Through technology, you can find love, find your way home, learn languages, earn money, and talk to people across the planet. Devices might one day take your job, diagnose your diseases, tend to your dying moments, and compose a fugue in your memory. “Machinations” explores the human side of the so-called artificial intelligence revolution. It attempts to understand how a growing reliance on technology might affect our relationships with one another and what opportunities and costs lie ahead for future societies.