Thanks for the link. I hadn't read the article before but I know the author, though down here in Catholic Bavaria the Süddeutsche Zeitung is preferred. Funny, Herr Schirrmacher seems to have taken something else away from Ray Kurzweil's latest spot of technical arrogance than I. I will happily admit that it was an intriguing read, but I am by no means basing 'our' future round it. Ray created so many clauses in his prophesies, that he seemed to just reinforce that the future doesn't exist.
As for Frank's thoughts on Europe, well, it certainly contains a grain of truth, though I dare say that many Europeans have not lost sight of the importance of good ol' fashioned learning (without digital help), as appose to them being Luddites. The digital myopia which has spread across America will, I hope, not find the same footing in Europe. Otherwise a dystopia of idiot savants, thinkers but non-thinkers, worse than those envisioned by Burgees, Bradbury or Orwell may be on the cards. I'd prefer to 'clumsily avoid the issue' than place all my hopes in it.
I'm currently reading a book entitled 'Unnatural Selection' which also contains lots of 'very slippery slopes' as Kurzweil would put it.
