Technology in the Present and Future

In Greg Chapman’s blog post The Road to Infinity-Making Journey to the Edge of the Earth, Chapman presents the benefits and the new technology that is being discovered and how it is used today. Chapman first talks about how when he was a young boy and star gazer, he would look to the night sky and wonder about what else was out in space. As he fast forwards to about 2 years ago you see how technology has expanded. Instead of just looking through a telescope wondering…you can actually see what is out in the universe. We have created such technology that we can actually “visit” other planets, and get a close up view of planets, stars, the sun and much more. t amazes me how in such a short time period scientists can come up with the technology to visit outer space, and also send rovers on to real plant itself.
In Chapman’s project Journey to the Edge of the Universe, he describes the process of which he is making a TV show to show what kinds of things are out in space. He says how he will match the real images of outer space and create them into computer graphics to show on the show. Chapman also states that the production is more of an animated movie than a documentary.
After reading this article, it made me wonder about what will the technology be like in a couple years. Will we actually be able to visit other planets with the technology we have now, but what it will be like in 5 or 10 years; how much of it will be perfected? I know that NASA has already planned to have life on the moon, so in 25 years will we be able to have life on another planet. We can’t just wonder and dream about these things, we have to take action like Greg Chapman. He wondered about what was out in the universe, but when he got older he was now the Executive Producer of Journey. He took action and is now creating a show about it.