For decades, Silicon Valley anticipated the moment when a new technology would come along and change everything.
It would unite human and machine, probably for the better but possibly for the worse, and split history into before and after.
One possibility is that people would add a computer’s processing power to their own innate intelligence, becoming supercharged versions of themselves.
A self-aware superhuman machine could design its own improvements faster than any group of scientists, setting off an explosion in intelligence.
Listen to the extravagant claims and wild assertions issuing from Silicon Valley, and it seems the long-promised virtual paradise is finally at hand.
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Silicon, Silicon Valley