Visual Communications-Roles of Computing in design today and what the future holds

Through many technological advances in the past couple of decades, computers have taken the place of many activities we used to perform, but now take for granted because of the ease of computing. An example of this is shown through design today. Most of our products that we use everyday such as cars, stoplights, elevators, and doors to public places are now being controlled by some sort of computer. This starts in the design process. We have come to rely very much so on many designs controlled by computers.
In the article when talking about the design software it discusses how computing has not advanced to where the program can “think” for us and tell us our mistakes or it cannot fully understand and develop what we want it to without us telling it to. I believe that in a sense this will never change. The computing devices are there because the human brain cannot possibly process all the information that passes through it at one time. That is why we plug the information into a computer as the information comes to us because the computer can process all the information at once. The computer will never be able to develop an idea and manipulate that idea into a finished product without our help. But I do believe that in the future computers may be able to already store wholes of information such as actual objects we intend to use and the environments we intend to place the design without us having to piece it together. Initially, it will have to be placed together, but only in the programming stages of the software. The internet may help this process because we can tell the program what type of object or what type of environment we are looking for and it can find it on the internet and place it into our design, and we can then manipulate it from there.
Technology is going to continue to advance with as many ideas that the human brain can develop, but how it will be used may be limited. I believe that technology will be pushed not to its limits but to our limits of comprehending what is actually happening and how we are to control it. We make advances in computing so that we can develop products that can control our lives and make our lives easier. This will continue to happen in the future. We may run into a problem with this in later years though, because the more we become dependent on the computing to help our lives when they do crash or freeze or just refuse to work, we will have a much bigger problem at hand because not just one thing will go wrong, a series of things will.