If you’re like me, you probably
think about technology a lot. I often wonder about the future: how
technological advancements will continue to change our lives for both the
better and worse, and how the more we integrate technology into our lives the
more it fundamentally changes what it means to be a human being. The rapidly
accelerating pace at which we’ve made these vast leaps in technological
progress is both fascinating and terrifying simultaneously.
With that in mind, I am asking
you to watch this really old TED talk from 20 years ago and think about what he
predicts versus where we are in 2014. Think about the premise of his entire
argument, which may challenge those who are close-minded (and surely no burgeoning
philosophers are). It is both fascinating and terrifying.
Oh, and if you don’t know who
Danny Hillis is, he’s one of the guys who helped build the original internet
back in the 1970s. Makes his perspective that much more interesting.
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