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And did your early experience make you "foresee" the future negative developments? Reading back into those days, the biggest fear seems to be the loss of jobs a
by return1 7y ago
And did your early experience make you "foresee" the future negative developments? Reading back into those days, the biggest fear seems to be the loss of jobs and human isolation, nobody predicted privacy. Making highly speculative policy predictions and then basing decisions upon them runs the risk of attacking the wrong problems at the wrong time or retarding progress for the wrong reasons.
- sgt101 7y agoYes, there are risks in foresight and avoidance. Drivers can swerve into oncoming traffic and so forth. However I posit that for every driver that swerves into danger there are scores or more who swerve out of harm's way. The point of my post was that I did not foresee, nor did almost anyone, but we were idealistic and as a community we had not had the pervasive impact that Computer Science has now had on people's lives. We now have a far greater resource, experience and responsibility to innovate responsibly and with care. Delinquent and careless research that creates harm is unacceptable.