The Endless Newbie

The Endless Newbie
mediaX at Stanford University - Mackenzie Room, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center
New mindsets and sense making strategies may be required. Given the crazy pace of change that we all love and hate, we, in this room, must be prepared to not only take on the emerging hard sociotechnical challenges, but also to deeply question our institutional architectures, our public policies, and forms of learning. All of these are entangled. Indeed, new AI - deep learning systems, for example - raise fundamental ethical issues while they also influence and enable new behaviors and social practices. This means that as technologists, we are now being thrown into the midst of some fundamental - if not ontological - questions. This talk will explore our rapidly changing, broadly connected and radically contingent world and the lenses needed to frame, or reframe, the challenges that technological advances have pushed forward. Making sense of all this on a daily base ain't easy but each of us, in our own way, needs to step up to this challenge. A crisis of imagination is upon us. And we must find ways to overcome the tyranny of the present.