Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.
Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.
We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
There's no reason why we cannot become smarter, more perfect, and maybe even live longer.
I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.
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