Technology And The Really Human

A conversation in Brussels this morning with a True Believer in Progress

From ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

Hello from Brussels. I spoke this morning on a panel about technology, culture, and humanity. We had a lively exchange. My pro-tech interlocutor and I did not see eye to eye, unsurprisingly. He said at one point, with no sense of irony, “Just think how much worse off we would be if Adam and Eve had not tasted the apple!” I th…