Hello everybody. My name is Rebecca Parsons. We're here with the ThoughtWorks

Podcasts. Today we have all of our co-hosts and we would like to introduce you to some

significant shifts that we see in the technology community.

We call them the seismic shifts. First, let's all introduce ourselves. Again, I'm Rebecca Parsons.

I'm Mike Mason. I'm Neil Ford. I'm Jean-McDefini. I'm Alexei Lesbos.

So the first shift that we're going to talk about is something we call Humanity Augmented.

And this is the storyline

where people and machines are working together to produce greater outcomes than before. And this

isn't something that's new. You know, people have worked alongside machinery to boost our capacity,

you know, ever since the Industrial Revolution

and all that kind of stuff. But today, really, what's happening is more of a knowledge

revolution when it comes to what the machines can help us do. Humanity augmented is kind

of a positive storyline around what's happening with people and machines rather than the

stories that you often hear about, which is, you know, everybody's going to have their jobs

replaced by automation and, you know, going to have to find new things to do. So Humanity Augmented

is really people and machines working together to the best of their strengths.

So people are very good at applying their experience and kind of intuition and sort of native

understanding of all the kind of complex things going on in a particular situation.

Machines are very good at crunching data. They're very good at looking things up very quickly.

The way we sort of talk about it often is that machines are going to help us find needles in the haystack,

and then people are going to look at the needles that the machines have found and then figure out which ones are the most appropriate to apply. This

concept of working together and teaming between humans and AIs is actually quite popular today

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