“With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.” PeopleWellsImportantPoliticalReadingRolesEconomyOur LivesFailingHappenedEconomicMilitaryInformationComfortableMachinesIntelligentFinancialMedicalTitlesOddPhenomenonArtificial IntelligenceArticlesArtificialPhasesIntegratedIntelligent Machines Book:The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence Source: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
“Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.” GivingYearsProblemPainCoursesStudyOur LivesPaperComfortableSittingWeakHipsTherapyInjuryChairsVillageFind MeSedentaryRare ThingsSitting In A Chair Author:Daniel Lieberman
“There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.” PeopleHumansWellsLongEndsHandsChancePowerfulOur LivesFatePlayerComfortablePermanentGood PeoplePrivilegedTwistsHuman HistoryChances AreBad PeopleTwist Of FateRandom ChancePrivileged Life Author:Jeff Greenfield
“We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.” LongEasyBreakPathOur LivesDangerComfortableLegsClimbingBreak A Leg Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.” HumansCommunityExistenceEnvironmentOur LivesComfortableResourcesQuestsHuntersFiniteOur EnvironmentHunter Gatherers Author:Naveen Jain
“If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.” IfsFeelsKindOur LivesPeriodsComfortableSkinsThirdsFourth Author:Anna Quindlen
“The personal boundaries, I think for comedians they're a little bit different anyway, but I think people - feel free to do stuff - It's interesting with comedians because when we walk on stage, oftentimes we're talking about ourselves for an hour and we're talking about very intimate details, so after hearing us for an hour, a lot of people feel very comfortable with us because they feel like they know us and they're our friends because we just told them our innermost secrets and details of our lives for an hour. What they forget is we know absolutely nothing about the audience.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsLittlesDifferentStuffBitsHoursWalksForgetInterestingSecretTalkingAudienceOur LivesStageComfortableLittle BitDetailsHearingBoundariesComedianIntimateAbsolutely Nothing Author:Brad Williams