The Hand is the Window on to the Mind

The Artificial Thinking machine has arrived. It promises – or threatens – to do all the hard work for us. AI has collected/gathered/stolen phantastillions of images, words, facts. But it has not been able to collect our experiences – the things we know without ever having said them, read or written them or drawn pictures or taken photographs of them.

Our cognitive abilities have grown over thousands of years and now we are in danger of losing them as a result of wiping on glass panes only and waiting for an instant solution to all our problems. But something is missing: We may see the world with our eyes, read facts, exchange instant messages across the globe, but we still “grasp” things with our hands.