Finding the Narrative: Shifting East

This first chapter sets out the question that lies at the heart of the book: what is it to be human in the twenty-first century, at the dawn of new technologies—AI, big data, the Internet of Things? I argue that Eastern rather than Western narratives are most helpful for answering this question. Every technology is ambivalent. Most research findings are not the result of a rational process, but rather emerge from science’s intuitive, irrational ‘dark side’.