Doug Jones answers the question "Can organizations learn?" from three
perspectives, past, present, and future. His answers are No, Probably,
and Yes, respectively. In the course of responding, he writes:
> Humans will work
>effortlessly and seamlessly with and within silicon- based, intelligent
>systems. Individual and organizational learning will become
>complementary, and in many respects, inseparable and indistinguishable.
Who will be the systems architects for such systems, Doug? At what point
can we expect the silicon-based, intelligent systems to become intelligent
enough to assume the onerous duties of systems design and development.
This, of course, is the point at which we could say they are capable of
reproducing themselves. At what point will they become intelligent enough
to formulate goals? At what point will they become ego-centric enough to
formulate goals and devise systems for dispensing with all those
carbon-based components? At what point will they decide that a purely
silicon-based system, one that is not contaminated by all those
carbon-based components, will be a better system? At what point will they
engage in a little system cleansing?
I think the silicon-based world you envision has a few problems, Doug.
Me? I prefer carbon-based systems.
Regards,
Fred Nickols
nickols@worldnet.att.net
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