The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.
First it was a heavenly body—a beacon, or a world, a place where no one could possibly go. Then, from 1969 to 1972, twelve people landed there in spaceships. On behalf of all humanity, they said. Is it time to go back?
A History, A Theory, A Flood Winner of the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. The Information is so ambitious, illuminating and sexily theoretical that it will amount to aspirational reading for many of those who have the mettle to tackle it. Don’t make the mistake of reading it quickly...
When 21st-century historians look back at the breakdown of the United States patent system, they will see a turning point in the case of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com and their special invention: “The patented One Click® feature."