Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years. Judy Woodruff More Quotes by Judy Woodruff More Quotes From Judy Woodruff Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention. Judy Woodruff circles class years At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits. Judy Woodruff pilots interviews people If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car. Judy Woodruff technology space home In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation. Judy Woodruff encounters phones lasts Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born. Judy Woodruff phones play mean All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere. Judy Woodruff phones two people It's very typical that when two people are having lunch, they put a phone on the table between them. Judy Woodruff lunch phones two People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things. Judy Woodruff trying-different-things jobs people Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion. Judy Woodruff journey views children From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off. Judy Woodruff artificial-intelligence stage perspective The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains. Judy Woodruff computer body brain A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Judy Woodruff nuclear dangerous weapons Of course, man is also a weak creature with many bad qualities. And it depends on which of his qualities will in a certain social situation and in a certain climate prevail, which qualities will awaken. The totalitarian system was masterful in how it managed to mobilize all the bad qualities. Judy Woodruff climate quality men This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job. Judy Woodruff mind dark jobs I think, as a historian, what strikes one the most about this [Donald'd Trump] program is just simply its nationalism, with his commitment to the redevelopment of American manufacturing and industrial jobs, providing jobs for the constituency that was so important in electing him. Judy Woodruff jobs commitment thinking The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language. Judy Woodruff contentious english-language language So many times, white - non-college-education - educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G's, God being the woman's right to choose. Judy Woodruff gay gun college I don't think anyone is closer to the voters in Washington than members of the House of Representatives. Judy Woodruff voters house thinking I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays. Judy Woodruff play writing thinking Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And so, speaking out and having that strong moral fiber, people just knew that he told the truth to people who had only heard lies. And so I think his - that's his legacy. Judy Woodruff strong lying thinking
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