Thanks, tim. So i am very happy to be a today to introduce amy webb. Her title as i understand it is quantitative future futurist se totally has the most interesting time of anybody in this room. She founded the future today institute and she teaches at Nyu Stern School of business where she studies how technology and science will disrupt business and ignite geopolitical change. Where she guides universities, industry and governments on how to navigate thates change. She explores a range of intriguing ideas like what she calls quote, fair and equal codebase, as safeguards against the dangers of online buyers. Amy is also an accomplished author. Her most recent book, the signals are talking, teaches us how to think like a futurist and how to distinguish the real trends from the merely United States. It was selected as one of Fast Companies best books. A brave soul, and he once chronicled her adventures in online dating. As only someone with a degree in game three she crated an algorithm
Thank you. Im happy to be here today to introduce amy webb. Her title is quantitative futurist, so she has the most interesting title of anybody in this room. She founded the future today institute. She studies technology and science. She guides universities, intotry, and government navigating change. She explores a range of intriguing ideas such as fair and equal codebase against the dangers of bias. Her most recent book teaches us how to think like a futurist and distinguish the real trend from the merely trendy. Her book was selected as one of fast companys best books. She has chronicled her adventures in online dating. Experiencewith only in game very might do, she for love. You can see an in her ted talk. Welcome rob and the woman who is named by forbes as one of the women changing the world through technology. Amy webb. [applause] good morning. So, i want to start by i have heard both net a lot this morning. As though this is a new phenomenon. I would like to take you back to 201
Changes that have happened to us and our policy the last year and also kind of scope out what we think this year is going to look like and thats kind of the point. State of the net in january. My name is tim lorden and im part of organization sponsored by jerry who founded this organization, youll hear from at lunch and founded the concept much the state of the net and i want to thank jerry. [applause] jerry is a giant in the space and were happy to have him back. Hell be introducing the congressman later in the program and youll hear from him. Normally it snows before state of the net and were expecting snow tomorrow and ill thrilled about that and the people that can organize the state of the union can deal with that, but today, we have good weather and were thrilled to have a great lineup of speakers. Just really quickly, i want to thank our sponsors. You can see some of them on the screens around you. They include comcast nbc universal, we also have facebook, we have verizon and th
School of business where she studies how technology and science will ignite geopolitical change and the universities industries and governments on how to navigate the change. She scores a range of intriguing ideas like what she calls fair and equal code base against the dangers of online buyers. Also an accomplished author or most recent book the signals are talking teaches us how to think like a futurist and distinguish the real trends from the merely trendy. It was selected as one of the best books. A brave soul she once chronicled her adventures in Online Dating on data a love story as only someone with a degree in this series may do she created an algorithm for love which led her to the love of her life. For those of you that are single you can check out the talk which got 6 million views. Amy will be joined by rob tech policy journalist for yahoo news. Please welcome rob and the woman who was named as one of the women changing the world through technology. [applause] good morning.
Ideas like what she calls fair and equal code base against the dangers of online buyers. Also an accomplished author or most recent book the signals are talking teaches us how to think like a futurist and distinguish the real trends from the merely trendy. It was selected as one of the best books. A brave soul she once chronicled her adventures in Online Dating on data a love story as only someone with a degree in this series may do she created an algorithm for love which led her to the love of her life. For those of you that are single you can check out the talk which got 6 million views. Amy will be joined by rob tech policy journalist for yahoo news. Please welcome rob and the woman who was named as one of the women changing the world through technology. [applause] good morning. So, i want to start by i have heard both net a lot this morning. As though this is a new phenomenon. I would like to take you back to 2011 when we saw the first emergence throughout the current modern social