Science and technology are advancing exponentially, as they always have. Business practices, systems, methods and procedures are failing to keep pace. The result is a yawning chasm that will swallow the laggards.
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Computers more intelligent than human beings
Computers that are more intelligent than human beings may seem like science fiction, and have been featured by sci-fi writers, but there is an undercurrent of reality that has the attention of savvy business people.
Science and technology are advancing at such a rapid pace we must consider the consequences of rapidly advancing technology.
It is worth noting what Bill Gates said at an artificial intelligence conference. ?If you invent a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, so machines can learn, that is worth 10 Microsofts,? he commented.
Just one Microsoft made Gates the wealthiest person in the United States. It would take a super-intelligent computer indeed to grasp the potential in 10 Microsofts.
There may be some hyperbole in Gates? remark, but science and technology are advancing at such a rapid pace that they have earned the label of technological singularity.
The term is meant to convey the technological creation of self-improving intelligence, unprecedentedly rapid technological progress, or some combination of the two.
There are at least three schools of thought among scientists and futurists who comment on the consequences of rapidly advancing technology.
There are those who think it is a good thing, those who think it is a great danger facing humanity, and those who see it in the words of the acclaimed inventor and scientist Ray Kurzweil as leading to ?a rupture in the fabric of human history.?
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