Comments on: Is Google Making Us Stupid? http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/06/12/is-google-making-us-stupid/ Frank Carver's musings about software and life Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:15:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/06/12/is-google-making-us-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Steve Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:44:05 +0000 http://blog.punchbarrel.com/?p=110#comment-45 For those of us who can't be bothered to read the whole thing, the last few words are: "In the world of 2001, people have become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine. That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence." Steve For those of us who can’t be bothered to read the whole thing, the last few words are:

“In the world of 2001, people have become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine. That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.”

Steve

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