Professor Rosalind W. Picard (right), founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group and co-director of the Things That Think Consortium, responds to a statement by Professor Susan S. Silbey (left), a Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Veritas forum this past Friday in Kresge. The forum was designed around the question “Will technology save the world?” and also featured Professor George Barbastathis and Professor José Gómez-Márquez.