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by leobg 1482 days ago
Doug Engelbart in the 1960s would’ve expected that we, in 2022, would have computers that will just immediately present us with the exact answer that we are looking for. That will do all of the searching and filtering and refining for us. That will ask us to clarify our question if it is ambiguous. And that will immediately tell us if the question we have asked is one to which humanity has yet to find an answer. The computer would help us be more efficient with our tiny brains. To allow us to focus on processing what is worth processing. And that we can focus our explorations on the areas that haven’t been explored.