Comments on: Slaves To Technology? http://www.psfk.com/2008/09/slaves-to-technology.html Ideas & Trends Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:14:19 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: zelzal 220 http://www.psfk.com/2008/09/slaves-to-technology.html/comment-page-1#comment-193475 zelzal 220 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:40:22 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=14681#comment-193475 If we don't think at all and listen to computers call , the power of our land will be in computers hand . So , we should fight against the commands of industry technical slavery . If we don’t think at all and listen to computers call , the power of our land will be in computers hand . So , we should fight against the commands of industry technical slavery .

]]> By: Floyd Hayes http://www.psfk.com/2008/09/slaves-to-technology.html/comment-page-1#comment-121295 Floyd Hayes Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:23:30 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=14681#comment-121295 Kurtzweil pointed out in The Singularity is Near that over 50% of human to human communications are via AI or software. How true and how strange. Kurtzweil pointed out in The Singularity is Near that over 50% of human to human communications are via AI or software.

How true and how strange.

]]> By: Number9 http://www.psfk.com/2008/09/slaves-to-technology.html/comment-page-1#comment-121182 Number9 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:06:29 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=14681#comment-121182 "He could take a stack of numbers as long as his arm, run his finger down them like a blind man reading braille, and add them up faster than anyone could punch them into an adding machine" But is this intelligence? Humans are good at things like analysis, problem-solving, and making policy judgments. Why should we spend our time on computation when we can direct our energies toward the larger issue we want to address? Calculators are infinitely better than humans at doing this sort of thing, so why shouldn't we embrace their efficiency? We should certainly understand the how and why of mathematical functions, understand which ones to use when, and so on, but do we really need to write out every multiplication and division problem that arises? Should we give up matches so that we don't lose the knowledge of how to make fire with sticks? “He could take a stack of numbers as long as his arm, run his finger down them like a blind man reading braille, and add them up faster than anyone could punch them into an adding machine”

But is this intelligence?

Humans are good at things like analysis, problem-solving, and making policy judgments. Why should we spend our time on computation when we can direct our energies toward the larger issue we want to address? Calculators are infinitely better than humans at doing this sort of thing, so why shouldn’t we embrace their efficiency? We should certainly understand the how and why of mathematical functions, understand which ones to use when, and so on, but do we really need to write out every multiplication and division problem that arises? Should we give up matches so that we don’t lose the knowledge of how to make fire with sticks?

]]> By: Scott http://www.psfk.com/2008/09/slaves-to-technology.html/comment-page-1#comment-121134 Scott Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:31:12 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=14681#comment-121134 It's extremely obvious in our schools and with recent grads. the generation that knows more than any other generation...but understands nothing. It’s extremely obvious in our schools and with recent grads. the generation that knows more than any other generation…but understands nothing.

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