#1634 AI and Quantum Computing, Ready or Not

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Clay and frequent guest David Horton talk about the coming Artificial Intelligence revolution. Like it or not, we are already wading (if not rushing) into that brave new world, and we all better come to terms with what’s ahead of us. Horton’s portfolio at Radford University includes questions of technology, appropriate technology, and the laws of unintended consequences. Horton briefly defines AI and Quantum Computing and suggests how these things are already transforming life. Clay’s concerns are primarily about the future of privacy and intellectual property. The program begins with an examination of how Thomas Jefferson aggregated information for multiple purposes and how the third president might respond to the infinite rain of information in our time. Clay and David also discuss the implications of apps like Chat GPT for the future of education.

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0:00.0	Well, everyone, welcome to the new year. This is my introduction to this week's podcast edition
0:04.2	of Listening to America. It was quite a year. I read Ulysses with a group of young friends,
0:12.1	the hardest novel that I've ever read. This is my fourth time and by far my most successful
0:20.0	time.
0:23.9	It began when someone on one of my journeys said,
0:26.0	Professor, why would I read Ulysses?
0:27.8	And the rest followed.
0:33.0	I started my Travel to Charlie tour on April 27th and was gone for 210 days.
0:35.7	It was an amazing adventure. You've read some parts of it on the
0:41.4	listening to America website and our Facebook site. I have been back now since just before
0:47.8	Thanksgiving and I've been working. I'm getting ready for the winter retreats at Laxasat
0:52.5	Lodge, one on two Shakespeare plays, and the other one on
0:55.4	Walden and Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire. I did my annual Lewis and Cartrip. I did my annual trip to
1:01.8	Europe. This one was literary England. It was quite a year. I got to hike to the confluence of the
1:08.1	green in Colorado rivers with my friends Dennis and Susan in Utah.
1:13.6	I saw Arches National Park for the first time in 20 years and Canyonlands for the first time in 25.
1:20.6	I traveled Route 66. My pickup groaned its way over to Hatchapy Pass.
1:26.6	I saw old friends anew along the trail.
1:29.7	I made friends along the trail.
1:31.7	Life-changing experiences have occurred, and this is just year one, the shakedown year,
1:36.6	getting to know how to do all the things, all the deliverables, as we like to say.
1:42.2	And now begins 2025, and this will be an even bigger year,
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