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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.
We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
There's no reason why we cannot become smarter, more perfect, and maybe even live longer.
I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.
Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.
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.