"Dog Days of Summer" - Scientists posit that the term originated in reference to the star Sirius, which was tracked by the ancient Egyptians to define the period between mid-July to mid-August when the Nile flooded, marking the new year.
Ray Kurzweil predicts that by 2045, computing will be somewhere in the neighborhood of one billion times as powerful as all the human brains on earth. But if these machines are so smart, won’t they achieve some sort of dominion over us? It’s not us versus them. We’ve created these tools to overcome our limitations, and we’ve integrated with them already. A.I. today is not in three or four dark federal intelligence agencies; it’s in billions of mobile devices around the world.