{"id":66,"date":"2009-12-21T18:01:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/TimOnCS\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-12-21T18:01:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:01:57","slug":"commoditization-of-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/2009\/12\/21\/commoditization-of-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Commoditization of Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran into the phrase &#8220;commoditization of intelligence&#8221; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Accelerando-Singularity-Charles-Stross\/dp\/0441014151\">Accelerando (Singularity)<\/a>.  In the book&#8217;s context it is scary enough.  But it is truly scary when it manifests itself today.  Like when knowledge workers are treated like replaceable cogs in a software factory.  Or when programming languages are lumped together with &#8220;it just doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Some technology has almost been commoditized &#8211; like the electric outlets in my house.  Although, &#8220;almost&#8221; in this case means &#8220;you have heard of GFI, surge protection and true-sine wave UPS, right?&#8221;.   &#8220;Commoditization&#8221; in this sense implies a lack of knowlege, a lack of intelligence to distinguish trivial differences from the important differences.  Hence, the shock (irony?) of the phrase &#8220;commoditization of intelligence&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll continue building my own computers, because I find that even with commodity pieces, the complete solution provides an order of magnitude boost in the performance-for-price ratio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran into the phrase &#8220;commoditization of intelligence&#8221; from Accelerando (Singularity). In the book&#8217;s context it is scary enough. But it is truly scary when it manifests itself today. Like when knowledge workers are treated like replaceable cogs in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/2009\/12\/21\/commoditization-of-intelligence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}