'Bold inspired and hopeful' Arianna Huffington founder and CEO of Thrive Global'Lucid and
captivating' Max Tegmark professor of physics at MIT and author of Life 3.0A captivating
memoir that chronicles one woman's mission to humanise technology and what she learns about
humanity along the way.Now more than ever we find ourselves unable to express our true
feelings through technology. Whether it's a misunderstood text an oversimplified emoji or a
Skype call that leaves us feeling lonely when most of our communication is carried out through
tech the result is a virtual world that's lacking our humanity - a society lacking in
empathy.Rana el Kaliouby discovered this when she left Cairo a newly-married Muslim woman to
take up her place at Cambridge University to study computer science. Many thousands of miles
from home she began to develop systems to help her better connect with her family. She started
to pioneer the new field of Emotional Intelligence (EI). She now runs her company Affectiva
(the industry-leader in this emerging field) that builds EI into our technology and develops
systems that understand humans the way we understand one another. This is the fascinating story
of her mission to humanise technology and what she learns about humanity along the way.
