Recent discussions about the role of technology in society have oscillated between very short term worries ("what are smart phones doing to our brains?") and very long term nightmares ("will artificial intelligence replace humanity?"). Left out of these discussions are the next twenty years: our horizon for making concrete plans. The most important question for this medium term might be: will we create enough new technology to sustain our society? Instead of taking it for granted (or doomed), we must go back to the future and build it ourselves.
Speaker:
Peter Thiel; Palantir Technologies; Thiel Foundation; Founders Fund; PayPal co-founder
With Discussants:
Antoine Picon, G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Margo Seltzer, Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science and a Harvard College Professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Harvard Law School
Moderated by:
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies
This event is organized by the Program on Science, Technology, and Society, at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Graduate School of Design, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. This lecture and discussion is free and open to the public.
Mar 25, 2015.
