Geoff Colvin

Humans Are Underrated (eBook, ePUB)

What High Achievers Know that Brilliant Machines Never Will

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What hope will there be for us when computers can drive cars better than humans, do intricate legal work, identify faces, scurry helpfully around offices and factories, even perform some surgeries, all faster, more reliably, and less expensively than people? The unavoidable question - will millions of people lose out, unable to best the machine? - is increasingly dominating business, education, economics, and policy. The bestselling author of Talent Is Overrated explains how the abilities that will prove most essential to our success are no longer the technical, classroom-taught left-brain skills that economic advances have demanded from workers in the past. Instead, our greatest advantage lies in our most essentially human abilities - empathy, creativity, social sensitivity, storytelling, humour, building relationships, and expressing ourselves with greater power than a machine mind could ever achieve. As technology advances, we shouldn't focus on beating computers at what they do - we'll lose that contest. Instead, we must develop our most essential human abilities and teach our children to value not just technology but also the richness of interpersonal experience. Colvin proves that to a far greater degree than most of us ever imagined, we already have what it takes to be great.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781857889826
• Artikelnr.: 47762150

Autorenporträt

Geoff Colvin

Rezensionen

In Humans are Underrated, Geoff Colvin makes the case that there is no point trying to beat machines at their own game. What makes people special is their inbuilt propensity for social interaction. We work well in groups - communicating, collaborating and, yes, empathising. Our best hope lies in what makes us most different from the logic-processors...in the softer side of human nature. Financial Times