*[...] the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers t...

cawel on July 27, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Happy Birthday, Stanley Kubrick

[...] the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.

source: last sentence in this article from Nicholas Carr: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google