Artificial intelligence, robotics and societal change: The last revolution in the history of humanity?
Throughout history, certain places have acted as catalysts for intellectual and cultural explosions. Athens during the time of Socrates, Florence during the Renaissance, and Edinburgh in the 18th and 19th centuries all produced an outsized number of geniuses, reshaping the world in the process.
The question is: Can we recreate those conditions today?
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“Reading maketh a full man, […] and writing an exact man,” said Sir Francis Bacon. But what happens when the written word is overshadowed by the spoken one?
Welcome to a new era – call it postliteracy if you will – where endless paragraphs give way to short snippets, audiobooks and podcasts grow ever more popular and artificial intelligence reliably handles the nitty-gritty of spelling, grammar and style. It’s a time when you can speak your mind, quite literally, into a microphone and watch the words appear on screen, automatically polished for publication.
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