In the course of a few decades, we have advanced from creating machines that help us physically to ones that “help” us cognitively. Intelligence was the first area we found success in, intuition is following quite quickly. What is next, and where will it take us?
It has been just over a year since I wrote “A responsible meritocracy“. My view was that meritocracy had indeed played a huge role in dislodging systemic inequalities (e.g. ethnicity, religion, even economic background) but not only is it not an ideal system, it is now widening the gulf between the haves and have-nots, and even […]