“Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide, but the eradication of war, disease, and poverty would be high on anyone's list. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last.” HumansMayWarMightWould BeLastsPovertyAchieveEventsProductsOffersDiseaseCreatingToolsListsArtificial IntelligenceHuman HistoryCivilisationHuman Intelligence Author:Stephen Hawking
“The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.” HumansHas BeensTwoFactsRunningClassCenturyEventsRevolutionCapitalismHistoricalChinaRussiaCommunistEstablishmentWorking ClassHuman HistoryTwentieth CenturyHistorical Events Author:Grover Furr
“I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.” WantHumansPersonsIdeasWholeStoriesMotivationFeltEventsTruth IsReflectionConnectionsLaysHistorianHuman History Author:Tom Hanks
“Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its efficiency. Its worth depends on the use that is made of it... For the first time in human history we have available to us the ability to communicate simultaneously with millions of our fellowmen, to furnish entertainment, instruction, widening vision of national problems and national events. An obligation rests on us to see that it is devoted to real service and to develop the material that is transmitted into that which is really worthwhile.” FirstsHumansDoeMadeRealUseProblemLyingValuesAbilityForgetVisionMillionsEventsMaterialsDependsFirst TimeEntertainmentCommunicateAvailableObligationInstructionWorthwhileDevotedEfficiencyHuman HistoryAbility To Communicate Author:Herbert Hoover
“WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.” HumansStillsMemoriesEventsHuman HistoryWwiiExaggeration Author:Chris Cleave