The Whole Truth with David Eisenhower's video: 21st Century Technology: More Harm or More Good

Season 2, Episode 6 In areas from alternative energy, to genetics, to nanotechnology, to artificial intelligence and robotics, among others, the pace of change is accelerating and the different streams of change seem to be moving towards a confluence, which a number of leading futurists have called, “the singularity”. Smart phones and the internet now link billions of brains and the growth curve shows billions more added to this connected human intelligence over the coming relatively few years. At the same time the pace of artificial intelligence quickens enormously. Together these trends accelerate the process of acceleration. But what does it all mean? How will our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren live, work, play? What will our technological future look like… man-made utopia, or the dystopias imagined by science fiction? Guests: Gregory Stock, Research professor of genetics and genomic studies and co-director of the Harris Center for Precision Wellness, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. Dr. Stewart Prager, Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Edmund Lee, Managing Editor, Recode