Here Come the Social Machines

For as much as we have become aware that the machine is becoming more like man, we are blissfully unaware of how much man is become more like machine. We’re seeing more and more research – not much, however, surfacing to mainstream consciousness — that our device addictions are taxing our neural anatomy, limiting our ability to perform, limiting our ability to relate to others. So, in the end, what has been cut off from our vision is not only the coming of smarter, more useful social machines, but the extent to which we have become social machines as well.