Deep Thought 42: Life, the Universe and Everything
Last year around this time, I wrote about how computers are getting smarter and how that would lead to enormous prosperity, but it would also reduce the need for people. If computers can drive and perform a huge number of tasks usually done by people,what would be left for people to do? Compared to scrabbling […]
Deep Thought 7: When Machines Rule
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. Flannery O’Connor In my last post I wrote about how computational capabilities are capable of displacing humans from many, many jobs. With computerized, self-driving cars within […]
Deep Thought 6: The Mind in the Machine
I recently read an article about the business philosopher Clayton Christensen. His core idea is about how well established businesses are overtaken by disruptive innovations at the bottom of their market. A classic example is the steel mills being overtaken by mini-mills. At first big steel was happy to cede the low end of the […]