Humans Need Not Apply: Artificial Intelligences Impact on Our Future

Published: Sept. 19, 2015, 11:59 p.m.

Show #102, Hour 1 | Guest host Ben Hess interviews Jerry Kaplan. Jerry Kaplan is widely known in the computer industry as a serial entrepreneur, technical innovator, author, and futurist. Kaplan may be best know for his key role in defining the tablet computer industry as founder of GO Corporation in 1987. Two decades before the iPad, Kaplan foresaw that computers could take a different form than the then-ubiquitous desktop PCs and he envisioned a new kind of computer that would be used like a \u2018tablet of paper\u2019, with a touch-sensitive screen. Many of GO\u2019s concepts were ultimately incorporated into other early portable computers such as the Palm Pilot, The Apple Newton, and most recently, IOS products like Apple\u2019s iPad | Show Summary: Serial entrepreneur, futurist, and author Jerry Kaplan explores the positive possibilities and societal challenges of the pending Artificial Intelligence Age in Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence