Artificial stupidity. Salon interviews techno-visionary Jaron Lanier who, at 38, has gone impressively sour on a computer-driven future. For one thing, he says that software is brittle and cannot keep up with ongoing advances in processing power. He views with contempt the half-baked stabs at artificial intelligence touted as the newest advances in most commercial software. His “One-half a manifesto” at The Edge provokes responses from luminary techno-heads: George Dyson, Freeman Dyson, Cliff Barney, Bruce Sterling, Rodney Brooks, Henry

Warwick, Kevin Kelly, Margaret Wertheim, John Baez, Lee Smolin, Stewart Brand,

Rodney Brooks,Lee Smolin, and Daniel Dennett.