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NPR Looks to Technological Singularity
Rick Kleffel writes to tell us that NPR is featuring a piece with both Vernor Vinge and Cory Doctorow looking at the possibility of the "technological singularity" in the near future. Wikipedia defines a technological singularity as a "hypothetical "event horizon" in the predictability of human technological development. Past this event horizon, following the creation of strong artificial intelligence or the amplification of human intelligence, existing models of the future cease to give reliable or accurate answers. Futurists predict that after the Singularity, posthumans and/or strong AI will replace humans as the dominating force in science and technology, rendering human-specific social models obsolete."
For me Wikipedia is "augmented intelligence"...
...since the Wikipedia is created by so many, it may be considered a primitive product of the "meta intelligence" described.
Make that "augmented stupidity" and you'd be more accurate. Can you imagine the "text book that anyone can edit" being used in any school, college, hospital, or anywhere else where accurate information is important? If you can then Wikipedia is at your level.
No such thing. This is Web 2.0 babble. You may think that giving credence to mob rule and groupthink is a good idea, but due to the magnificence of evolution through natural selection, you won't be passing on your genes very far.
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question