John Markoff

Machines of Loving Grace

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  • Vadzim Dabravolskihas quoted8 years ago
    Never mistake a clear view for a short distance,”
  • Vadzim Dabravolskihas quoted8 years ago
    Licklider wrote in 1960 about the distance between “mechanically extended man” and “artificial intelligence,” and warned about the early direction of automation technology: “If we focus upon the human operator within the system, however, we see that, in some areas of technology, a fantastic change has taken place during the last few years. ‘Mechanical extension’ has given way to replacement of men, to automation, and the men who remain are there more to help than to be helped.
  • Vadzim Dabravolskihas quoted8 years ago
    An experiment in an impoverished village in India in 2013 guaranteeing basic needs had just the opposite effect. The poor did not rest easy on their government subsidies; instead, they became more responsible and productive
  • Vadzim Dabravolskihas quoted8 years ago
    is a strange time—workplace automation has started to strike the white-collar workforce with the same ferocity that it transformed the factory floor beginning in the 1950s.
  • Orkhan Ahmadhas quoted8 years ago
    EPIGRAPH
    I like to think
    (it has to be!)
    of a cybernetic ecology
    where we are free of our labors
    and joined back to nature,
    returned to our mammal
    brothers and sisters,
    and all watched over
    by machines of loving grace.
    —Richard Brautigan,
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