Systems are getting so complicated that they’re out of control in a rational sense. The role model for the future of human interaction with machines, if we want to avoid our own destruction and regain control, is to start thinking of our interaction with technology in terms of the intuitive, the irrational.
Predictor: Pauline, Mark
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for Wired magazine, Paul Saffo, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, California, writes: ”Systems are getting so complicated that they’re out of control in a rational sense. The role model for the future of human interaction with machines, if we want to avoid our own destruction and regain control, is to start thinking of our interaction with technology in terms of the intuitive, the irrational.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Human-Machine Interaction
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Out of Control: A Trialogue on Machine Consciousness with Mark Pauline, Manuel De Landa and Mark Dery
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/out.of.control_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney