Uploaded November 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
The earliest computer scientists envisioned computers as a way to supplement our own limited human intelligence. They did not necessarily realize that a global computer network was required to realize that dream. But as computers and the internet have become integral to our lives, it is important to understand how they both complicate and challenge our human capabilities. Computers can complement us—or they can control us. The choice is ours.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
The earliest computer scientists envisioned computers as a way to supplement our own limited human intelligence. They did not necessarily realize that a global computer network was required to realize that dream. But as computers and the internet have become integral to our lives, it is important to understand how they both complicate and challenge our human capabilities. Computers can complement us—or they can control us. The choice is ours.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
