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SOURCE: War on the Rocks
6/8/2020
The Promise and Risks of Artificial Intelligence: A Brief History
by Rebecca Slayton
Machines have been taking over tasks that otherwise require human intelligence for decades, if not centuries.
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11/5/19
The Internet at 50: The future and “dissolving containers”
by Harlan Lebo
The internet has long been on a path of constant reinvention, with flux being the sole constant. The biggest question of all is: where will digital technology go next?
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10/29/19
The Internet at 50: The Night the Internet Was Born
by Harlan Lebo
If there was a single moment that would define the start of the technology that would become the internet – this was it: the future was born.
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10/15/19
The Internet at 50: Four Steps in Transforming the Digital World
by Harlan Lebo
The internet may have been “born” in October 1969, but it then percolated for years as complex, near-impenetrable masses of data stored in computers around the world. Online technology would evolve for more than two decades before it would become practical for everyone to use.
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