Silicon Valley could learn a thing or two from the Amish.
He speculated that most of what humans call “intelligence” is really just the brain’s ability to filter irrelevance out of the constant barrage of information it receives every second.
“Rather than trying to augment reality, maybe the future is decimated reality,” he said.
By “decimated reality,” Wright means technology that can do even more filtering than the brain already does automatically, and thereby show less information, not more. So, car commuters might have a filter between themselves and the road that blocks out all road signs except the ones that matter to them.