What social media, AI, robotic technology, and the digital world are exploring is our relationships with each other and with ourselves.
There is no doubt that technology has made it easier to communicate. It is easy to exclude someone when we are confronted with online discourse. Why bother to understand strangers or acquaintances - when you can troll them, block them, or click "Unfriend" and never look back? While this may be somewhat satisfying, it can also possibly erase one of our most human traits: empathy.
So what does the future look like when something is so important to a peaceful, healthy and productive society? The cautious, yet hopeful, the answer lies in this champion for a fading spirit.
In The Future of Feeling, Caitlin Ugolic Phillips shares her personal stories as well as doctors, entrepreneurs, educators, journalists, and scientists about advancing innovation and technology to advance. This book is for anyone to understand how our brains work, how they are all being re-designed to work differently, and ultimately what it means for us as humans.
There is no doubt that technology has made it easier to communicate. It is easy to exclude someone when we are confronted with online discourse. Why bother to understand strangers or acquaintances - when you can troll them, block them, or click "Unfriend" and never look back? While this may be somewhat satisfying, it can also possibly erase one of our most human traits: empathy.
So what does the future look like when something is so important to a peaceful, healthy and productive society? The cautious, yet hopeful, the answer lies in this champion for a fading spirit.
In The Future of Feeling, Caitlin Ugolic Phillips shares her personal stories as well as doctors, entrepreneurs, educators, journalists, and scientists about advancing innovation and technology to advance. This book is for anyone to understand how our brains work, how they are all being re-designed to work differently, and ultimately what it means for us as humans.