Wendell Wallach


Emerging Technology - Hype vs. Reality: Wendell Wallach at TEDxUConn 2013

Published on Oct 20, 2013

Technological development is speeding up at an exponential pace. All human problems will soon be solved by new and emerging technologies -- or so say the techno-optimists. The hype-machine is working overtime to convince us to buy into every field of scientific research. Techno-pessimists argue that the social impact of advanced technologies is likely to be catastrophic. Who is right? Which technological possibilities are likely to be realized in the next 20-30 years? What are the greatest dangers new technologies pose?

Wendell Wallach, a scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, seeks to answer these questions.
 
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