Amy Webb is an American futurist, author and founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute. She is the author of several best-selling books such as 'The Signals Are Talking', 'The Big Nine' and her new book 'The Genesis Machine'. 

She is an adjunct assistant professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, a nonresident senior fellow at Atlantic Council, and was a 2014–15 Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

We discuss:

1. What the future of technology looks like
2. How Synthetic biology will revolutionize life as we know it
3. Distinguishing real trends from the merely trendy
4. How to think like a futurist