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Founder of Techonomy, David Kirkpatrick is a journalist, commentator about technology, and author of the bestselling book “The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World,” published in 32 countries. He spent 25 years at Fortune, and founded and hosted its Brainstorm and Brainstorm Tech conferences. In addition to writing for Techonomy, he contributes to Forbes and Vanity Fair. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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The Fusion News is Better Than You Think
The news about fusion nuclear power is even better than many of the reports this week suggested. Yes a government lab made a major and historic breakthrough. But the best is yet to come–from startups.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 16, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/chatgpt-kirkpatrick-300x169.jpg)
ChatGPT Makes Your Head Spin, But At Least Explains Why
Few tech developments ever have had the sudden impact of the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence chat software, released last week. For many, using it had the quality of experiencing a transition into a new era of tech. That’s because this evolution of software developed in recent years by OpenAI, a company formed by Elon Musk […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 9, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/David-Kirkpatrick-Climate-Breakfast-TE22-300x169.jpg)
My Epiphanies at a Climate Innovation Breakfast
As the internet industry implodes, a session helped me realize that a newly-forming climate industry will replace it. Climate tech and climate-conscious companies will become the leading force in business and markets, a new force for wealth-creation.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 2, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/David-Kirkpatrick-UN-SDGs-300x169.jpg)
In Our Own Best Interests
Biden has signed some groundbreaking legislation lately, but mostly our leaders are failing us. Too many are taking actions that harm us and even them. What’s wrong with working for collective betterment?
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 4, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Entrepreneurship-Africa-TE-300x169.jpg)
Yes, the World Needs Saving
It’s a challenging time to be an optimist. There are blights on our time. If we cannot turn ostensible optimism into action to address the world’s wrongs, we are failing our fellow humans, and ourselves.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 28, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/vivienne-ming-techonomy-2015-300x169.jpg)
If Innovation Slows, The World Goes
Innovation Must Save the World. That is a key theme we think about constantly as we cap off Techonomy’s year of semi-post-pandemic re-immersion. Climate, innovation, development and equality all must be thought of in parallel.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 7, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/pakistan-floods-300x169.jpg)
The Business of Business is Climate
The climate is telling us something’s wrong. Business is starting to hear the message. U.S. Steel, Ericsson, and other companies are changing, and finding new ways to work with environmentalists.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 9, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/climate-sustainability-event-nyc-300x169.jpg)
Business May Be Our Only Hope For Climate
Our crises grow. Governments are slow to act. Business has an opportunity and a responsibility to take the reins, and even to save the world.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 28, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/jeffrey-sachs-interview-300x169.jpg)
Jeffrey Sachs is Upset
We don't take the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals seriously enough. Tech is indispensable for achieving them. Economist Jeffrey Sachs is unimpressed with business' commitment so far, especially the tech giants, he told Techonomy in this exclusive interview.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 20, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SAP-startups-2-300x169.jpg)
Startups Are Key to SAP’s Sustainable Enterprise Vision
SAP has a corporate goal to drive toward Zero Emissions, Zero Waste, and Zero Inequality. It's nurturing 75 sustainability-oriented startups through its SAP.iO Foundries accelerator, focusing on everything from food to fashion.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 15, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/jerome-powell-interest-rates-300x169.jpg)
Beyond the Crash–Finding Patterns in a World of Uncertainty
Things are grim. And one of the grimmest parts of this moment is how uncertain everyone seems to be about what comes next.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 17, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ITU-Kigali-Rwanda-2022-300x169.jpg)
2.9 Billion Reasons to Worry
More than one-third of the world’s population is still not connected to the internet. It’s a global scandal and a growing crisis. The International Telecommunication Union convened governments, NGOs, and businesses in Kigali, Rwanda for an effort to expand access.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 10, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/digital-green-earth-300x169.jpg)
UN Aims for Climate-Conscious Digital World
The new Action Plan from the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability aims to “embed sustainability in all aspects of digitalization." Those of us who believe in the power of digital transformation need to get involved.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 3, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Davos-2022-Wipro-Climate-300x169.jpg)
Inside the Climate Conversation at Davos
The climate crisis and climate action were, finally, prominent themes at this week’s World Economic Forum. We hosted two Techonomy Climate sessions with leaders from Microsoft, Salesforce, Wipro, Carbon Capture, Heliogen, and Normative. Here’s what we learned.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 27, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ITU-connectivity-300x169.jpg)
The UN Sets Historic Targets for Global Connectivity
It’s no longer enough to just say people “need to be connected to the internet.” We require clear targets, especially since 2.9 billion people remain offline. So now the ITU and the UN Sec-General’s office have put on paper what connection really means. It is a set of guideposts and a mandate for action.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 29, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/hope-for-spring-300x169.jpg)
