"What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process"
- Seth Lloyd
About this Quote
The quote suggests that computer systems can refining huge amounts of info, which approaches the quantity of details that human beings can refine. The speaker likewise indicates that this technological innovation has actually affected culture by creating devices that are highly efficient in dealing with information.
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"I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions"
"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world"
