Actually the idea isn't exactly new. Long before the internet and the PC, you used to have a keyboard and a screen connected to a time-sharing mainframe computer by a RS-232 cable.
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]>wrote: > The latest idea from Apple – dunno how advanced it is – is Cloudmac – > the *computer* is in the cloud too. All you have at home is your screen & > keyboard, everything else is Cloud. > > It’s interesting to speculate how this – which, when you think about it, > has to come – will change our ideas and culture of computing and thinking. > > The mobile internet – not that anyone in AGI has yet realised it – > destroys the idea of disengaged / disembodied/ disembodied thinking – > thinking disconnected from the real world. The kind of Chinese room / > Plato’s cave thinking which characterises logicomathematical thought. > > The cloud computer will, I guess, focus our attention on how crucial the > user is to the whole process of computational thinking. At present, AI-ers > think that programs function all by themselves without users – and without > the massive creative input of users’ brains. Just the magical, all > controlling, all powerful algorithmic program. Except that it patently > isn’t. > > The cloud computer will probably make us realise just how massive and > essential the human mind’s contribution is. But all speculations on other > effects welcome. > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/3701026-786a0853> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
