Technology that transforms: what an invention from 1450 can teach us about AI
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If you’re a ‘digital native’ - someone who can’t remember a world before the internet - you might feel you have a good idea of the role technology will play in your life and perhaps in that of future generations. But journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, author of a history of another transformative technology from more than five centuries ago - the printing press - says we can have no way yet of knowing where the internet, and AI, will take us. The book is called The Gutenberg Parenthesis. Jeff spoke to us at the World Economic Forum's AI Governance Summit. AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA AI Governance Summit: https://www.weforum.org/events/ai-governance-summit-2023/ Podcast links: AI Governance Summit 2023: State of Gen AI: Views from the Frontier AI Governance Summit 2023: Gen AI: New Age of Governance AI Governance Summit: Transformation on the Horizon AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives Check out all our podcasts on: wef.ch/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Join the World Economic Forum Book Club
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