intelligence

Disembodied and pervasive intelligence is a major feature of digital environments, although much of the intelligence is of a very low order and the connections are patchy. 

     machines with minds

Artificial Intelligence visionary Hans Moravec offers a strangelovian forecast in Mind Children: The Future of Robot & Human Intelligence (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 1990) and Robot: Mere Machine To Transcendent Mind (New York: Oxford Uni Press 1999) with predictions that old-fashioned wetware (ie you and I) will shortly be supplanted by hardware and software. 

That vision is shared by Raymond Kurzweil, famous for work on speech recognition & synthesis, in his tracts The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (London: Phoenix 1999) and The Age of Intelligent Machines (Cambridge: MIT Press 1990). 

Many readers will prefer Stan Franklin's Artificial Minds (Cambridge: MIT 1995), an overview of recent developments in artificial intelligence, robotics and cognitive science, and Philip Agre's lucid Computation & Human Experience (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 1997).





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