Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains."
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Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains."
I'm haunted by that scene in
2001
. What makes it so poignant, and
so weird, is the computer's emotional
response to the disassembly of its
mind: its despair as one circuit after
another goes dark, its childlike
pleading with the astronaut—"I can
feel it. I can feel it. I'm afraid"—and
its final reversion to what can only be
called a state of innocence. HAL's
outpouring of feeling contrasts with
the emotionlessness that characterizes
the human figures in the film, who go
about their business with an almost
robotic efficiency. Their thoughts and
actions feel scripted, as if they're
following the steps of an algorithm.
In the world of
2001
, people have
become so machinelike that the most
human character turns out to be a
machine. That's the essence of
Kubrick's dark prophecy: as we come
to rely on computers to mediate our
understanding of the world, it is our
own intelligence that flattens into
artificial intelligence.
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