Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Too busy to be ...


When our hyper-linked, multitasking minds become as fragmented and compartmentalized as our computers we will become as soulless as they are. The future may be less about increasing AI toward a state of self-directed consciousness and more about decreasing our humanity into a state of hollow, self-absorbed, utilitarianism. Are we already on the path toward making ourselves unconscious slaves to a world of conscious machines?