6 мая 2018 г.

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

Professor Leonard Kleinrock: This particular machine is so ugly on the inside, it is beautiful. It has a unique odor. A delicious old odor from all the old parts. It consists of modems, CPU logic units, memory, power supply... all the things you need to make an efficient computer work... This machine served as the first node of the Internet for decades.

Professor Leonard Kleinrock: All we wanted to do was log in from our computer to a computer 400 miles to the north, up in Stanford Research Institute.

Professor Leonard Kleinrock: To log in you have to type "LOG" and that machine is smart enough to type the "IN". Now to make sure this was happening properly, we had our programmer and the programmer up north connected by a telephone handset just to make sure it was going correctly. So Charlie typed the L and he said "You get the L?" Bill said, "Yup, I got the L." He typed the O. "Get the O?" "Yup, I got the O". He typed the G. "Get the G?" Crash! The SRI computer crashed. So the first message ever on the Internet was "Lo" as in "Lo and Behold". We couldn't have asked for a more succinct, more powerful, more prophetic message than "Lo".

Professor Leonard Kleinrock: Today if you would burn CDs of the worldwide data flow for one single day and stack them up to a pile, this pile would reach up to Mars and back...

Sebastian Thrun: When a self-driving car makes a mistake automatically all the other cars know about it, including all future unborn cars, will never make that same mistake again. Which means the ability for cars to develop an artificial intelligence is so much greater than the ability of people to keep up with them.

Werner Herzog: Could this team eventually beat the real Brazilian football team?
Joydeep Biswas: That is the goal of RoboCup. That is, by 2050 to have a team of soccer playing robots which can defeat the FIFA world champions.

Joydeep Biswas: Yes, we do. We do love robot 8.

Lesli Catsouras: I have always believed that the Internet is a manifestation of the Antichrist, of evil itself. It is the spirit of evil. And I feel like it's running through... everybody on earth and it's... claiming its victories in those people that are also evil.

Tom: The real danger to gaming is when... you... stopped being present in the real world more often than I was in the game world. If... If you get to the point where... you're thinking about the game more than you're thinking about real life... what you're gonna do for food, what you're gonna do the next day or two, you're not thinking about a relationship or a job or a career. If you're thinking about the game... it's a problem... because eventually it'll get in the way of everything real.

Lawrence Krauss: If there's a solar flare... if you destroyed the information fabric of the world right now, modern civilization would collapse. Hundreds of millions of people will die. Billions of people will die. The world will become, for people like you and me, unimaginably ugly, difficult, and... there's great likelihood that I couldn't survive.


Lawrence Krauss: If the Internet shuts down, people will not remember how they used to live before that.

Jonathan Zittrain: If you disrupt those networks I imagine, what do they say? "Civilization is always about four square meals away from utter ruin"? That's something that it wouldn't be bad to prepare for...

Professor Leonard Kleinrock: I deeply regret the fact that deep critical thinking and imaginative thinking, that creative thinking is lost. In my opinion, computers and in some sense the Internet are the worst enemy of deep critical thinking. Youth of today are using machines to basically replace their examination of the things they're observing. They don't understand what they're looking at or what they're hearing or what they're learning. They depend upon the Internet to tell them and decipher it. They look at numbers instead of ideas. They fail to understand concepts, and this is a problem. My hope would be there are still going to be the appeal of deep immersion in something, that through the school system we still subject our kids to, we can really to turn them onto its charms so they become intrinsically self-motivated to pursue it. Whether we use science or ancient Greek or philosophy, it's those tools that are important. Those are the things that people are gonna be able to use in the future.

Sebastian Thrun: The actual information they learn in school won't be important because it'll be dwarfed by the information that's coming out on the Internet every single day....

Lawrence Krauss: There's a playful project called the Wikipedia Emergency Project that if there's ever going to be possibly a world changing event, a big volcanic eruption, Wikipedia volunteers are supposed to start printing out Wikipedia pages madly and storing the paper in places that their heirs could find it later.

Lawrence Krauss: In fact, most science fiction missed the most important thing about the present world, which is the Internet itself. They had flying cars, they had rocket ships. None of that exists, but the Internet governs our lives today.

Lawrence Krauss: In fact it was developed so that scientists could communicate scientists like me could communicate with each other without knowing where the other person was or even who the other person was. There's a famous cartoon from The New Yorker which says "On the Internet no one knows if you're a dog". And in the future you won't know if you're communicating with dogs or robots or people, and it won't matter. But becoming your own filter will be the challenge of the future. Because the filter isn't provided with you. There's no controls on the Internet. No matter what governments do or no matter what industries do, the Internet is gonna propagate... out of control and people will have to be their own controls.

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