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The Ezra Klein Show
The guest highlighted its focus on shaping technology to serve human ends rather than becoming enslaved by it.
The second book he co-authored is the most recent with Simon Johnson, is called Power and Progress and it focuses on something absolutely fundamental which is can we shape technology to our own ends....
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The guest highlighted its focus on shaping technology to serve human ends rather than becoming enslaved by it.
The second book he co-authored is the most recent with Simon Johnson, is called Power and Progress and it focuses on something absolutely fundamental which is can we shape technology to our own ends. I'm more skeptical than they are but it's unbelievably important that we manage to find a way of controlling the technology that we are generating, the energy technology which we failed to do and now the computing technology that we are employing so that we are the masters of our technological development not the slaves.