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“Is humanity smart enough to survive itself?”  That is the question posed in March’s selected TED Talk for Winfield Public Library’s TED Talk Lunch Series.  The event will be held on Thursday, March 14 at noon in the WPL Community Room.  Community members are encouraged to bring a sack lunch to the program, which is free and open to the public.  Coffee and dessert will be provided.

In the talk selected for this month’s discussion, author Jeanette Winterson fixes her quick wit and sharp insight on the future of intelligence.  Her vision of a future where human and machine intelligence meld - forming what she calls “alternative intelligence” - prompts a philosophical look at our species and asks the question “are we smart enough to survive how smart we are?”