Prayer for a Time of Plagues
Today’s plagues are more than 10, but as I head to a Passover Seder, I cannot help thinking of the parallels. Maintaining optimism is getting harder, but being in tech helps.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 15, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Bill-Gross-Techonomy-Climate-300x169.jpg)
What Happened At Techonomy Climate
Yes we’ll definitely do more climate conferences. The substance Tuesday was phenomenal. Attendees said they were enthralled and bolstered in their convictions. This is THE crisis. And Bill Gross has a lot to teach us.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 1, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Watershed-founders-300x169.jpeg)
Watershed Wants to Cut Your Company’s CO2
By collecting the world’s carbon data and putting it in one place so companies can accurately reduce their footprint, the startup aims to reduce or remove 500 million tons of CO2 every year – 1% of the world’s emissions.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 18, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-editing-lucidlink-300x169.jpg)
One Company’s Experience Shows the Future of Video Editing
A new kind of cloud-computing video-editing software called LucidLink has exploded during the pandemic, because it enables production teams to work from anywhere. WebMD says this is the future of their business.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 18, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Putin-WEF-2009-300x169.jpeg)
My Own Scary Encounter with Putin
My interaction with Putin up close didn’t help me foresee today’s ugly war. But it did show him to be manipulative, deceptive, and cold-blooded. Machismo is not a healthy starting point.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 11, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Russian-foreces-in-Ukraine-300x200.jpeg)
Putin’s Horrors Shift the World
Putin’s evil invasion of Ukraine is a pivot point, around which much is shifting. The world is spinning differently on its axis, and we don’t know what comes next.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 4, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/shutterstock_2104641758-300x200.jpg)
How Technology Makes War More Terrifying
Russia's Ukraine invasion is the first major physical war between developed countries in the connected age. As the tragedy continues to unfold, we're likely to see it manifest in the digital systems that surround us.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 25, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/shutterstock_1513482104-300x169.jpg)
Climate Crisis Tech: Priority Number One
We must take action on the climate emergency in many ways. But huge tech innovation is emerging from both large and small companies. We’ve got to apply it right away. It’s become a top priority for Techonomy.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 18, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2022-02-04-at-7.38.41-AM-300x169.jpg)
Is The Metaverse Really Our Near Future?
Facebook was designed to make real connections, under your real name, with other people. Now it invites us to leave the real world and escape into a construct of its own invention.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 4, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Techonomy-Stage-300x169.jpg)
New Year, New Website, New Conferences
Tech is now at the heart of everything, perhaps too much in many cases. This is why Techonomy exists, and this new website aims to help highlight what matters even more.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 28, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/shutterstock_2072961176-1-300x200.jpg)
How the Pandemic Changed Video Editing
A new software for the cloud-centric, remote-work era lets collaborators easily edit a video at the same time, wherever they are. A partnership between LucidLink, IBM, and Adobe made it possible.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 21, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2021-12-03-at-1.53.24-PM-300x181.png)
American Interdependence, Democracy, and Innovation
Will American democracy survive? It’s a sad question many of us are asking these days. It’s also the title of the opening session at our Health+Wealth of America conference on Thursday Dec. 16 in midtown Manhattan.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 3, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/shutterstock_1098814631-300x200.jpg)
Facebook, the Imperialist Media Company
Techonomy’s Kirkpatrick continues to be appalled by developments at the company he wrote a book about back when. New name? Lipstick on a pig. This is a renegade media company, period, with horrific impact on the world.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 29, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/shutterstock_697449409-270x300.png)
The Name Facebook Needs to Change: Zuckerberg
Facebook is reported to be considering a name change. But its image will not be remedied by anything other than fundamental reforms.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 22, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CNN-Facebook-Interview-300x188.png)
Facebook’s Tragic Obsession With Image
Facebook executives and its all-powerful CEO feel so self-righteous that they dismiss all criticism outright, including this week. It’s tragic, but it’s possible to explain.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 8, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/pexels-marta-branco-1194713-300x200.jpg)
The Future of Software: Less Code, More Impact, and More Programmers
Every year, Cognizant Softvision hosts a global Programmers’ Week (on the 256th day of the year). A discussion among leaders there predicted tremendous changes for software.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 30, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/shutterstock_1943833363-300x200.jpg)
Outlaw? Pariah? Renegade Empire? Digesting the WSJ Series About Facebook
How can one company make so many mistakes? An astonishing reportorial coup by the Wall Street Journal is rattling Zuckerberg's empire.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 17, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mika-baumeister-jXPQY1em3Ew-unsplash-300x195.jpg)
How Do We React to the Climate Tragedy?
