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/