Foer also spoke at Google, I believe, about a year or two ago.
Joshua Foer : Thanks.
Joshua Foer : How are ya?
Joshua Foer : I don't know if more complexity is necessarily bad, it's the question it's superficial complexity.
Joshua Foer : Yeah, maybe.
Joshua Foer : Well, so I think this stuff, I think there is still some degree of control that we have over like the conditions in which this stuff is deployed.
Joshua Foer : Alright.
Joshua Foer : Or when Socrates was in academy.
Joshua Foer : Well first of all I would say, I mean I agree with you this is an old story, this is only sort of the latest chapter in a conversation that we've been having truly
Joshua Foer : that they weren't maybe when you were in high school.
Joshua Foer : can't invent anything; that still takes a human mind.
Joshua Foer : What's that?
Joshua Foer : I think if you're a kid growing up I think there are really like reasonable arguments to be made that my nephews who are going to grow up absolutely glued to their
Joshua Foer : Thanks. male #3: I enjoyed your book, by the way, -- Joshua Foer : Thank you.
Joshua Foer : Isn't that exactly the case that I'm making though that, I mean so once we've got the Google goggles that our, I mean I know actually Google goggles is actually
Joshua Foer : lab products which is image search -- male #3: Yes.
Joshua Foer : which I presume is a stalking horse for when that camera's gonna be sort of in my glasses and I'll immediately --
Joshua Foer : be able to search whatever I'm looking at and I'll have met you and I'll actually already know your name and your Facebook profile and --
Joshua Foer : No but the thing is, the question is as we sort of move towards that future where all of this information, there is no latency, in fact it'll be calling up stuff
Joshua Foer : Yeah except people don't seem to be doing that.
Joshua Foer : Um-hum.
Joshua Foer : So I guess one response to that is are you going to be interested in learning information when it is so immediately, shallowly available to you?
Joshua Foer : and if I want to, I take that extra moment to learn what kind of, to identify
Joshua Foer : But he still got a job.
Joshua Foer : I think it's a piece of it.
Joshua Foer : Thank you.
Joshua Foer : really thought of and may borrow from you.
Joshua Foer : Um-hum.
Joshua Foer : so I think you're right.
Joshua Foer : like a really epically big conversation that involved scientists, involved the government, involved farmers, involved consumers, McDonald's, K-Mart --
Joshua Foer : Right.
Joshua Foer : Right, what is better?
Joshua Foer : Um-hum.
Joshua Foer : Um-hum.
Joshua Foer : Um-hum.
Joshua Foer : Um-hum.
Joshua Foer : Yeah.
Joshua Foer : Um-hum.
Joshua Foer : Right.
Joshua Foer : Yes.
Joshua Foer : Have you read my book Moonwalking With Einstein available in the back?
Joshua Foer : Right.
Joshua Foer : Right.
Joshua Foer : Yeah, so this is, I think this is actually the essence of it which is that, so with chess, right?
Joshua Foer : of games, it's that, the causality works in the other direction.
Joshua Foer : by having played lots of games, having been invested in the sport of chess for a long time – male #2: Um-hum.
Joshua Foer : they develop terrific memories for chess because they have this deeper way of thinking -- male #2: Um-hum.
Joshua Foer : more context, they see dynamics, they see structure, they see all sorts of male #2: Um-hum.
Joshua Foer : all sorts of things that I don't see when I look at a chess game.
Joshua Foer : Right.