This week’s UN climate report was grim. Can business, individuals, and the world take the radical steps needed to avert a catastrophic planetary future?
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 12, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2021-08-06-at-8.17.48-AM-300x177.png)
ITU: To Connect Everyone We Need Innovation
3.6 billion people still remain offline. A young entrepreneur describes her Ugandan innovation journey. We also hear about Mandela, new ministries, and virtues of 5G.
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 6, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_1732016947-300x200.jpg)
Summer 2021: Are We Going Up or Down?
We're creeping back, but are things getting better or worse? From climate emergencies to simple everyday tasks, confusion and overwhelm abound.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 30, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/jametlene-reskp-Q79XFGuTFfM-unsplash-300x200.jpg)
Facebook’s New Face: Dishonesty
A book and numerous other recent accounts point to a new chink in Facebook’s armor: overwhelming evidence it can’t be trusted. Could that help force reform?
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 15, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/zuckerberg-not-worthy-300x279.jpeg)
Why Zuckerberg Is Not Worthy
Here’s why the CEO and Facebook should not be a model for leaders determined to do right by all stakeholders. At Techonomy we’ve been thinking about that as we work to compile a list of “Worthy” tech companies.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 6, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DLD-conference-2021-300x225.jpeg)
Glimpses of a New Era: The In-Person DLD Conference
Determination to face genuine crises may be rising as the pandemic slowly wanes. At DLD I found a new spirit of both concern and tech-centric optimism.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 2, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/belinda-fewings-yOloXSoR8vo-unsplash-scaled-1-300x200.jpg)
This ‘Covidgilante’ Says Vaccines Work on ‘Scariants’
Cardiologist, genomics expert, and digital healthcare advocate Dr. Eric Topol is obsessed with Covid and a major force in the U.S. response. He explains his optimism at next week’s conference.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 16, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_1834560409-300x225.png)
Can Tech Globalization Succeed With the U.S. and China At Odds?
The geopolitics of technology continues to get more and more fraught. Could the world's top tech powers ever reverse course and begin to cooperate?
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 9, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_343048862-300x200.jpg)
What is Unity in a Digital Era?
How can we come together? That is the question of our era. It applies across domains, across cultures, across the world. Our planet and our society have proven themselves more fragile than we believed, and the past year has proven that things can get very very bad, very quickly. Meanwhile, 2020 also proved, decisively, that […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 12, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/marshal-plan-for-moms-interview-300x200.jpg)
“Moms Are Getting Crushed in This Pandemic”
Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, discussed why we need a Marshall Plan for Moms.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 5, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-2-3-300x86.png)
Kinsa’s Thermometer Network: Crowdsourcing for Public Health
Kinsa Health makes a connected thermometer, now used in 2.5 million American homes. That innovation is more profoundly important than it initially appears, because the insights the network leads to offer a deep predictive view into public health.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 21, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_1889190784-300x200.jpg)
Can Business Lead the U.S. Back Towards Facts?
The country is split. Many don't even believe Biden was elected. But business can't function properly without truth. Why are so many business leaders speaking out about the election and the events of the week?
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 8, 2021![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_1555544078-300x171.png)
The Year the World Finally Became Techonomic
Zooming from home, tech stock insanity, ceaseless digital transformation and even a new cyberwar–in 2020 tech finally landed decisively at the center of modern life. The world is forever altered.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 23, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2020-12-11-at-11.43.19-AM-300x194.png)
Celebrating the Flawed Facebook Lawsuit
Despite many questions about the huge U.S. antitrust assault on Facebook, it will at least accomplish one thing: make the company less likely to continue heedlessly doing so many irresponsible things.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 11, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HW-social-promo-21-300x158.png)
He Spoke With the Wuhan Whistleblower in January
A doctor working fulltime at a national level on the pandemic. An architect aiming to decarbonize the atmosphere. A young woman who shook up Israeli politics. They all have something in common.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 25, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_1688168710-300x200.jpg)
BMC’s CTO on 2020’s “Quest” for Corporate Transformation
Digital transformation accelerated this year in a way nobody could have predicted. What does it mean to be a “tech-driven” company in this era, and why should becoming an Autonomous Digital Enterprise be the goal?
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/UNI232328-1-300x200.jpg)
“Our Audacious Goal: Connect Every School by 2030”
Spearheaded by UNICEF and the ITU, the Giga initiative aims to connect every school worldwide to the internet by 2030, and extend connectivity to far more young people everywhere. Ericsson's Heather Johnson explains.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 12, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_378437224-300x162.jpg)
What Just Happened?
