"Let's build a smarter planet." (IBM)
This is problematic in so many ways: a) it is full of techno-optimism; b) you can't just remake Earth (that doesn't make any sense--unless IBM wants to build another planet and stick us on it [I actually have no doubt that this is the logical end of computers]); c) Earth cannot be smart--and our environmental problems are not a result of the planet being dumb.
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I think what IBM would like is if we evolved into beings of pure energy, who resided in mammoth solid-state servers and traveled instantaneously along fiberoptic cables to anywhere in the universe.
But what I say is, how would we have sex then? Answer that one, IBM.
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