
What Hath Science Wrought?
Is artificial intelligence (AI) coming along just in time for our increasingly travel, entertainment and recreation-oriented society? Can it make up for a proposed 32-hour standardized work week and the time we already spend scanning social media and making telephone calls because portable cellular technology is readily available and easy to use? Will it replace the after-school and summer jobs that formerly held in exposed our youths to the postgraduate world of self-support?
How might it affect our now ingrained notion that a college degree is essential to a productive and otherwise satisfying career? Have you noticed that skilled tradespersons are driving new vehicles and earning more per hour than those who borrowed to study abstract subjects for which diplomas became a substitute for gainful employment?
The human condition does not have the same order of consistency that can be attributed to formulaic AI thought discipline. Will its lack of
quirkiness prove boring and lead to even greater human expression of individuality than we now experience, or will technology ultimately rule biology? What hath science wrought?
Phil Osifer



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