“ The scariest thing about Stanley Kubrick’s vision [in reference to his film “2001: A Space Odyssey, which dealt with such themes as human evolution and its complex relationship with artificial intelligence] wasn’t that computers started acting like people but that people started acting like computers. We’re beginning to process information as if we’re nodes; it’s all about the speed of locating and reading data. We’re transferring our intelligence into the machine, and the machine is transferring its way of thinking into us.
— Nicholas Carr, from an interview by Wired Magazine
1.04.08
