What Technology Has Always Needed

We tend to talk about AI as a technical problem. How powerful is it? How fast is it moving? What can it do?

But what if that’s the wrong frame entirely?

In the final part of Tara Mandrekar’s conversation with John Seely Brown, the two find their way to a question that’s harder to answer but more important to sit with:

What does it look like to keep the human at the center as technology reshapes everything around us?

JSB has been asking that question for decades, and Tara brings the perspective of a generation that has grown up feeling the consequences of what happens when we don’t.

The conversation touches on trust, on institutions, on what nature might have to teach us about learning in a complex world. It’s a fitting close to this interview series and raises harder questions about what AI and human flourishing actually require of us.

Watch Part 3 and tell us how it connects with you. We’d love to continue the conversation in the H-Corps LinkedIn group.