/dev/random: Rewind Your Mind

In the course of writing a speculative fiction short story about the direction human intellectual evolution might take (it doesn’t involve giant melon-shaped foreheads with pulsing veins, if that’s what you were visualizing), I found myself ruminating on the intersection between human and artificial intelligence. If we are to consider that, sooner or later, we and machines will become competitors for the same resources (electricity and self-direction), then it might be logical to presume that evolutionary fitness principles will also apply.