The Farmer Who Saw the Future In 1863, a New Zealand newspaper published an eerie letter titled “Darwin Among the Machines.” It came from a humble English sheep farmer, Samuel Butler, who could see the storm brewing long before Silicon Valley was even a concept. His warning? Humanity was “creating our own successors.” Machines, he said, would one day surpass us in power, intellect, and morality. He predicted the day when “we shall find ourselves the inferior race.” And folks, that day is here. Butler envisioned a future where humans would serve machines the way dogs and horses serve us. He feared a time when machines would gain complete dominance, becoming self-regulating, self-acting entities with unimaginable capabilities. Sound familiar? It…
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