In his 2010 masterpiece, Nicholas Carr wrote about how the Internet changed everything. He envisioned machines becoming human and humans becoming machines. Reflecting upon the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the machines develop human traits, while the astronauts develop robotic traits. Carr stated, “That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.” Futurists John Smart and Paul Taylor

Once while typing “The United States of America” I found autocorrect completed my words. Autocorrect an algorithm driven by artificial intelligence made the passage read, “The Ignited States of America.” Given the situation where rewritten history says American slaves felt lucky to learn useful skills, and where recent gains in gay and women’s rights are eroding, I thought that “The Ignited States of America” was perhaps not a bad autocorrection. We rely on autocorrect, artificial intelligence, and algorithms (the 3As)