Reports of our death are an exaggeration Part 2

Of the division of labour between mind and body, Nietzsche & the Camden Cat, AI as a cheapest-to-deliver strategy, LibraryThing, and a better use for this technology

On being a machine

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

—Arthur C. Clarke’s third law

We are in a machine age.

We call it that because machines have proven consistently good at doing things humans are too weak, slow, inconstant or easily bored to do well: mechanical things.