Instead of a utopian future in which technological advancement casts a dazzling, emancipatory light on the world, we seem to be entering a new dark age characterised by ever more bizarre and unforeseen events. The Enlightenment ideal of distributing more information ever more widely has not led us to greater understanding and growing peace, but instead seems to be fostering social divisions, distrust, conspiracy theories and post-factual politics. How have we come to this point – and has utopia gone forever?
Carolyn Rodz (Hello Alice) on building compassionate machines
Kodi Foster & Sashka Rothchild on tech for good
Andrew Garrihy (Huawei) on AI: unleashing a new renaissance
Heike Riel (IBM Research) on quantum computing
Emily Orton (Darktrace) on AI and the future of cyber defense
James Whittaker (Microsoft) on our future with our robot overlords
Pamela Pavliscak (Change Sciences) on emotionally intelligent machines
Marc Teerlink (SAP Leonardo) on AI: myths, facts and disruption
Jason Silva on our transhuman future
Rich Pierson (Headspace) & Ciara Byrne (FastCompany)
Danielle Wood (MIT) on space tech enabling sustainable development
John Collison (Stripe) on the evolution of a new online economy
Ryan Leslie (Superphone) on success at the speed of connectivity
Nelly Ben Hayoun (United Nations) on designing the impossible
Andrew Keen (Author) on how to fix the future
Katrina Dodd (Contagious Communications) on retail's reinvention
Ron Faris (Nike) on the future of retail & digital community
Jonna Fassbender (Stylescript) on fashion data
Richard Kelly (Fung Group) on a new school of consumerism
Henry Davis (Glossier) on how tech can create a new paradigm for brands
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