Computer

hannah arendt “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origin of Totalitarianism the future computers there are two types of computers, general and customized. both laptops and severs belong to the former. phones, washing machines, microwave, even cars belong to the latter. you are either a user or a programmer, or both. there are an obvious gap between users and programmers. the question here is if we could remove that gap? ...

The empty brain, Aeon Robert Epstein Senses, reflexes and learning mechanisms – this is what we start with, and it is quite a lot, when you think about it. If we lacked any of these capabilities at birth, we would probably have trouble surviving. computers really do operate on symbolic representations of the world. They really store and retrieve. They really process. They really have physical memories. They really are guided in everything they do, without exception, by algorithms. ...