[MortMan]

Am I the only techie out there that enjoys being disconnected from time to time? Sometimes I just need to be left to my own thoughts.

[Deplorable American1776]

Before artificial intelligence, can we put intelligence in Liberals first?

[Macoozie]

If you think California has a problem with generating enough electric power now, just wait til we are all connected together.

If we are all connected to everything, and know all there is to know, wouldn’t that make us all exactly the same?

What then would be the point of it all?

[grey_whiskers]

The entire explosion of wishful thinking futurist humanist verbal sludge, reduced to a single picture:

[Billthedrill]

Interesting speculation but a few nuts and bolts short of practicality. I keep reading glib predictions of how human cognition is going to map to what is currently a digital network and I raise my little hand and object, "but we don't know how to do this. In fact, we don't know how to know how to do this."

Despite Gilbert Ryle's gentle mockery there does actually appear to be a ghost in the machine and we don't know what it is or where to find it. "We" aren't going anywhere until we do.

[SatinDoll]

It is already happening.

ADHD results in wiring in the human brain that does not cease creating connections when a child approaches 21-years of age as is normal. Instead, the brain continues creating connections until the age of 24 to 26. That is why it is important to prevent youngsters from using illegal drugs and alcohol before they are in their late 20s.

The amazing thing here is that brain capacity can be expanded within the braincases many of us already possess.