“Computers are useless,” Picasso is said to have said. “They can only give you answers.” But what if exponential technologies — virtual reality and artificial intelligence, for example — could also help us to ask better questions?

In our age of accelerating change, this is not an idle question. As Wired founder Kevin Kelly has said, “This is not a race against the machines. If we race against them, we lose. This is a race with the machines.”

But we cannot navigate that race unless we reframe our relationship to exponential technologies. Picasso was wrong (or didn’t live long enough to see the possibilities of the computer): VR and AI are not limited to providing only answers; they can also enable us ask better questions — if we choose to “race with them.”

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