The Automation of Invention.
The inventors of the future will write descriptions of the problems they want to solve and then give those descriptions to computers to figure out the solutions. This process can be called “inventing by wishing.” The problem description provided by the human is similar to a wish; the computer is li...
| Published in: | Futurist Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 22 - 28 |
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World Future Society
July/August 2009
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