Please read the whole article at the link
Modern Prometheus................
This is how you write before seeing a career counselor.
Wonder if the author of this piece ever read the book, “Homo Deus?” I’m in the midst of reading it, and while the author makes some good points, utterly and contemptuously dismisses religion and other “soft” aspects of the human condition as being just about valueless. I’m reading the book for its technical projections/predictions (he thinks that we’ll be immortal, all powerful and happy - but I don’t see how we’ll get to the latter without religion-based values), not for the author’s values (which are just about non-existent (he’s just another technically-oriented Leftist, IMHO).
The future's so bright we gotta wear asbestos!
For all of his Eastern mysticism, Herman Hesse understood the problem of modern times back in the 1940s, the problem of the feuilleton, of substituting empty titillation for deep thought. He believed the situation was bad back in The Glass Bead Game days, but the 1940s were Aristotelian or Talmudic compared to today.
Every step forward in technology makes it possible for the wise to become wiser, and the foolish to become more foolish. This is a dichotomy that cannot last.
What’s the frequency, Dan?
Not all knowledge was meant for the finite minds of us mortals, nor should we fly too close to the sun lest we perish.
It is funny how much the Singularity mythos “appropriates” Christianity.
The Singularity is an all-knowing, all-seeing, ought to be obeyed benevolent AI (God).
Believers will get to upload their minds to digital simulated paradise and become immortal (heaven).
If you don’t do this and do what the AI tells you to do to make the world a better place, climate change will boil the seas and make air unbreathable (hell).
By the end, I realized a likeness to C.S. Lewis. Good column.