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- The improvement in human knowledge and survival potential
- following the invention of writing was immense. There was also
- an improvement in self-reliance: It is possible to learn at least
- the basics of an art or a science from a book and not be
- dependent on the lucky accident that there is a nearby master
- craftsman to whom we may apprentice ourselves.
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- @TEXT{When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be
- viewed not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing
- good for humanity. I believe the same will be said of those who
- are today devising computers and programs at the edge of machine
- intelligence. The next major structural development in human
- intelligence is likely to be a partnership between intelligent
- humans and intelligent machines (from The Dragons of Eden by Carl
- Sagan, pages 224-5).}
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- @COMMENT{TEXT1.MSS}
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