We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.
Howard RheingoldThere is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.
Howard RheingoldIt used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.
Howard Rheingold