A lot more people are spending a lot more time thinking now than in the past (mostly involuntarily and not well). An obvious effect of living in an information abundant digital environment with more and more physical work becoming automated. Yet it somehow doesn’t seem obvious.
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Software eats world, a relatively low-thinking world
World turns into giant brain looking to feed thinking
World eats itself, absent things outside of itself to think about
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Idea: why not give four and a half billion story-telling apes pocket supercomputers connected to eachother and see what happens
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Not fully disagreeing, maybe a counterpoint
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“As we enter more deeply into the world of ubiquitous computing, we increasingly seal ourselves into an exclusively human zone of interaction. We enter into a bizarre kind of intraspecies incest.”
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