“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
Albert Einstein
The velocity of technological developments during Einstein’s lifetime was of grave concern to him. The promise of atomic energy had turned into a nightmare of annihilation. The speed at which technology changes and advances today is staggering and should cause us pause as well. Einstein cautioned us to align and inform tech innovations with our values, our humanity, and our wisdom: “The human spirit must prevail over technology,” he said. For our final polymathic pizza in our fall series on the Permanence of Change, we will be joined by Engineering Professor Shrikanth Narayanan to consider where technological advances have outpaced our ethical sensibilities and how we might right the ship for our future. We need all hands (all majors) on deck for this conversation!