21st Century and The Fate of Humanity

21^st century is the golden age for all scientific and economic developments .

Particularly the next 30 years would be very important as they have the potential to decide the Fate of Humanity .So presently we are living in the most interesting age of human history , Cheers! .

Let us explore what I mean by it .

The world population is around 7 billion and is expected to grow further in next few years .

This would increase the demand of number of personal and commercial computers and so does the amount of data that is added to the virtual data junk every year. In today's world no matter where you are , you are always surrounded by this cluster of invisible information web .

So what is the purpose and advantage of this big data web ?

Obviously to exchange information from remote computers. But this is not it , in today's economy extracting useful information out of these binary data chunks is a big challenge for humans as well as computers as there is a limit to how much computation we can perform using our modern silicon based computers .Companies use this information to improve their products and services.

Solving optimization problems is another big challenge faced by data scientists today .

To those who are unaware about it let me explain it with an example , lets say you have to travel throughout the world in all the cities and all the countries . What is the shortest route you would take so that you cover the entire journey in minimum time and your expenditure is minimum ? You have to consider hundreds of parameters like fuel cost , environmental impact , duration of stay , and many many more . This is an example of optimization problem in is a big challenge faced by computer scientists today.

Further the problem is divided into two components , first we don't have the hardware to perform these complex computations , second we don't have the perfect algorithm to solve it . In conclusion

it is the most difficult challenge accepted by us in the 21^st century .It is in fact one of the greatest challenge of computational mathematics.

Analysis and making sense out of this big data collection have an interesting application other than

profit making . If an entity can process millions of Tera bytes of data and if could actually compute it the way we want to ,our computers can predict the future . For example , weather forecast ,

computers collect satellite data of both past and present and simulate the the expected results , which are at most times correct . Think about rank analyzers , they make use of data from previous year statistics to predict the rank based on your score this year. You'll find numerous such instances ; actually we're doing it since long back . Big data analysis is just the the same thing but on a much larger scale.

And also if we could do that , we might be able to solve more complex problem like that of Big Bang theory and other deepest mysteries of universe and our existence .

Any major development in building and developing this combination of hardware and software

or any failure here would decide the fate of humanity.The solution to this problem would forever change the way we live , the way we process information, Everything is just a few decades away.

This century will decide whether we'll rule the computers or they'll rule over us!