Episode 19 - Technology & Us

Published: Aug. 9, 2019, 1 p.m.

In this episode of Parra Pods Katherine & Nisa discuss books about the relationship between humans and technology in this IT-saturated world. Join them while they talk about the future of AI, the impact of social media, the relationship between our private selves and our digital avatars and eroding trust in traditional institutions.

 

Some of the books discussed in this podcast include:

 

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark. Penguin Random House, 2017.

 

Net loss: the inner life in the digital age by Sebastian Smee. Quarterly Essay No. 72, 2018

 

Who can you trust? How technology brought us together and why it might drive us apart by Rachel Botsman. Public Affairs, 2017