New at EDGE by John Brockman:
a talk with Frank Schirrmacher, Germany's "Culture Czar", co-publisher of the leading national German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), where he is Editor of the Feuilleton, cultural and science pages of the paper.
which "is interested in George Dyson´s comment
What if the price of machines that think is people who don't?
and
Danny Hillis´s quotation: In the long run, the Internet will arrive at a much richer infrastructure, in which ideas can potentially evolve outside of human minds."
Further Brockman says: We discussed his notion that computer platforms can be seen as socio-biological systems which repeat three of the major concepts of the 19th century on an individual level: Taylorism (multitasking), Marxism (free content and copyright) and Darwinism (search algorithm and information foraging). "The Darwinian perspective is the most interesting," he says. "Information being an advantage for the informarvores and software that codes it with cues from foraging habits of the prehistoric man".
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