8. A few key assertions
§ We are building a network-mediated global mind
§ It is not skynet
§ It is us, augmented
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9. “global consciousness is
that thing responsible for
deciding that pots
containing decaffeinated
coffee should be orange”
– Danny Hillis (via Jeff Bezos)
– http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/03/16/etech_3.html
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10. Artificial Intelligence
“the science and engineering
of making intelligent machines”
-John McCarthy, 1956
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11. Intelligence Augmentation
“One cannot hope thus to equal the speed and flexibility with which the mind
follows an associative trail, but it should be possible to beat the mind
decisively in regard to the permanence and clarity of the items resurrected
from storage.
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized
private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex"
will do.”
– Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, 1945
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14. A device that knows
where I am better than I
do, a knowing assistant
telling me where to go
and how to get there.
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15. Beyond information
retrieval: real time
connection with other
people and what they
know.
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16. Man-Computer Symbiosis
“The hope is that, in not too many years, human
brains and computing machines will be coupled
together very tightly, and that the resulting
partnership will think as no human brain has ever
thought and process data in a way not approached by
the information-handling machines we know today.”
– Licklider, J.C.R., "Man-Computer Symbiosis", IRE Transactions on
Human Factors in Electronics, vol. HFE-1, 4-11, Mar 1960. Eprint
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22. A device with eyes and
ears, with a sense of
place, and motion, and
proximity, with memory
of what it’s seen and
where it’s been, senses
sharper than our own.
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23. The spread of sensors
§ sensor platform slide
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26. The “intelligent” devices of the future are cloud-connected
“We don’t have better algorithms. We just have more
data.” - Peter Norvig, Chief Scientist, Google
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48. “Access to all the world’s information”
“How can applications be better
when they are social?”
“Changing the world by spreading
the knowledge of innovators”
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