What's the best way to adapt to a faster future?

When it comes to technology, how fast is too fast? With so much information to digest already, how will we adapt to an even faster pace in the future? Tech titans and communications companies are developing innovations that speed up our ability to download, load a webpage, and feed our information appetite.


As part of Totally Wired: Our Lives on Tech during Festival 2 at Aspen Ideas 2020, scientists and innovators will discuss how the quickening pace of technology will affect our minds. Do we have the brain space for the advances 5G and quantum computing will bring? Register today.


At Aspen Ideas and Health 2020, more than two dozen program tracks will guide discussions from our speakers. Find out what everyone will be talking about!

 

Artificial intelligence is working its way deeper into our lives. Intelligent systems are reading and responding to human emotions, playing a critical role in medicine, and gathering vast amounts of data, often without us knowing. How can big tech companies and users of AI steer it to be more human-centered? Read more.

 

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“We as a community need to get together and decide what are the rules for ethically developing and deploying [AI] technology.” — Rana el Kaliouby, CEO of Affectiva, an emotion-measurement technology spinoff from MIT Media Lab

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