'Team Human' Stresses That The Future Lies In Connection And Cooperation

Your purchase helps support NPR programming. It was just 10 years ago that I attended a lecture about Big Data and had my mind blown. Using an understanding of social networks, along with the emerging tools of artificial intelligence and machine learning, I thought we were at the dawn of new age -- allowing us to finally manage the complexity of human society for the well-being of all. It hasn't turned out that way. With fake news, Russian election hacking, and the general meanness of our online world, many know the utopian sheen is off our digital technologies.