‘Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness should be reflected in our computing systems’

Is this our Golden Age? One where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace (excerpt from a poem by Richard Brautigan) More than a decade ago, I began to engage in a series of wonderful philosophical discussions with Julio Frenk (then the president of the University of Miami, now the chancellor of UCLA). From our talks an idea emerged, a fusion of computing, technology...