The gulf that separates us from the near past is now so great that we cannot really imagine how one could design a spacecraft, or learn engineering in the first place, or even just look something up, without a computer and a network. Journalists my age will understand how profound and disturbing this break in history is: Do you remember doing your job before Google? It was, obviously, possible, since we actually did it, but how? It is like having a past life as a conquistador or a phrenologist.
Colby Cosh, “Who will be the moonwalkers of tomorrow?”, Maclean’s, 2014-07-24.
July 25, 2014
QotD: The singularity already happened
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