>>”Those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created,” argues a new article in New York Magazine titled “The Internet Apologizes”. Today, the most dire warnings are coming from the heart of Silicon Valley itself. The man who oversaw the creation of the original iPhone believes the device he helped build is too addictive. The inventor of the World Wide Web fears his creation is being “weaponized.” Even Sean Parker, Facebook’s first president, has blasted social media as a dangerous form of psychological manipulation. “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” he lamented recently...
If people in the future are literate enough and thoughtful enough to even write history, the Internet will probably be remembered as the greatest monster ever invented by man.
No, that dubious honor will go to Artificial Intelligence.
Mankind will be forced to fight a machine race of cyborgs one day.