Humans Vs. the Robot-Apocalypse

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 14, 2015

With the advancements of technology reaching heights like that of driver-less cars, some people have posited that human existence may eventually become futile as we're outdated by our computer counterparts. Geoff Colvin, Fortune’s senior editor at large, explores the things people can do better than computers. In Humans are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will, he argues that the abilities that will prove most essential to our success are empathy, creativity, social sensitivity, storytelling, humor, building relationships, and expressing ourselves with greater power than logic can achieve.

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