Re: Off-Topic: The Future of Information Technology and the Human Brain

Paul
It is excellent! A + for it! However, i tried to open the web page you mentioned but Yahoo Geocities could not find it. Would you check it out? Again a big + for this article

Gerardo Delgado

Paul Bowers wrote:

> My apologies for this post, but it seemed relevant to the CAD vs.
> manual argument we had a few years ago.
>
> If you are unfamiliar with James Burke's thinking, it's probably
> worth looking him up. Don't necessarily take this excerpt as being
> representative of his ideas, read the article (or even better yet,
> read his books).
>
> Paul
> *****
>
> From:
> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5148/burke_james_technol">http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5148/burke_james_technol</a>
> ogy.html
>
> "BURKE: Well, going out on somewhat of a limb, I would have said
> that formal qualifications are again the last expression of the
> old way of looking at things, in the sense that to have a doctor
> operate on you, you need to have a doctor who knows what he's
> talking about. And you don't want to cross a bridge built by an
> engineer who failed his degree or didn't take a degree but just
> said, "I want to build a bridge," but knows nothing about stress.
> And almost every aspect of the mass-produced modern industrial
> world has until now relied on a means of assuring society that the
> persons to whom it gives these responsibilities are indeed what
> they said they were. However, increasingly what will happen is
> that qualified machines will do the jobs instead of human experts.
> For example, it may be that surgery 50 years from now will not
> consist of some extremely talented butcher slicing meat, but of
> harnessing the body's own repair mechanisms, the immune system, or
> whatever, to do the necessary work to cure disease before the need
> for surgery develops. If that happens, we may no longer have need
> of surgeons. It's happened before. How many people can shoe a
> horse today?"
>
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Received on Sat Jul 07 09:21:00 2001