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Cover Quote: May 2020

Computers are “smart” in that they were designed with an abundance of cognitive intelligence, or IQ. But they are totally lacking in EQ. Traditional computers are emotion blind: They don’t recognize or respond to emotion at all. Around twenty years ago, a handful of computer scientists—I was one of them—recognized that as computers became more deeply embedded in our lives, we would need them to have more than computational smarts; we’d need them to have people smarts. Without this, we run the risk that our dependence on our “smart” technology will siphon off the very intelligence and capabilities that distinguish human beings from our machines. If we continue on this path of emotion blind technology, we run the risk of losing our social skills in the real world. We will forget how to be compassionate and empathetic to one another.

- Rana el Kaliouby
Girl Decoded, 2020
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