I’m not really older than the internet but when I was a kid only the dad blasted gubbermint and the evil godless huge multinational corporations had it.
In the early ninties we heard about the “information superhighway” and really couldn’t imagine what the World Wide Web was.
Y2K threatened our national existence until —-January 1, 2000 came and went without our cars not starting or much of anything happening bad.
My experiences with artificial intelligence so far have all been very pleasant.
My wife had an alert set on her phone when the Corpse Flower bloomed and her $250 (now only $200) Garmin 76 took us to the damned end of the line to see it once I said
Hey Garmin!
Missouri Botanical Gardens
It came up and I said
Yes
Our grandchildren, maybe our children, or even us, someday won’t have to actually drive there.
They’ll sit and watch their vehicle drive there.
It will go off and be recharged while they wait.
Each and every doom prophet about advanced technology in my lifetime, has been dead wrong.
We fear artificial intelligence because we can’t grasp all the benefits. The only market for it that will be profitable will be if it helps us live our lives better.
Each year, my parents used to buy a huge Rand McNally road atlas and I did too, until I got my first Garmin Street Pilot nearly 25 years ago.
Garmin delivers full-featured GPS navigation for cars and RVs, dash cams and wireless backup cameras.
www.garmin.com
The market value today of Nvidia, is over twice the annual GDP of Russia or Brazil and equals Germany.
Sometimes I can almost hear my law school estate administration professor still drill it into our heads in the middle of the worst recession then since the Great Depression—
A whole lot of people, have lost a whole lot of money, betting against the United States of America.
For all our many faults America is still, that same shining city on the hill, as it was then and will always be.
We invented atom bombs using slide rules 80 years ago and sent a dozen men to the moon and got all them back safely home using captured German rocket scientists 60 years ago.
No need to fear better computers, you know?
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