
Amy Webb 🤷🏻♀️
@amywebb
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CEO of FTSG. Quantitative Futurist. Prof @NYUStern. 4x bestselling author. Competitive cyclist.
Somewhere between 2025 - 2125
Joined October 2007
🎙️ This week, FTSG's @amywebb joined host @meghamama on @Marketplace to unpack a growing shift in how ideas circulate online. Amy discusses what private forums mean for democracy, discourse, and the future of digital communication. Listen below👇 https://t.co/rdZUTlYdes
marketplace.org
Amy Webb, founder and CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group, explains why more people have retreated into their own private, digital spaces instead of having open conversations on social media.
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I posted this 10 years ago on Twitter and thought a reminder was warranted.
Ben Franklin lost a son to smallpox. His sobering advice to parents on vaccinations: http://t.co/dITuU49vCB
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Thank you for hosting me @OCInnovation! I loved seeing all the incredible AI and emerging tech being created in Canada!!🇨🇦 🤖
Wow! What an amazing session with @amywebb! Amy delivered powerful insights on Emerging Tech Trends! Her expertise in strategic foresight and innovation is truly unmatched. ✨
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At long last @amazon’s Kuiper finally launched. It’s the long-planned low Earth orbit satellite network that will compete against Starlink to disrupt our current internet infrastructure. https://t.co/1o6UguaAuY
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Amazon has launched the first installment of its Project Kuiper satellite internet service. It’s aiming to take on the dominance of SpaceX’s Starlink.
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Big book sale over at @amazon today and my books are deeply discounted. If you're interested in the future of #AI: https://t.co/HnNgaD7aPG Future of #Biotechnology and #synbio: https://t.co/pO9IjbmBBX How to get started with strategic foresight:
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Amy Webb is a noted futurist who combines curiosity, skepticism, colorful storytelling, and deeply reported, real-world analysis in this essential book for understanding the future. reveals a...
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...but I can imagine this in the future being used to create real-life personas. To wit: How would @pmarca or @peterthiel actually react to your pitch deck? Run a simulation and predict the probability of either one investing. Here's the paper:
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This benchmark uses literary character monologues and expert analyses as ground truth to measure how well an agent's generated "inner thoughts" match its motivations and reasoning patterns. Which is fun if you want to gauge Ironman's thoughts on your pitch deck...
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Would Tony Stark fund your startup? There's a new AI benchmark that might answer the question. The Turing Test (and others) judge an AI system's conversational ability, but ROLETHINK assesses whether the agent's "internal reasoning" aligns with the character it portrays.
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This was (and still is) my core argument: AI development is not just a tech issue—it’s a geopolitical and economic one. Tariffs are not the whole story, though it’s the current mode we’re in. The U.S. and China are engaged in a deepening rivalry in which AI becomes a tool of
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…The United States, meanwhile, continues to let a handful of powerful companies set the tone for innovation, without a coherent national strategy. This is a form of economic warfare, where dominance in AI means dominance in trade, finance, and global politics.”
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I wrote his passage in my book The Big Nine back in 2018. It was a warming about a new form of economic warfare. “The AI arms race isn’t just about who will build the most advanced systems—it’s about who will control the future of data, governance, and economics. China is
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If you weren't able to join us at SXSW this year, the video of my presentation is now available to stream. This year I focused on what everyone's missing in #AI, as well as why this is the #robotics era (I showed what was announced by #NVIDIA this week), #biocomputing, and
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If you're fixated only on AI, you're missing the bigger picture. 2 more technologies are converging with #AI to form something called "Living Intelligence." Sorry folks, but we aren't preparing correctly for what's ahead. Read my latest in @HarvardBiz
https://t.co/sI3msYJG3T
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AI is merely one facet of a sweeping technological change underway, and companies that fail to recognize the importance of other converging technologies risk being left behind. Two other technologies...
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Traditional strategic planning falls short in today's world. Embrace a futurist mindset to stay ahead: anticipate disruptions, create scenarios, be agile, and collaborate. Learn more from #Thinkers50 Ranked @amywebb via her @HarvardBiz piece: https://t.co/E9AB2bqJW9
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📚 The @SFIPress’s latest project, “Foundational Papers in Complexity Science,” republishes 88 influential papers, providing contemporary insights into the field’s origins and evolution over the past century. From entropy to computation, these papers explore the fundamental
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Our CEO Amy Webb launched our Germany scenarios yesterday at the #EUROPE2024 conference in Berlin! How will the country look like in 2035? Leader or laggard in innovation? Germany is at a crossroads. Read it here: https://t.co/kwKVWmuLdp
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Uncover the future of #AI. Check out what @amywebb, #PeterDeng, @sandy_carter, and more had to say at #SXSW 2024 in the Volume IV Highlights.
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