We are living through one of history's periods of great anti-intellectualism, but there is something new about this age-old recurrent phenomenon in our era. The historic correlation between enjoying thinking and being good at it, traditionally embodied by human intellectuals, is being broken by computers. A two-way dialectic has turned into a three-way one, and we can ask a very clever question: are computers on the side of intellectuals or anti-intellectuals?
Intellectualism in a Digital Milieu
Intellectualism in a Digital Milieu
Intellectualism in a Digital Milieu
We are living through one of history's periods of great anti-intellectualism, but there is something new about this age-old recurrent phenomenon in our era. The historic correlation between enjoying thinking and being good at it, traditionally embodied by human intellectuals, is being broken by computers. A two-way dialectic has turned into a three-way one, and we can ask a very clever question: are computers on the side of intellectuals or anti-intellectuals?