“ A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn. ”
The Google self and the Facebook self, in other words, are pretty different people. There's a big difference between you are what you click and you are what you share.
~ Eli Pariser
Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The ability to walk this line – to adjust to the demands of different environments and modalities – is one of human cognition's most astonishing traits. Artificial intelligence has yet to come anywhere close.
By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.
Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days
