This is a deep article to digest fully. It makes me wonder, as we daily wrestle with politics and trying to save the nation, if there are historical forces beyond politics that are about to sweep us off into unknown futures. One lesson here is that the so-called progressives are in fact anti-future, but the future has a bad habit of coming to pass in spite of us.
I have often wondered if the complexity of today’s technology will be our downfall.
My degree in nuclear engineering from 50+ years ago was realized thanks to tables of 4 to 6-digit factors in big books, printed during the W.P.A. era, and a slide rule. Those Manhattan Project scientists and early NASA engineers were absolute geniuses.
Nothing artificial about their intelligence.