The Industries of the Future

Within 20 years, we’ll see robot suits that allow paraplegics to walk and new drugs able to melt away most cancers. But we’ll also see definitions of money blur the line between corporation and citizen and computer code being used as a weapon to destroy physical infrastructures halfway around the world.

Those are some of the predictions leading innovation expert Alec Ross, author of The Industries of the Future, claims will drive the next two decades of change in our economies and societies. With stories and analysis in fields as sweeping as cybersecurity, genomics, and finance, Ross asks: can rising nations match Silicon Valley as the next innovation hotspots? What global trends are affecting the way we live and work? And how can we adapt?

Join New America for a conversation with Alec Ross, along with Open Technology Institute's Kevin Bankston and 1776's Rachel Haot, on both the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the future, and how we can navigate them.

Copies of Alec Ross's The Industries of the Future will be available for purchase. Join the conversation online at #IndustriesoftheFuture and by following @NewAmericaNYC.

Introduction:

Micah Sifry
Co-founder and Executive Director, Civic Hall
@Mlsif

Participants:

Alec Ross
Former Senior Advisor of Innovation, U.S. Department of State
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
Author, The Industries of the Future
@AlecJRoss

Rachel Haot
Managing Director, 1776
Former Chief Digital Officer, New York State and City of New York
@rachelhaot

Kevin Bankston
Director, Open Technology Institute, New America
@KevinBankston