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Reminds me of that scene at 58:00 minutes into the [Link] movie Animal House where a serious internal conversation takes place.
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Orwellian - this time 'Big Auto' spying on you. I wonder what data is sent back, and to whom? And how is it interpreted to use against you?
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John of Salisbury used this phrase in a treatise on logic called Metalogicon, written in Latin in 1159. The gist of what Salisbury said is:
"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours."
Isaac Newton in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke in 1676, said:
"What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much in several ways, and especially in taking the colors of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
In a couple of million years, when humans are traveling the Galaxy, the descendants of today's monkeys will be building iPhones, Tesla cars and weapons of mass destruction.