What do you do when the technology has become cleverer than you? When it anticipates your thinking and intention? When it suggests for you to perform actions you have not yet thought through? If this dilemma involved heavy industry or transport, the outcome could be dangerous, even fatal. Do you really want a car that decides how and when to change speed or direction? Do we need software that decides what the article you are writing should say about an important topic? As I have pointed out before, when you are presented with a load of options by the technology, although you set out to perform a simple task, you are being manipulated.
Clever?
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Born 1935, Bristol, UK. Educated at St Brendans College and University of Bristol. Veterinary practice in Cornwall, Dorset, Hampshire and New Zealand. Taught at Massey University, NZ and University of Sydney, Australia. Retired 2005. Now a writer of books, poetry and songs. U3A teacher of courses: Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, How to Retire Disgracefully, Music for Fun, Mentoring and Looking after your Colon. Now living in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia. View more posts
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