Bernhard J. Vogler

The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated. Without external aids, memory, thought, and reasoning are all constrained. But human intelligence is highly flexible and adaptive, superb at inventing procedures and objects that overcome its own limits. The real powers come from devising external aids that enhance cognitive abilities. How have we increased memory, thought, and reasoning? By the inventions of external aids: It is things that make us smart.

Smith fragt zuerst: Wie funktioniert die menschliche Psyche? Welche Art von Anerkennung ist uns wichtig? Wie funktioniert eigentlich Moral? Und daraus leitet er dann ab, was wir für ein Wirtschaftssystem brauchen. Diesen Gedanken finde ich wahnsinnig sympathisch.

Computer and data scientists are the nuclear scientists of our age, proprietors of technology that can be used for good or ill.