“We are in a world that is ruled by algorithms,” said O’Reilly at a recent Reinvent event marking the publication of his new book WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us.
As the number of contingent and gig workers in the United States continues to rise, our labor laws and policies need to shift to fit our new reality. We've been here before—in 1950, the “Treaty of Detroit” cracked the model for how both workers and companies could thrive in the...
Increasingly unaffordable, they’re forcing out families and workers. Author Richard Florida says a new political coalition could fix that.
Ken Goldberg is not one for robot panic. At What's Now: San Francisco, the William S. Floyd Distinguished Chair of Engineering at UC Berkeley delivered a fascinating and thoroughly convincing presentation outlining why we should be excited about, and not afraid of, our robot-filled future.
Tourism, as Destination Stewardship CEO Jonathan Tourtellot likes to say, is the fire that either cooks your food or burns your house down. More people are traveling than ever before in human history—tourism comprised $7 trillion of global GDP in 2016, more than 10% of the world's economy.
The kickoff event for our new Future of Work series featured eight remarkable thought leaders in the space, and an audience of people both passionate and knowledgeable about this topic.
When it comes to innovation in the world of biotech, the possibilities are not endless, exactly, but they are pretty mind-blowing. At our recent What's Now: San Francisco event, synthetic biologist Andrew Hessel described a future in which mice glow in the dark, the phenomenon of extinction is—well, extinct—and humans...
At What's Now: San Francisco, Hyperledger Project Executive Director Brian Behlendorf kicked off the night by apologizing for the role he played in developing cookies and web-tracking in the early days of the web. Behlendorf, who has done stints in the Obama White House, the World Economic Forum, and growth-equity...
Paul Hawken and the team at Project Drawdown have developed the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming, a feat which Hawken said was easy, because "no one had ever proposed a plan before."
The opportunities have never been greater, offering dramatic new ways to improve our everyday lives, our work, and our world.