Very interesting. Not at all what I expected. If anything this book illustrates two things about human interaction. One, the us-vs-them dichotomy that has been used to help and hinder human progress over the centuries and what can be called the “compassion model” for human behavior. It was rather touching to see that people opened up to a machine when the machine “confessed” to feeling inferior and/or out of date.

Which leads to more speculation. Us-vs-Them mentality has been used to great detriment, generally, to human progress. It is only when we remember compassion, that we seem to advance as a species. Perhaps this is a new way of understanding these two poles of human behavior and can suggest ways to increase our compassion, while lessening the effects of Us-vs-Them.