The world is shifting on its axis and we're trying to figure out what comes next. While we may be a divided country in many ways, dialogue can still help us come together.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 5, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image001-300x168.png)
“77% of Americans Fear a New Wave of Covid”
Three-quarters of Americans are just afraid to do things like go to the movies or ride the subway. But alongside the fear have arisen some surprising new attitudes, many of them setting in globally, during this uniquely-stressful and uncertain year.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 28, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_1473397412-300x200.jpg)
Why Only 34% of Americans Recycle
Americans don’t recycle because too often they can’t. And even communities where recycling is a deep commitment are paying a premium to do it, rather than dump it as garbage. The whole ecosystem needs to be revamped.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 22, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cffffef8-da9b-4064-998b-290d6e99b0eb-1-300x188.jpg)
“Progress towards sustainability is tragically slow”
AeroFarms operates the world’s largest vertical farming company. Founder David Rosenberg talks about the “circular economy” and how re-use and efficiency should drive the way we think about just about everything we do.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 21, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_1780077893-300x200.jpg)
“It shouldn’t be up to consumers to figure out what products are safe for…the environment”
What’s the role of business in addressing the degrading environment and pushing towards more sustainability in society? In the opinion of Jenny Ahlen of the Environmental Defense Fund, plenty. “We need proactive business leadership."
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 19, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HealthWealth-Day-One-Recap-Video-300x164.png)
Early Childhood Intervention and the Capacity for Joy: Day One Takeaways from the Health+Wealth of America
Day one of the Health+Wealth of America conference opened with Dr. Zeke Emanuel, a medical ethicist and longtime advocate for reform of American healthcare. He got right down to talking about the things that would really make a difference in America.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 14, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HealthWealth-Logo-Crop-300x117.png)
“Healing America in a Time of Divides”
Zainab Salbi, an Iraqi immigrant who has spent many years working both on issues of immigration and gender equality, will appear at the session whose name I’ve quoted in my headline. She’s writing a book about how to overcome America’s divides—not only of right and left, Republican and Democrat, but men and women, rich and poor, privileged and disenfranchised.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 1, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HWAmerica-Logo-No-Reflection-e1600354591213-300x125.png)
Building Health+Wealth in America
Now is the time to take an urgent and holistic look at where the country is headed. We think of both “health” and “wealth” in a broad sense–what will make the nation and its people healthier, and: what should we mean by “wealth” in an age cursed by deep inequality?
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 16, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/data-azure-300x206.jpg)
How Companies Deal with the Data Dilemma
Companies that can harness data best for insights will be the ones that win. But doing that is hardly simple. So Techonomy recently brought together a group of senior corporate leaders to discuss managing and finding insights from data.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 10, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Dr.Lee-CantTouchThis-300x150.jpg)
America’s Excruciating School Dilemma
Schools across the country are opening for the Fall, but COVID is transforming everything. Techonomy gathers three educators and childhood experts to help parents and all of us make sense of the moment.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 9, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cryptocurrency-blockchain-300x200.jpg)
Don’t You Wish You Understood Crypto?
The value of one bitcoin has more than doubled to $11,200 since its low in mid-March. That is just one of many signs the blockchain economy (aka “crypto”) continues to evolve and roil finance and tech.
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 27, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_599505011-300x200.jpg)
Where Next For US-China Tech?
The American and Chinese tech and internet industries have long been intertwined, but recent moves by the Trump administration aggressively seek to sully those ties. So what comes next?
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 20, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Bezos-CSPAN-congressional-hearings-300x175.png)
Historic hearing portends new era for Tech Titans
The government has awakened. No matter which mega-wealthy tech power broker you think did best at yesterday’s U.S. House Antitrust Subcommittee hearing, the central message to take away is that the era of disregard is over.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 31, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_1081878566-300x200.jpg)
Is FB a Media Company? It’s Not Mark’s Call.
Facebook says it's not a media company. But advertisers are saying it is, and it must take action. Will the company finally take the responsible steps its true customers now demand?
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 25, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2020-02-04-at-2.52.04-PM-300x187.png)
The Good News About Growth (and Climate)
Our climate crisis is real and urgent. But many people who care deeply about it don't understand what's happened with economic growth. Economist Andrew McAfee's analysis will likely surprise you.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 6, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Zuck1-2-scaled-1-300x200.jpg)
Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want to be Liked. That’s Scary.
Facebook has frightening power to determine what can and cannot be said in society and in politics. Yet its all-powerful unchallengeable leader is getting frustrated with his critics, and retreating further into self-righteous isolation.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 3, 2020![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Why is Digital Healthcare Going So Slowly?
