Sadly, one potent side effect of being ‘interactive intellectual amplifiers’ is that they also amplify our worst tribal tendencies and biases.
I am hopeful, however. Either we evolve our culture to have new norms around tool use, or the next generation of tools gets better.
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“In the early 60s JCR Licklider, a psychologist at the Advanced Research Projects Agency put forth a great vision: ‘It is the destiny of computers to become interactive intellectual amplifiers for all people pervasively networked worldwide’”.
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