Computing Design In the Future

Response to “Computing In Architectural Design”

In today’s architectural world, the computer is hugely relied on as an aid to accomplish ideas that humans alone can not transmit on paper. Computing is still used as a mere tool in the industry; nothing more than a very accurate extension of the arm.
Computers also serve as a communication tool and a way to connect. The ability to email and transfer images via the internet has changed the way we design. Ideas can be sent at the click of a mouse and co-workers and clients can exist thousands of miles apart and still communicate ideas far more effectively than by mailing plans and talking on the phone.
When considering what the roles of computing in design will be in the future, one can only guess. When looking back to the past and the start of computer aided design, compared to today, everything seemed so mundane. Giant computers with a stylus that could only accurately portray geometric 2-D forms; in comparison to today, where computers aid in the creation of things humans alone cannot do. At the rate we are going, at some point computers will most likely be more knowledgeable than humans. As stated in the article, computers are starting to have a huge impact on our everyday lives; we are beginning to live in a world run by computers. Cell phones, cars, even buildings are all starting to be controlled by computers to some degree and that can only continue. Computers and the internet are actually becoming a destination, which has never been the case before. A completely cyber world is not so out of the question anymore.
As far as computers in response to design, the next step beyond where we are currently would have to be for the computers to begin to have some sort of input into the design itself. The accuracy seen in computers and their vast capacity for storage, may lead to their ability to make design decisions on their own, not just being a tool anymore. Computers may become a good resource for design ideas, of possibly become designers themselves.