I love the way that the neurologists are mapping neural activity to sociology, XOR gates to excel spreadsheets, 100 billion independant computational units working together to generate the macroscopic human condition. This is just getting empathy down to the neural level.
Ahhh, the classic mgmt vs worker dilemma.
There's an (infamous) article by Orson Scott Card that sums this up, particularly in the software scene:
http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/kjc/cool/Card.on.S oftware.html
This is similar to cavemen remarking on how it would never be possible to touch that big white circle in the night sky.
New technology and new ideas are always seen as 'magical' because they extend the cultural notion of what is possible. (I'm thinking of radio, the telephone, television, jet propulsion...). Marconi's friends labelled him as insane when he said that he had found out how to send messages silently through the air .
And the recent exponential increases in computing power are surely bringing AI closer, which is again going to change the way we look at what is and is'nt possible. Wait and see.
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in 30 years time, UNIX will become confused and uncertain as it reaches is dilemma-umm.
I love the way that the neurologists are mapping neural activity to sociology, XOR gates to excel spreadsheets, 100 billion independant computational units working together to generate the macroscopic human condition. This is just getting empathy down to the neural level.
Ahhh, the classic mgmt vs worker dilemma. There's an (infamous) article by Orson Scott Card that sums this up, particularly in the software scene: http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/kjc/cool/Card.on.S oftware.html
Jeez, I thought you guys were trying to get windows _off_ your boxes ;-)
This is similar to cavemen remarking on how it would never be possible to touch that big white circle in the night sky. New technology and new ideas are always seen as 'magical' because they extend the cultural notion of what is possible. (I'm thinking of radio, the telephone, television, jet propulsion...). Marconi's friends labelled him as insane when he said that he had found out how to send messages silently through the air . And the recent exponential increases in computing power are surely bringing AI closer, which is again going to change the way we look at what is and is'nt possible. Wait and see.