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Podcast: Our Own Devices with Nandagopal Rajan
Episode: Seeing the future, with tech
Description: In this episode, host Nandagopal Rajan speaks to tech entrepreneur and author Byron Reese about his latest book "Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future — and Shape it". They also get into the philosophy of tech and how technologies can help in imagining the future. Who is Byron Reese? (00:00)Why this name for the book? (00:55)Cave art, the purpose of language and evolution (02:22)The most important invention of humankind (05:43)Why is Byron optimistic about the future? (08:56)Should we be scared of AI? (11:21)Learning from Beehives (15:08)