“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.”
—Claude Shannon
Ever since life started on Earth it faced the vague, the unpredictable, and the unknown. For the largest part of history, the unknowns of the natural world might have seemed more crucial than any human-made unknowns. Good or bad weather could spell the difference between starving or surviving for one more season. As societies increased in complexity, human-made unknowns ...