“The accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, give the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human…
“Intelligence has been decoupled from consciousness“— Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus, 2015
What is intelligence?
In school, we measure intelligence because it’s easier to measure than traits like…
By 2020, there will be 5,200 GB of data for every person on Earth. There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day. More data was created…
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers“— Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire
The further we get with computing — algorithms, perception, data collection - the harder the problems we are trying to solve and the less…
“It was becoming increasingly difficult to separate the atomic age from the information age”
Before the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, humanity spoke one language. They aspired to reach the level of God and began…
“Life, uh…finds a way” — Malcolm, Jurassic Park
It has been said that the First World War was the chemists’ war, because mustard gas and…
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is…