The Social Mind Self Portrait - DALL-E Several years ago, I sat down and tried to list all the people who had influenced me somehow. When I gave up, there were 200 names on the list. After all, there are 1,000 books in my library, all with indexes listing influences on the author. But that was "old tech." In 1969, I imagined a computer system that would hold all the world's knowledge. It would have a natural language interface, and you could talk to it like a person. But it would be nothing like CHAT-GPT. Until recently, I have taken pride in my "visionary" imaginings of something vaguely like the World Wide Web. Really, my idea was a talking Wikipedia, not much more. But as time passed, we started to worry about "information overload." Having all human knowledge at our fingertips was a mixed blessing ... But that's now "old tech." The picture above was created by DALL-E, the sister application of CHAT-GPT.  Both of these applications ref...