Video: Why innovation should be better, not bigger

Joichi Ito

I don’t believe immortality is a good thing…

Joichi Ito, Director of Media Lab at MIT and a member of the Global Agenda Council on Informed Societies, explains why new technologies must prioritize their own resilience if they are to be a force for good. With Rana Foroohar, assistant managing editor at Time Magazine.

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Image: A visitor waves in front of the sensor that triggers the joints of a dummy that is part of “PWM1”, an art creation by Taiwan artist Huang Zan-lun REUTERS/Pichi Chuang.
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