Nova Spivack, one of the smarter people I've met, has a thoughtful post calling for an end to artificial intelligence and recommending that we replace it with "Artificial Stupidity: The Next Big Thing." Why? Because:
We are terrible organizers. We are lazy, messy, inconsistent, and we make all kinds of errors by accident. We are terrible at tagging and linking as well, it turns out. We are terrible at coordinating or tracking multiple things at once because we are easily overloaded and we can really only do one thing well at a time. These kinds of tasks are just not what our brains are good at. That's what computers are for - or should be for at least.
Humans are really good at higher level cognition: complex thinking, decisionmaking, learning, teaching, inventing, expressing, exploring, planning, reasoning, sensemaking, and problem solving -- but we are just terrible at managing email, or making sense of the Web. Let's play to our strengths and use computers to compensate for our weaknesses.
I agree. Just take a look at my desk. And table. and the desk next to that. Enough said. I'm pretty dubm.