Many experts believe that digital healthcare systems and tools can provide an alternative to traditional care, as well as help people stay healthier and get treatment when necessary. But global health systems aren’t moving fast enough to take advantage of the technology.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 3, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Davos-Smith-Lee-300x242.jpg)
Techonomy in Davos: Four Sessions & Many Epiphanies
Multidisciplinary dialog is why Techonomy exists, so no wonder we find Davos so stimulating and valuable. This year economic concerns were muted while climate ones were paramount. We curated four major sessions, working with Wipro. Watch them here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 22, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/NewBradSmith-300x245.png)
Microsoft President Brad Smith, on Rethinking a Tech Company’s Role
Microsoft's top lawyer recently co-authored a book, and shared insights with Techonomy on tech, how Cambridge Analytica changed Washington, and other topics.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 7, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_300828341-300x200.jpg)
Tech’s Challenge for the 20s: The Baby and the Bathwater
This decade we'll have to take stock of how far tech got off track in the last decade. Will we undermine all the good things tech can do in our efforts to stop its evils? Only a new partnership across society is likely to avoid that.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 5, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Gamer-scaled-1-300x174.jpg)
Could Gaming Change the World?
Online gaming is not only a much bigger and more important industry than most people recognize. It's also, say some experts, a pathway that will enable society to evolve and transform.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 13, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MG_7244-scaled-1-300x200.jpg)
Techonomy 2019 – Can We Find a Way Not to Worry?
Here are some of the key takeaways and things we learned from our recent treat in Half Moon Bay, Calif.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 26, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ritz_HalfMoonBay_00143_Galleries_1280x720-1-300x169.jpg)
Welcome to Techonomy 2019
Techonomy's founder and editor-in-chief outlines what to expect in the days ahead as diverse leaders from business, tech, government, politics and philanthropy discuss some of the biggest issues of our time.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 17, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Carbon_2jpg-scaled-1-300x185.jpg)
Carbon Neutral Isn’t Enough
Reducing emissions of global warming gasses is critical. We also need to build a world economy that’s carbon negative. And there are many ways to suck up CO2. An article produced in tandem with Techonomy 2019.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_144788194-300x200.jpg)
What Are the Real Issues We Must Urgently Address?
To get the world off an increasingly worrisome and self-reinforcing cycle of tech dysfunction, political paralysis, and failed action on climate, we all must get involved. Techonomy is committed, and we tackle all these issues at our conference next week.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2019-11-08-at-4.54.43-PM-300x185.png)
The Many Facets of Techonomy 2019
Techonomy 2019 conference is next week. We'll range from how to remedy tech's harms to new architectures to computing to startups finding new ways to create food. Today's tech landscape is so intertwined that we believe it helps to think about all those things together.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 8, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/JDuato-Head-Shot-UPD-300x200.jpg)
What Makes Johnson & Johnson Different
Joaquin Duato, vice chairman of the world's largest healthcare company, talks about tech, and global progress.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 7, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TE19-Postcard-assets_V1-crop-300x137.jpg)
What is a Good Conference Today?
These aren't times for ordinary conversation. We don't believe you can separate out moral, ethical, and global thinking when you discuss business strategy and the role of tech. Our conference Nov. 17-19 in California is where we live out our convictions and act on our concerns.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 1, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TE19-Postcard-assets_V1-crop-300x137.jpg)
Techonomy Announces Full November Program
Here is exactly who is speaking about what, and when, at our upcoming Nov. 17-19 Techonomy 2019 conference. We take our theme of "Reset and Restore" very seriously, even gravely, given the state of the world right now. It's not too late to join us.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 16, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20180508_Techonomy_MartinSorrell-3944-300x200.jpg)
Here’s Who Will Be at Techonomy’s Next Retreat
Including Sir Martin Sorrell, Marissa Mayer, Wikimedia's Katherine Maher, Tim O'Reilly, Jeff Weiner, John Chambers, Tristan Harris, Craig Newmark, Denmark's Casper Klynge, Chip Conley, social entrepreneurs Jasmine Crowe & Esther Dyson, journalists Casey Newton & Andrew Keen, GE's Linda Boff, Andy Kessler, Marta Tellado, Nishith Desai & Renee James. And plenty more who won't fit here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 6, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Greta1-300x200.jpg)
Get Used to Rethinking Everything
Techonomy's editor-in-chief outlines three transformations morphing in real-time: President Trump's standing, global attitudes towards climate change, and investor and public attitudes towards money-losing “tech” companies.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 27, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_1149286787-300x200.jpg)
Is the VC-Fueled Consumer Paradise Over?
