nick because he gives me new things to think about. so i find myself reliably disagreeing with him. >> andrew mcafee hook is "the second machine age." and nicholas carrbook is "the glass cage." >> since i am the appointed doom and gloom guy, i really feel like i should be up at the pulpit. this is the optimistic take. in the future you won't have a job, but you will have a really cool umbrella. [laughter] and i would like to take a slightly different view and look at a bit of a different question as we look ahead or look at what is going on now and we think about how computers are changing . and when we rely on machines to perform our jobs, do the talents fluor-ish or do they weather? and that is a very old question that people have been asking for least 2000 years, back to the ancient greeks. it's a question that kind of encapsulates the fundamental ambivalence about labor saving technology. you know, you will save us or it will destroy us. and that is captured in the title of today's session and i was happy to see the word a.m. been there. and i think that the question is is a it more today than it ever has been? whether we are going to florence in

he has written a book called "enchanted objects" and next to me is our pessimist nick carr and andy mcafeeother optimists. andy and david are colleagues at m.i.t.. david and the metal, his whole work is basically been focused on how we make the physical environment interface with the digital environment. it's sort of human machine interface so when david's mind he looks at his house on the whole thing is an untapped app store. he thinks why isn't my umbrella glowing if it's going to rain later today so i know to take it with me? why are my pills somehow notifying me when it's time to take them? david is an instructor at the m.i.t. media lab lab. his the ceo at ditto labs which is an image recognition software company that scanned social media photos for potential brands and products. >> it's truly evil. >> say that again. >> a chilly though. svinicki was previously the ceo of vitality. you find it a express scrips in cvs and walgreens. he founded a company called ambient devices which pioneered collapsible technology where you're embedding the internet into everyday things like mirrors and