A World Without Mind

Here is a very thoughtful interview, which is essentially a book review of World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech:

French philosopher Rene Descartes famously said “I think, therefore I am.” But in the digital age, what we think and how we live are being influenced in a big way by just a handful of tech firms: We are informed by Google and entertained by Apple; we socialize on Facebook and shop on Amazon. It’s time to reclaim our identities and reassert our intellectual independence, according to Franklin Foer, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and former editor of The New Republic, in his book, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. He recently joined the Knowledge@Wharton show, which airs on SiriusXM channel 111, to explain why these firms’ hold on society is a cautionary tale for the future.

You can read the rest and listen to the podcast @
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/world-without-mind/

In the world being created by Big Tech, there will be a mind - THEIR mind - and it will be an AI super intelligence.

Ultimately, humans will not be needed.