Do the travails of WeWork, Uber, and Lyft foretell a fundamental shift in what investors are willing to finance? If so, the consumer app economy may be remade.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 15, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/John-Chambers-scaled-1-300x200.jpg)
The Return of John Chambers (Who Loves Insect Meat)
John Chambers, an industry great, has joined us two years running, and returns to Techonomy this fall. He's an insect meat investor, a proponent of tech in France and India, and he worries about long term U.S. tech competitiveness.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 12, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_1098814598-scaled-1-300x200.jpg)
Why Facebook’s Libra Could Be Way More Than a Currency
Facing regulatory heat, Facebook may need a hedge in case targeted ads become less profitable. Libra could plant the seeds for a whole new approach.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 19, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_1382566466-300x200.jpg)
The Wrong Way to Push Back on Chinese Tech
The escalating tech war between the U.S. and China will hurt more than Huawei. It could do major economic damage to the world.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 24, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Gruber-1-300x226.jpg)
Techonomy NYC: Down on Tech, but Upbeat About a Humanized Future
The big takeaway from this year's New York conference: Our approach to creating technology must change. It has to become more intentional, human-centered, and explicitly responsible.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 20, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SDG-3-scaled-1-300x197.jpg)
Why We’re Obsessed with the Sustainable Development Goals
Technology -- and collaboration -- can help us achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 17, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/NYC19-Speaker-Group1-crop-300x197.jpg)
Will Tech Unite or Divide? How Our NY Program Chose Us
When we prepped for our NY conference May 14-15, almost every speaker brought up something about being worried about tech. Nobody knows if we're headed towards enlightenment or dystopia. But it's become a main conference theme.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 6, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/NYC18-WomenWorkPanel-crop-300x165.jpg)
Here’s Why I’m Excited About Techonomy NYC
At Techonomy we have a point of view. At our New York conference, we plan to suffuse you in it. Tech has gone off the rails, and every company and leader has to be thoughtful about why, and what can be done.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 19, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Zuckerberg-Congress-300x200.jpg)
Zuckerberg’s Regulatory About-Face
Mark Zuckerberg took a major new step over the weekend, issuing a blunt call for government intervention to set rules for the internet – and Facebook. This is a sea change, and historic, even if far too late. Yet, Facebook’s CEO deserves credit for finally and clearly acknowledging that the respective roles of government and net platforms has to change.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 2, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Genpact-Conversation-300x143.png)
AI Leaders Say Business Is Ready
At a Techonomy panel discussion about AI in Davos, Nielsen CEO David Kenny, Salesforce Chief Scientist Richard Socher, and Genpact CEO Tiger Tyagarajan all said AI would dramatically transform business, and were cautiously optimistic about what it means for people.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 1, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AndrewNash500-300x200.jpg)
Why Banks Could Be Your Ally for Managing Identity
“You have zero privacy,” Scott McNealy, CEO of then-mighty Sun Microsystems famously said back in 1999, “Get over it.” His words have echoed through the subsequent two decades, too often seeming prescient. Now a fatalism has set in among consumers about what companies know about us and how much data is escaping our control.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 10, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MG_2126-1-300x178.jpg)
Zuckerberg’s Privacy Contradictions
The Facebook CEO's 3200 word paean to privacy is fraught with implications, not all of them necessarily intended. For all the words, this company is not yet devoted to privacy. Investors looking at all this might be inclined to sell.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 7, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_70353952-300x200.jpg)
The Internet Civil War
The internet is in jeopardy. A small band of global technology companies have achieved a scale and influence that dwarfs most countries, and an existential split over the internet has emerged between nations. If we are going to retain the internet's extraordinary social, economic, and democratic power, we must push back.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 25, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_0245-scaled-1-300x225.jpg)
My Trump-Era Davos Takeaways: Optimism on UN & Climate
The reports may have made it sound grim, but my takeaway from Davos was optimism about beating back climate change. And the idea that business can make money while doing good for the planet and society is a more and more mainstream idea.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 30, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Sandberg-DLD-300x149.jpg)
David Kirkpatrick’s Travel Journal: JFK-SIN-MUC, Facebook, Sandberg
Editor-in-chief David Kirkpatrick is in the midst of a round-the-world swing for Techonomy, doing interviews and moderating programs. From Singapore to Munich, to Davos, David shares highlights from his interview with Jerry Yang, his takeaways from Sheryl Sandberg's appearance at DLD, and more.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 22, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_719376568-300x204.jpg)
Study: AI Fears Diminish, But People Seek Help Reskilling
A new study finds people less freaked out about workplace automation than in the past. But it also finds companies more confident than workers that there is enough retraining and preparing going on. The transition is going to require a bigger societal effort than is yet underway.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 21, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/EricssonDinner1-300x162.jpg)
What Will 5G Mean?
