A Whole New Mind Book Review
August 1, 2007
Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
Our egos took a beating in the Industrial Revolution when we learned machines could perform some tasks better than people. But hey, we still had our brains, right? Surely, no machine could ever match the power and intricacy of the human mind. But then came computers, and soon the brain’s superiority was being challenged.
Deep Blue whupped Garry Kasparov, Time magazine nominated the PC as 1983’s “Person” of the Year, and microprocessors appeared that could perform four billion calculations a second without ever getting tired or cranky.
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