A comment in Russian on my blog! Wow. I don’t get many comments in the first place, not to mention in a language other than English. Translated it using Google translate.
With the technology we have today, we can seriously outsource our brain, or at least certain functions. There’s a cool new search engine wolframalpha. Check it out. So there’s a trend here: computers/machines are getting smarter while we are… Will we reach singularity (a term coined by computer scientist and science fiction writer Vernor Vinge about machines with greater than human intelligence)? Ok, I haven’t read that book yet so I can’t quite comment here. Don’t know what’s the definition of intelligence in his book.
Well, will leave that to another day. Less than more hour to the end of another weekend and I have not done all that I meant to..never seem to have enough time. And there’s this book shop Class as Soulcraft: An inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford that looks like an interesting read as well as Thio Li-ann’s Mind the Gap – Contending for Righteousness in an Age of Lawlessness that I am reading now and…and…
