Jaron Lanier: Computers Can’t Replace Us
At the Actors’ Gang, Jaron Lanier greeted his audience as no other Zócalo audience has ever been greeted: “Hello, humans.” It was an appropriate way for Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary and author of You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, to begin to explain why humans still matter in a computer-obsessed age. Exploring everything from what he calls the first computer – dating back to the ancient world – to why the iPad won’t save the world, Lanier argued that crowds may not be so wise, everything doesn’t …
