“The substrate of future thoughts will sit somewhere on a continuum within a rainbow of intelligences, from regular-I to AI.”

Roger Highfield
Science Writer
Museum Director

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9 years ago

“The true transforming genius of human intelligence is not individual thinking at all but collective, collaborative and distributed intelligence—the fact that…it takes thousands of different people to make a pencil, not one of whom knows how to make a pencil.”

Matt Ridley
Science Writer
Author, The Rational Optimist

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9 years ago

“Number crunching can only get you so far. Intelligence, artificial or otherwise, requires knowing why things happen, what emotions they stir up, and being able to predict possible consequences of actions.”

Roger Schank
Psychologist & Computer Scientist
Engines for Education Inc.

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9 years ago

“Technology should work for people, not the other way around.”

Brad Becker
Chief Design Officer
IBM Watson

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9 years ago

“Decades of technological innovation have created a world system so complex and fast-moving that it is quickly becoming beyond human capacity to comprehend, much less manage. If we are to avoid civilizational catastrophe, we need more than clever new tools—we need allies and agents.”

Paul Saffo
Technology Forecaster
Stanford University

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9 years ago

“I believe we are migrating toward a networked environment in which thinking is no longer an individual activity, nor bound by time and space.”

Douglas Rushkoff
Media Theorist
Author, Present Shock

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9 years ago