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Eventually, computers might outperform humans in the very fields that made Homo sapiens the ruler of the world: intelligence and communication. The process that began in the Euphrates valley 5,000 years ago, when Sumerian geeks outsourced data-processing from the human brain to a clay tablet, would culminate in Silicon Valley with the victory of the tablet. Humans might still be around, but they would no longer be able to make sense of the world. The new ruler of the world would be a long line of zeros and ones.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
We all work very closely to product and design and put a lot of emphasis on having the user at the center of all our technical reflections — pushing the boundaries of what could be (more) awesome for the end user.
I’m comfortable with where I stand on these issues, but that’s not to say my positions are correct. They are where I’ve landed after considerable thought. I’ve made a wider application of my values to the most painful of choices, making exceptions to these standards on occasion, but for the most part holding to them.
On Character
Stanley McChrystal
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