Technological Transcendence July 2014

ISSUE 01 / JULY 2014

Transcendence

FUTURE OF HUMANITY?

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.

—POPULAR MECHANICS, 1949

AI-box experiment