Where Does Authority Reside In A Networked, Artificially Intelligent World? | David Kirkpatrick
Hidden Forces
Demetri Kofinas
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this Techno Forces segment, David Kirkpatrick joins Demetri Kofinas for a conversation on the evolving landscape of our technological society. How do we protect our privacy and freedom in a networked world controlled by a handful of tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon? How will advances in augmented reality, virtual reality, and brain-machine interfaces change our notions of humanity? How do we prepare for a future where most of today's jobs will be done by machines? Are there limits to what technology can solve?
Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to this Tech Forces segment of the Hidden Forces podcast, where I speak with |
| 0:14.5 | professionals, academics, and anyone else with a technological perspective on current events. |
| 0:20.6 | My guest for this segment is journalist and commentator David Kirkpatrick. |
| 0:24.6 | David is the author of the Facebook Effect and the founder of Teconomy Media, |
| 0:28.6 | which seeks to promote conversations at the highest levels of enterprise, |
| 0:33.6 | academia, and government about the role of technology in social progress. He writes at |
| 0:39.0 | tachancom. He's a contributing editor to Bloomberg Television and a member of the Council on Foreign |
| 0:44.9 | Relations. David Kirkpatrick, welcome to Hidden Forces. Thanks, Dimitri. Good to be here. |
| 0:50.4 | It's great to have you, man. Long time they'll see. I know. You were at the conference, |
| 0:53.3 | which just ended. How did you feel about that? How did you feel about that? Oh they'll see. I know. You were at the conference, which just ended. |
| 0:55.9 | How did you feel about that? How did you feel about that? |
| 0:59.5 | Oh, feel really good about it. It was probably the best one we've ever done. And we've had close to 20 conferences in total, and it's the eighth time we've done that flagship conference. |
| 1:06.4 | I don't think you even mentioned the conference in the intro, but it's the Techonomy 2017 conference just |
| 1:11.3 | happened in Half Moon Bay, California. It was from Sunday through Tuesday. And like I said, |
| 1:18.3 | the eighth time we've done that two-day flagship deep dive conference. And it was certainly |
| 1:24.2 | one of our best, if not the best. It was really, and I feel more clear about what we're doing with it than I ever have, I'd say. |
| 1:32.4 | What do you mean? What do you feel more clear about? |
| 1:33.9 | I don't know if you noticed that I began the conference by a list of things that we believe, |
| 1:39.6 | and that really kind of crystallized a new direction for us that, you know, we're not just about bringing people together. |
| 1:49.3 | We're also about advocating for certain ideas that we really believe in. |
| 1:54.1 | And we're advocates. |
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