“Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the Wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the Knowledge we have lost in information?”
– T. S. Eliot
“Information is but the raw material, the precursor of knowledge. Knowledge emerges from the distilling, shaping, and integrating of the raw material into concepts and rules, and in the process of condensation and generalization, the number of bits of detailed information dwindles, rather than mounts” — Paul Weiss, 1960
Last week, at the TED conference, it was announced that Google is contributing $250,000 to the new Singularity University. Singularity is what Nick Carr politely called “the rapture of the geeks,” describing hilariously in another post the founding meeting of the university and the secrecy surrounding the “discussion of our impending post-human future.”
I would like to suggest, just between us mere mortals, a more apt name for the new institution of higher learning: Giant Brains University (GBU).
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