Technology that transforms: what an invention from 1450 can teach us about AI

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 (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/gutenberg-parenthesis-9781501394829/) . Jeff spoke to us at the World Economic Forum's AI Governance Summit.
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AI Governance Summit 2023: State of Gen AI: Views from the Frontier (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/ai-governance-summit-2023-state-of-gen-ai-views-from-the-frontier/)


AI Governance Summit 2023: Gen AI: New Age of Governance (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/ai-governance-summit-2023-gen-ai-new-age-of-governance/)


AI Governance Summit: Transformation on the Horizon (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/ai-governance-summit-transformation-on-the-horizon/)


AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-5-amnc/)


Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-technologies-2023/)
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