The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community over the twenty years from 1994 to 2014. In the next ten years, change will happen even faster.

As Hillary Clinton’s Senior Advisor for Innovation, our guest travelled nearly a million miles to forty-one countries, the equivalent of two round-trips to the moon. From refugee camps in the Congo and Syrian war zones, to visiting the world’s most powerful people in business and government, his travels amounted to a four-year masterclass in the changing nature of innovation.

In his book The Industries of the Future, he distils his observations on the forces that are changing the world. He highlights the best opportunities for progress and explains how countries thrive or sputter. He examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future over the next ten years, including robotics, artificial intelligence, the commercialisation of genomics, cybercrime and the impact of digital technology.

Blending storytelling and economic analysis, he answers questions on how we will need to adapt and gives us a vivid and informed perspective on how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live, now and tomorrow.

We welcome, technology policy expert, startup advisor, former US president Obama administration adviser, senior adviser for innovation to secretary Clinton, former Baltimore school teacher, and New York Times bestselling Author of “The Industries of the Future” Alec Ross.

We talk:

How change feels so far
Robotics
The five superpowers of robotics
Robotic carers in Japan
Autonomous vehicles
Regulating algorithms
The societal impact of autonomous vehicles
The need for a new social contract
The industry of genetic code
The genetic repair of cancer
Designer babies
We talk:
How change feels so far
Robotics
The five superpowers of robotics
Robotic carers in Japan
Autonomous vehicles
Regulating algorithms
The societal impact of autonomous vehicles
The need for a new social contract
The industry of genetic code
The genetic repair of cancer
Designer babies
Digital Currencies
Blockchain
Bitcoin
Interdisciplinary learners
Expertise in technologies and humanities
Education for tomorrow
Election Tampering
Cybercrime
Creating Technology Hubs
Diversity and Innovation
Open versus closed systems
More about Alec here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossalec/