Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.
Predictor: Debray, Regis
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Wired magazine, Andrew Joscelyne interviews French radical theoretician Regis Debray, who has created a discipline he calls “mediology” in his investigation of how abstract ideas can become world-changing ideologies. Joscelyne quotes Debray saying: ”Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Human-Machine Interaction
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Revolution in the Revolution: In the ’60s Regis Debray Fought Beside Che Guevara in Bolivia. Today, His Obsession Isn’t Ideology – it’s Mediology
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.01/debray_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney