Book Titles

Average is Over
Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

By Tyler Cowen

Year Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-95373-9
Categories: Future, Intelligence, Technology

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In a wealthy society, sometimes it’s just enough to get by and have a good time. It may not sound adventurous or even very American, but we’re going to be seeing more of that in the years to come.

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Games reflect and bring together modern trends in cognition, entertainment, education, and the rapid processing of information.

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A particular personality trait that doesn’t come easily to everyone will be needed in a lot of situations: the ability to handle or maybe just ignore the ongoing appearance of stressful situations.

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People know that they need to take chances in complex situations, and they will buy tactical computer programs that help them do this.

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Average is over. Some real-world interactions will become a lot simpler and call for conservatism and simple rule-following behavior, while others will become fare more complicated and extreme.

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The case for keeping it simple is plain: Just do what the machine tells you to.

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…it is easy to imagine intelligent machines changing the way we interact with one another and making significant parts of our world a lot more unpredictable and a lot more passionate.

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The model is humans and machines working together and each making use of previously uncelebrated and underutilized abilities.

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…the machines embody the principles of man-machine collaboration at their core – even when they are playing alone.

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…direct man-machine cooperation, focused on making very specific evaluations or completing very specific tasks, will revolutionize much of our economy…

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