¶ Computers As Specialists
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There is now a strong intuition of democratic society that comprehensivity must be regained wherefore general studies programs are emerging in strength. At the December 1962 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science a research paper was read which showed that biological species and nations which have become extinct did so because of their becoming overspecialized. It has now developed that a prime distinction between humans and computers as intelligence machines is that the computers can easily excel as specialists, whereas the unique characteristic of the human intellect which may never be approached is that of the Universe-long complexity of feedback comprehensivity which could only be matched by a complex computer which had been building up its regeneratively introduced variable strands braiding for a period of several billion Earth years. This temporary human advantage of a few billion years’ lead is about to be widely discovered and will be one of the prime strategic considerations of man’s meager conscious contribution to forward events of universal evolution.
