Homework #10

The lord of the machine: big data as divination.

The relationship between the contemporary man and machine could be described as a mutual slavery. The necessity to solve complexities built up in many stratification and multi disciplines application, has brought the construction of places, virtual or real, where data are collected and organized outside human brain. So machines works as pure slaves that only works for storage with a little progressive performance. It seems that men memory and calculation possibilities are too narrow confronting the contemporary challenges: he needs to concentrate in something else, conceptualizing and not memorizing. In this relationship men, abusing the capacity of the machines have forgotten the creative construction of knowledge, working as an assembler of copy and paste information, without concerning the capability of shifting the boundaries of the fields of knowledge.

So how man and machines are collaborating in the contemporary? They are by now fully separated regarding each other as a mystery for both parties (which are the manners machines carry on calculation? few people know it. Which is human nature? Machines can only explain part of the problem). And mystery advocates divination, and not knowledge. So integration could be a way, where machines are plugs-in and extend human power. So mystery disappear and remains a natural progress, moving humans in his deeper dream: the Nietzsche Superhuman.