Dusseldorf When the futurologist Amy Webb takes the stage at the annual South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, the room goes quiet. Scientists, entrepreneurs, journalists and tech enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting her tech trend reports, which she publishes once a year.
In the podcast with Handelsblatt editor-in-chief Sebastian Matthes, Webb talks about technological developments that will determine the year 2022. What happens when Artificial Intelligence becomes more and more powerful – and, for example, collects and processes analyzes of our state of health on a daily basis? What are the consequences of commercial space tourism and what opportunities does new satellite technology offer?
Webb also talks about the manipulation of weather through geoengineering and the opportunities and risks of synthetic biology. This can help to cure diseases without drugs, to breed meat without killing animals, and to cope with the climate catastrophe without restricting the economy of the states, she says.
Webb is also the founder of the Future Today Institute in New York and a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. In February she published her new book “The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology”. For the second time she is a guest at Handelsblatt Disrupt.
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More: The previous episode of Handelsblatt Disrupt can be found here.