This prediction is attenuated if bilingualism in itself has high value or status as a human capability [54], permitting bilinguals to occupy a social position that is not available to monolinguals.
Recently at an SRI laboratory here, two Stanford University graduate students, John Ulmen and Dan Aukes, put the finishing touches on a significant step toward human capabilities: a four-finger hand that will grasp with a human's precise sense of touch.
That's why involuntary unemployment represents such a waste of human capabilities and loss of productive output for the economy as a whole.
The Internet is widely used for applications that employ a range of human capabilities.
In response it might be urged that a conception of human capabilities might be controversial but true and, if known to be true, appropriately imposed by government policy.
To cope with vastification, evolutionary computation offers a solution, vastly amplifying human capabilities (it can be considered as an "intelligence amplifier," in the same way that muscular power is amplified by a traction engine, etc).
For Markoff, the difference between these two fields, A.I. and I.A., is the difference between a future in which human capabilities are enhanced by technology and one in which humans are made effectively obsolete, versioned out by the consequences of our own ingenuity.
Previous research highlights an intensifying interplay between human capabilities and the capacity of workplace computing.
While the types of human rights invoked in research governance policies vary, often policies have focused on protecting against individual exploitation and harm, rather than on promoting social and economic development that situates genomics research and applications as a public good that enhances human capabilities and economic productivity (Ashcroft 2007).
Until EBM reconnects with its values and allows that its purpose is to extend human capabilities within a constrained environment, it will remain open to the accusation that it has lost its soul and come adrift from its founding humanitarian principles.