At a recent dinner in SF hosted with Ericsson, agreement about the importance and gravity of 5G was near-unanimous. But questions abound- where will it arise first? What will it mean for the internet of things? Can we manage all that data?
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 7, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hans-Vestberg-in-Verizon-office-scaled-1-300x146.jpg)
Interview with Verizon CEO Vestberg: It’s All About 5G
In this exclusive pre-CES conversation, Vestberg talks about what 5G wireless, the industry's new standard, means for society, and for Verizon. For him it's key to how all business, and even government, will be able to improve society.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 4, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MG_8645-scaled-1-300x200.jpg)
Our Theme for 2019: Collaborating for Responsible Growth
To operate successfully in this new era, we are all going to have to learn to collaborate more. The problems and opportunities faced by the world and the United States cannot be addressed by any sector or industry alone.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 3, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20180509_Techonomy_JeffreySachs-6241-300x200.jpg)
Jeffrey Sachs Gets Heat for Defending Huawei
Economist Jeffrey Sachs is under extreme criticism for suggesting that U.S. efforts to prosecute Huawei for violations of sanctions against Iran are counterproductive and harmful to global relations. This article in the South China Morning Post explains his situation in detail.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 3, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tim-bl-scaled-1-300x200.jpg)
What We Learned at Our Conference in a Fraught Time
Techonomy 2018 took place during fraught times, but the learnings were many ab out how to remain optimistic about how tech and business can still drive progress. One central learning: collaboration is key, and more important than ever.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 26, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Michael-Kratsios-Headshot-e1539376770144-300x283.jpg)
How Trump’s Top Tech Advisor Aims to Keep the US Innovative
Michael Kratsios is leading President Trump's national tech policy. Techonomy’s Josh Kampel and David Kirkpatrick recently visited Washington to spend time with Kratsios. What are his priorities? How is the Trump administration thinking about tech and innovation?
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 9, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lowinn-scaled-1-300x200.jpg)
Resilience is Key to Modern Leadership
Johnson & Johnson’s Human Performance Institute at Lake Nona, Florida runs extensive programs to help leaders learn to be healthier, wiser, more grounded, and more effective. Lowinn Kibbey, global head of HPI, recently sat down with Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick for a far-ranging talk about leadership in today's chaotic world.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 8, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/showimage-300x300.jpg)
Tomorrow’s Midterms and Next Week’s Techonomy Conference
No matter the outcome of tomorrow’s U.S. midterm elections, political and business leaders must look inside themselves and examine how their every action, and those of their organizations, affects society’s future and the prospects of individuals in it.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 5, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Techonomy_Spring2018_Cover_McQuade-crop-300x169.jpg)
Facing Facebook’s Failure
Facebook is a broadcast platform for anyone, including those who would break the rules, fake the news, lie, and mislead the community. Societies around the world are reeling from the consequences. Politics and democracy are under duress. And thus far, Facebook does not have an effective way to fight back.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 1, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20181005_095829-300x157.jpg)
Will Software Robots Make Your Job Less Boring?
Robotic Process Automation is a fast-growing software designed to relieve workers of repetitive tasks. Our partner, UiPath sees it as a key to corporate digital transformation.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 5, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/chambers1-scaled-1-300x200.jpg)
We Love Big Questions. It’s the Answers that are Hard.
Tech moves quickly. For most of us, understanding our own behavior and motives as citizens, friends, and consumers can’t even catch up to the reality of our 24/7 immersion in our smartphones. Today's bizarre reality requires even greater effort than in the past, it seems to me. Here's what I think helps.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 10, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kaifu-lee-200x300.jpg)
AI, China, Data, Good Thinking, and our Fall Conference
What is happening with the future of AI, and how will it alter geopolitics? That's the kind of question that motivates our company, and our preparation for our fall conference. China looks strong. Beijing-based computer scientist, investor, and author Kai-Fu Lee will be one of several interpreters.
