We Should Talk About The Ultimate Cause

One Thing That I Have Been Trying To Do Is Bring Together In Places Like Bosnia Technologists Who Create Ever-more Destructive Land Mines [and Convince Them Not To Build More Dangerous Mines]. And That Has Actually Worked.

Of All The Things You Can Spend A Lot Of Money On, The Only Things You Expect To Fail Frequently Are Software And Medicine.

Back In The 1980s, When The Internet Was Only Available To A Small Number Of Pioneers, I Was Often Confronted By People Who Feared That The Strange Technologies I Was Working On, Like Virtual Reality, Might Unleash The Demons Of Human Nature. For Instance, Would People Become Addicted To Virtual Reality As If It Were A Drug? Would They Become Trapped In It, Unable To Escape Back To The Physical World Where The Rest Of Us Live? Some Of The Questions Were Silly, And Others Were Prescient.

The Cloud Is Driven By Statistics, And Even In The Worst Individual Cases Of Personal Ignorance, Dullness, Idleness, Or Irrelevance, Every Person Is Constantly Feeding Data Into The Cloud These Days. The Value Of Such Information Could Be Treated As Genuine, But It Is Not. Instead, The Blindness Of Our Standards Of Accounting To All That Value Is Gradually Breaking Capitalism.

The Upheavals [of Artificial Intelligence] Can Escalate Quickly And Become Scarier And Even Cataclysmic,” The New York Times Tech Columnist Once Wrote. “imagine How A Medical Robot, Originally Programmed To Rid Cancer, Could Conclude That The Best Way To Obliterate Cancer Is To Exterminate Humans Who Are Genetically Prone To The Disease.