Ray Kurzweil likes to talk about the Singularity, that, depending on who you ask (mythical?), point in time after which technology will have gotten so advanced that there will be a break, a point-of-no-return, an acceleration whereby humans will be out of the loop, or at least will no
Communication about the things we consume in our society is a major part of our economy, and helps to shape materially how we live. As increasingly wide swaths of endeavor like manufacturing, distribution, and retail are reconfigured due to the flowering of several technologies the
Writing, reading, thought and language are so intimately human that it can be jarring to think about writing for, well, the machine. As much as technology has advanced, and will advance, it still seems like real understanding of the same nature as what happens in a human mind –