I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

Of course I have other interests, but on the other hand, science is a lifestyle in the sense that it's a combination of profession and hobby.

Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.