic pencil that was pointed but not sharp was used to enter information although you could also upload information from your computer as well.

Even though the earliest screens were monochrome and there was no speaker and limited memory, the company had set the bar for easy to use functionality that users adored. They loved the icons and the fact that you were able to modify the look somewhat by ordering the icons and setting specific user profiles that only showed specific applications. Because they were so popular, it was not wonder that the systems and devices evolved as quickly as they did and added color screens, more memory, memory expansion slots and even speakers in some models.

Now, when most people see a PDA they simply assume it is a Palm. This is not the case. There are many different models of PDA which use the Palm operating system but there is also the Pocket PC. Although these look very similar in some cases, the operating system and the device’s capabilities are quite different. A Pocket PC actually uses Windows CE, a modified version of the same operating system full-sized computers utilize. The name “pocket PC” is a very accurate way to describe these units since they have many of the same capabilities of a full sized computer. The range of documents and files that they are able to open and work with is quite lengthy and many professionals who are working on the go may find that they prefer the Pocket PC because of its range of functions.

It is up to you which device you will choose. Both have the capacity to increase your organizational abilities and access important information quickly and efficiently. Because you can take a small digital device with you it can replace many of the paper items in your bag or briefcase and can keep you from being weighed down while keeping you informed at the same time.

Getting used to using your PDA may take a little while. You will find that if you use Windows on your computer that the feel of a pocket PC is very familiar. This may make it easier for you to get up to speed quickly. However the Palm has an operating system which is incredibly simple. This is one of its main selling points along with a lower price point in many cases.

How you use your PDA will depend greatly on the model you purchase and the capabilities it has. Consider how helpful it will be to download any files you need to review and looking them over during your commute. When you are using the scheduling and task software, you can also assign different clients or projects unique colors and break the larger project down into smaller tasks. This can help you keep them on schedule and prevent you from feeling overwhelmed by the larger scope of the work you are doing.

A Palm or other PDA can be a great tool if you are willing to learn the system. It can help you visualize individual project components and keep important work on track. Being able to have a complete and accurate information about your clients is a great benefit to anyone who is dealing with people on the road. Try one today and see how they can assist you.

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In this day and age, computers can be found in almost every aspect of your life. They can range from being a component in your car to how you earn your living and the entire world seems to be connected by the Internet in one way, shape or form. One of the easiest and most convenient ways to keep up with this form of connectivity is by owning one of the new small laptops that seem to be everywhere.

These small laptops or “netbooks” as they are sometimes called can take the place of a much larger desktop or even a standard laptop for day to day use. Their smaller size allows them to be used almost anywhere which can be quite convenient while travelling on a bus or plane. There is no need to have a special case for them or a large amount of accessories to operate them.

Their size lets them fit in a handbag or bookbag with ease and add very little extra weight to be dealt with. Small laptops such as these are the perfect accessory for the mom on the go or the college student with enough to lug around already without adding more weight to an already full backpack. Their portability is only enhanced by the built in wireless capability allowing for use almost anywhere that service is available.

The software to run these small laptops comes preloaded and they are ready to use right out of the box. Depending on your intended use, the hard drive may be chosen for its size in many different models but the norm is around 2 GB. This also goes for the memory and processor speed, making these quite customizable before purchase.

These small laptops have taken staying connected well beyond the level of the standard cell phone. They each come equipped with a microphone and video camera to allow the user to video chat. There is no limit to the amount of things that may be done with this as opposed to a cell phone particularly the fact that the battery runs longer than in a phone and there is simply no phone equipped for video chat.

There are a few things to be wary of when looking to purchase one of these. The battery life in some of the models can be quite low and they will need to be recharged frequently or run with the cord plugged. Be sure to check the manufacturer’s specifications as they will tell you what the actual run time is on a fully charged battery.

The easiest way to compare many of these laptops is by doing a brief Internet search. This will bring all of the manufacturers and suppliers directly to you and the actual specifications for all of the different models will be listed on each of their websites. Be sure to check that the battery life is what you will need for your expected use along with the proper wireless set up that you will need for your area.

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