What if you handed Isaac Newton an iPhone? @rodneyabrook’s thought experiment is one of my favorite @EconTalker moments. Episode on how we overestimate technology’s impact in the near future, and underestimate it long term.http://www.econtalk.org/rodney-brooks-on-artificial-intelligence/ …
There is so much more to amaze Newton in the present than an iPhone. What resurrection technology you used for instance, for instance. But first, where is God or the Devil in this afterlife.
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As for showing technology to people who moments before were living in a technological desert, well, you do realize how fast Africa was equipped with cell phones, aren't you?
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