Have You Updated the Model of the World in your Mind to Equal New Realities?

Quotes from Wired For War by P. Singer

John Pike of the Global Security organization puts it into this broad historic context. “First, you had human
beings without machines. Then, you had human beings with machines. And, finally you have machines
without human beings.” Security analyst Christopher Coker comments, “We now stand on the cusp of post-
human history.”

Does your view of the future encompass the fact that computers will be competing with human-level
intelligence in a short time?  Do you know that if something is doubling each year that it is only half way
when it has used up 90% of the years?  The human mind does not naturally or intuitively understand
exponential progress.  What have you done to make your mind track such reality more closely?

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