Computers can accelerate our collective intelligence to an unheard degree — but will that be a good thing?
Over at FT.com , Tim O’Reillyhas a must - read essayabout the symbiosis between human race and computers . We ’re already propagating our knowledge and our acculturation at a much faster pace than in the past tense , he argues , and the next step is computers that can get a line from “ the activity of human teachers ” but then notice thing the humans would n’t . He cites the instance of Google ’s autonomous vehicle , which beats other self - driving cars because it can pass on all the experience of “ millions of route miles put in by human gadget driver building the Google Street View database ....