Technology can help. But it must be the right type of technology, enabling us to shift from three dimensions into four and five, rather than driving us into two dimensions or one, a flat screen or a party line. Artificial intelligence will really be such when it answers our frivolous queries by pointing out that we are burning the planet and should stop. An actual AI would remind us that (by Google’s own count) we put about two thousand tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day with our Web searches alone—and that every query to the programs now termed “artificial intelligence”
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