“The more interested we became in writing, the less we developed and sustained the relative memory and oral assets. These losses affected our culture, and were thus magnified over each generation.

The more interested we become in machine-assisted thinking and perception the less we are developing our relational, intellectual, and perceptual capacities (in general). The outcome of this trend is not good.

Machines may soon surpass humans in demonstrable intelligence not because they will be more intelligent than us, but because we have become less intelligent than them. We should be far more wary of our vulnerability to being remade in the images that the roles that our inventions project upon us.”

— an anonymous informant