The world is about to change and if you feel a little overwhelmed or you're not sure what to make,

is it a sci-fi movie? Is any of the stuff possible drones that can kill people automatically and

identify people? Our social media is Google nudging us one way or another. What does it mean to

even have privacy? Gene splicing, making genetically perfect children. What is the future? You don't

want to miss my conversation today with technology policy fellow from Young Voices. He's also the

executive director of the Institute for Advancing Prosperity. It's a Canadian nonprofit organization

focusing on the social impacts of technology. He graduated from the University of Manchester where

his dissertation was on the impact of artificial intelligence. So how do we navigate all of these

pitfalls of these revolutionary technologies? What does the world look like in a year, five years,

ten years? What are the benefits? What are the safeguards to liberty? We are experiencing now

emerging technology that is going to change all of our lives. What does it mean for you? Our conversation

Ryan Garana.

So let me get a feel for you before we go into this.

I am someone who believes that there are two possibilities and maybe a mixture of the two,

but I think it's going to lean hard one way or another. That the future is going to provide mankind

this new technology with more freedom experiences that we can't even imagine now.

Literally in ten years our life will be completely different and it could be fantastic.

It also could either be the biggest prison or the end of humans as they are today.

Which camp are you in? I would say I'm in neither camp. I think both of those are far-flung

possibilities and if we look at technological advance throughout history it's always been that

as soon as a new technology comes out it causes mass panic, it causes a lot of crisis. One of the

most famous examples would be the printing press. As soon as the printing press comes out you completely

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