Computers are Not Alive

We have been bamboozled by our Computers into thinking they are alive. And they can do anything we can do, and do it better. Really!

Actually, our Computers have not done this - but our clever Software Developers (or Programmers) who have made them seem to be supernatural.

But I have to go back in time, to when the Industrial Revolution hit us - and made us stupid. You do not have to be intelligent to work in an Assembly Line. Stupid people were a better fit here, and it was not long before they became most of the population.

They became stupid, but unaware of this. And very sensitive about this - if anyone says anything about it, they get very upset.

This became the dominant motivation behind the formation of the Office. Where stupid people made their fellow-workers stupid also. Things did not look good.

But then the Computer appeared! And changed everything.

There were many software companies, in the Nineties - none of them very bright. The next twenty years, most of them went out of business - because they could not compete with the smart software companies (Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook) that appeared. These became very profitable.

An entire industry had become intelligent! And people assumed intelligence could be engineered into the tool that made this possible - the Computer.

This seemed possible with Artificial Intelligence (and its many offspring) that appeared to make the Computer intelligent. But only seemed to make it intelligent.

Most of the population had been left far behind (somewhere in the Fifties) and had no idea what was going on. A huge gap appeared between those who knew, and those that did not know.

And this gap could not be bridged.