Are We Alone - Early Adapters
You are one-of-a-kind, unique and indispensible. Oh, wait … never mind! It seems that computer over there can do what you do … only faster and with greater accuracy.
Yes, it’s silicon vs. carbon as intelligent, interactive machines out-perform humans in tasks beyond data-crunching. We’re not only building our successors, we’re developing emotional relationships with them. Find out why humans are hard-wired to be attached to androids.
Also, the handful of areas where humans still rule… as pilots, doctors, and journalists. Scratch that! Journalism is automated too – tune in for a news story written solely by a machine.
Guests:
- Dickson Despommier – Emeritus professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University, author of The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
- William Gibson – Author, most recently, of Zero History
- Joel Cohen – Mathematician and biologist at Rockefeller University
- David DeGusta – Paleoanthropologist at the Paleoanthropology Institute in California
Permalink: http://radio.seti.org/episodes/Early_Adapters
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