During the short trip, with my eyelids beginning to droop, I love to eavesdrop on week-ending philosophical insights from one business person to another. The following event took place on the way to O'Hare. We don't get any magazines or journals for the staff. We subscribe to a service. And they don't learn anything either, I thought.
Computers can only carry out a sequence of unambiguously specified logical instructions.
It is impossible for me to specify logically all of the things of interest to me in a magazine. No computer can scan a magazine and free-associate. I guess that's the real problem. Logic never made innovation. Insight, serendipity, and fortuitousness are the paths of innovation.