"They think they do. They have the cultural high ground, ok? But they're going to bring us the future," he says of tech-savvy young people. "And it'll crates and problems, but we'll create technologys, it'll solve those problems." The author also talks about where technology is heading educationally in his new book 'The Future Is Now'
Psychologist and author Sherry Turkle of MIT talks about her book, The Empathy Diaries, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The Empathy Diaries is a memoir about Turkle's secretive family and how that secrecy turned Turkle into an acute observer, skilled at revealing the story behind the story. She also chronicles the early days of artificial intelligence and the evolution of the computer. Topics in this conversation include the challenges of family, the role of technology in our lives, the limits of artificial intelligence, and the importance of Bambi.