Social scientists could have been mobilized from the beginning, making a plan for when you had it. I would have called fred smith, but i fed ax. Friction in human relationships is what makes people understand each other. You can't live in a surveillance society and expect it to be a democratic society. There's no intimacy without privacyif if you scrape my date, i'm afraid to speak up without my speaking up. These are all things that stand in front of us that we have to fix. And they have nothing to do wthwith technologists getting things friction free with their programming.
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.