The World Has Changed: Navigating Technological Change For A Better Future. - With Vivek Wadhwa, Academic & Author.
Advancing technologies have made it possible to solve the grand challenges of humanity including hunger, disease, energy, and education to create the amazing future of Star Trek. In this ideal world, we could have unlimited and inexpensive food, clean energy, education for all, and live in perfect health.
Yet the same technologies that make this possible can also be used to engineer deadly viruses and create pandemics far worse than Coronavirus, rob humans of their jobs and livelihoods, create massive inequity and social turmoil, and take away our privacy and freedoms. This is the dystopia of Mad Max. The pandemic has taught us all what exponential means and accelerated our move to the future.
Watch this webinar as leading researcher and teacher in technology development, Vivek Wadhwa, describes the critical crossroad our society is on & why the decisions we make will define our future.
Yet the same technologies that make this possible can also be used to engineer deadly viruses and create pandemics far worse than Coronavirus, rob humans of their jobs and livelihoods, create massive inequity and social turmoil, and take away our privacy and freedoms. This is the dystopia of Mad Max. The pandemic has taught us all what exponential means and accelerated our move to the future.
Watch this webinar as leading researcher and teacher in technology development, Vivek Wadhwa, describes the critical crossroad our society is on & why the decisions we make will define our future.
About Speaker - Vivek Wadhwa
Vivek Wadhwa is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program and a Distinguished Fellow and professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. He is the author of four best-selling books: Your Happiness Was Hacked; The Driver in the Driverless Car; Innovating Women; and The Immigrant Exodus.
He has been a globally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and held appointments at Duke University, Stanford Law School, Emory University, and Singularity University.
Vivek is based in Silicon Valley and researches, speaks, and writes about advancing technologies that are transforming our world. These advances – in fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence, computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials – are making it possible for small teams to do what was once possible only for governments and large corporations to do: solve the grand challenges in education, water, food, shelter, health, and security.
He has been a globally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and held appointments at Duke University, Stanford Law School, Emory University, and Singularity University.
Vivek is based in Silicon Valley and researches, speaks, and writes about advancing technologies that are transforming our world. These advances – in fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence, computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials – are making it possible for small teams to do what was once possible only for governments and large corporations to do: solve the grand challenges in education, water, food, shelter, health, and security.
