- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- How This Book Came About
- Powerful Ideas Dealt with in the Book
-
I The Physical World -
1 Quantum Physics Takes Free Will into Account -
2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe -
3 For Exoplanets, Anything Is Possible -
4 From Casimir Forces to Black-Body Radiation: Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations -
5 The Challenge of Climate Change -
6 Graphene and Its “Family”: The Finest Materials Ever to Exist -
7 The Laws of Thermodynamics Tell You What Is and What Is Not Possible -
8 Wisdom Hewn in Ancient Stones -
9 Galileo Programme: Planning Uncertainty and Imagining the Possible and the Impossible -
10 Looking Forward in Architecture by Looking Back -
11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms -
II Information -
12 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide -
13 The Logic of Physics versus the Logic of Computer Science -
14 The Pillars of MIT: Innovation, Radical Meritocracy, and Open Knowledge -
15 We Need Algorithms That Can Make Explicit What Is Implicit -
16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence -
17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies -
18 The Challenge of the Open Dissemination of Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence, and Information Technology -
19 Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place -
20 Encryption as a Human Right -
21 Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology -
22 The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic -
III Intelligence -
23 “Affective Computing” Is Not an Oxymoron -
24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior -
25 MIT Collaborative Innovation: It Takes >2 to Tango -
26 Mind over Matter: Brain-Machine Interfaces -
27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World -
28 Between Caves: From Plato to the Brain through the Internet -
29 There Will Be No End of Work -
30 A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob -
31 Measuring the Intelligence of Everything -
32 Touching the Soul of Michelangelo -
IV Epilogue -
33 Geometry of a Multidimensional Universe: Weightless Art and the Painting of the Void - Name Index
- Subject Index
The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence
The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence
- Chapter:
- (p.179) 16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence
- Source:
- Is the Universe a Hologram?
- Author(s):
Michail Bletsas
Adolfo Plasencia
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Michail Bletsas, Director of Computing at the MIT Media Lab and Director of the Network Computing Systems Group at MIT, is convinced that the 21st century will see the emergence of biological intelligence. He starts the dialogue with an explanation of why the Internet and its huge computational system, - the most complex human-built system -, is forcing us to learn to engage with systems that are becoming even more complicated, with varying levels of complexity. He describes later the arrival of the finely granular Internet, which in consequence led to the concept of connectivity everywhere. Later he outlines the Internet of Things’ capabilities that he and his team have deployed inside the new MIT Media Lab building. Michael then goes on to argue why we have to separate issues of business from scientific arguments and prediction—the important thing in business is not only what’s going to happen, but when it will happen. Michael also relates why the best type of innovation is bottom up, before going on to explain how not only innovation, but also evolution, is gradually improving things.
Keywords: The Internet of Things, Codification of human intelligence, Nonhuman intelligence, Nonbiological intelligence, Non-carbon-based biological evolution, Finely granular Internet, Mesh technologies, Connectivity everywhere, Peer-to-peer effect, Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Technologies
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- How This Book Came About
- Powerful Ideas Dealt with in the Book
-
I The Physical World -
1 Quantum Physics Takes Free Will into Account -
2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe -
3 For Exoplanets, Anything Is Possible -
4 From Casimir Forces to Black-Body Radiation: Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations -
5 The Challenge of Climate Change -
6 Graphene and Its “Family”: The Finest Materials Ever to Exist -
7 The Laws of Thermodynamics Tell You What Is and What Is Not Possible -
8 Wisdom Hewn in Ancient Stones -
9 Galileo Programme: Planning Uncertainty and Imagining the Possible and the Impossible -
10 Looking Forward in Architecture by Looking Back -
11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms -
II Information -
12 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide -
13 The Logic of Physics versus the Logic of Computer Science -
14 The Pillars of MIT: Innovation, Radical Meritocracy, and Open Knowledge -
15 We Need Algorithms That Can Make Explicit What Is Implicit -
16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence -
17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies -
18 The Challenge of the Open Dissemination of Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence, and Information Technology -
19 Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place -
20 Encryption as a Human Right -
21 Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology -
22 The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic -
III Intelligence -
23 “Affective Computing” Is Not an Oxymoron -
24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior -
25 MIT Collaborative Innovation: It Takes >2 to Tango -
26 Mind over Matter: Brain-Machine Interfaces -
27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World -
28 Between Caves: From Plato to the Brain through the Internet -
29 There Will Be No End of Work -
30 A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob -
31 Measuring the Intelligence of Everything -
32 Touching the Soul of Michelangelo -
IV Epilogue -
33 Geometry of a Multidimensional Universe: Weightless Art and the Painting of the Void - Name Index
- Subject Index