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 3, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2017-01-24-at-10.31.16-AM-300x253.png)
Two Key Questions Zuckerberg Didn’t Answer
Mark Zuckerberg was interrogated this week by Recode's Kara Swisher, but the results were unsatisfying. The Facebook CEO does show growing contrition, but failed to answer two key questions that would help the world know if we have any hope of reducing the scourge of fake news and privacy violations that Facebook has helped engender.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 20, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Zomorodi-Techonomy-300x200.jpg)
Four Techonomists You’ll Meet at our November Conference
What will our November flagship event be like? Here are four innovative thinkers who will speak at our conference in Half Moon Bay, California- a Wall Street giant, a pioneering journalist, a robotics legend, and the leading expert on Chinese autos. Imagine all of them talking together and the insights that might lead to. Now you're imagining Techonomy 2018
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 19, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/obama-organization-300x200.jpg)
Why Facebook Should Hire Barack Obama
Many of the company's ongoing crises result from an insufficient understanding of global politics and how Facebook changes it. Zuckerberg needs someone he'll listen to, like the 44th president of the United States.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 13, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/chambers-crop-scaled-1-300x236.jpg)
Understand Tech, Understand the World: Techonomy 2018
Understanding how tech alters the world is like trying to understand the world itself. Tech's impacts on society are immense and interrelated. People come to Techonomy to explore all that for themselves and their organizations.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 29, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hackett-PS-scaled-1-300x285.jpg)
Ford Reimagines a Building—and Itself
This is not your grandmother's Ford. CEO Jim Hackett talks like a tech guy and is reconfiguring the company as much as its cars and trucks around a vision of autonomy, electricity and services that go way beyond vehicles.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 21, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/facebook-hq-scaled-1-300x200.jpg)
Why Schrage Left Facebook
Elliot Schrage was a loyal and effective leader for Facebook, but his departure indicates significant shifts are underway at this so-controversial company. Watch who the next policy chief is to see if real change is likely.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 15, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/speakers-610x455-1-300x224.jpg)
T+E NYC Preview: Voices of Responsibility
Our speakers at Techonomy evidence a wide range of ways to think about responsibility. Tech and business can no longer just focus on making money, or assume that because they're from Silicon Valley they are golden. The world wants and desperately needs more.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 4, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20180319_1210-1-300x200.jpg)
Jeffrey Sachs is Mad at Business (Hear More at Techonomy NYC)
Jeffrey Sachs is one of the world’s top development economists and a relentless anti-poverty crusader. Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick sat down with Sachs for a wide-ranging conversation in preparation for our upcoming Techonomy NYC conference on May 8-9 in midtown Manhattan, where the two will continue onstage.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 27, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/brad-smith-e1518042074160-300x220.jpg)
Big Tech’s Conscience to Join Techonomy NYC
Techonomy's program for our May conference in NYC is shaping up quickly. The conversation will range widely across technologies, company strategies, public policy, and the state of human progress. Join Microsoft President Brad Smith, WPP CEO Martin Sorrell, development economist Jeffrey Sachs, Vimeo CEO Anajli Sud, and more.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 9, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/benioff-wef-300x200.jpg)
Tech Takes Davos While Facebook Takes Hits
The World Economic Forum this year was practically the World Technology Forum. Unlike in years past, leaders there, especially heads of state, acknowledged the depth of transformation underway in a digitized economy. Meanwhile attendees and press much criticized the net giants, notably Facebook, for threats they may pose to mental health and democracy.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 29, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_787222123-300x300.jpg)
Investing in Bitcoin is Antisocial
Bitcoin is all the rage until it's not. A libertarian dream, it implies a distrust of established governments. This has finally sunk in on the governments themselves, and may be a cause of its continued decline. The associated blockchain technology, however, may be the real keeper.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 18, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/chambers1-300x200.jpg)
Why We Need More Techonomics
in 2018
Never in my adult lifetime has there been so much fear about what could go wrong. There are challenges, yes, but we are excited, not daunted by them.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 5, 2018![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/zuckerberg-200x300.jpg)
We Lost on Net Neutrality. We Have a Bigger Problem.
Concerned about the FCC's net neutrality ruling? Many of the very things neutrality advocates most feared are already happening on Google and Facebook. Where's the activism?
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 21, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/te-2017-welcome-300x200.jpg)
Techonomy’s Purpose–Nine Assertions
Techonomy is not a neutral journalistic organization. We are advocates for the responsible use of technology, which seems more urgent than ever as technology continues to race ahead of society.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 30, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MG_6814-300x200.jpg)
“Vitriol” Toward Net Giants Was an Unexpected Theme of Techonomy 2017
Facebook and Google took the brunt of criticism at Techonomy 2017, the net giants serving as proxies for an entire tech industry that increasingly appears unwilling to take responsibility for the power it wields.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20170517_Techonomy_FredWilson-9524-300x200.jpg)
Could Blockchain-based Systems Replace Facebook?
Few topics are hotter than blockchain right now. In this excerpt from our conversation with Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures at Techonomy NYC in May, he explains why he thinks such tools could even be the way an insurgent might challenge the overwhelming dominance of Facebook.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 2, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2519-digital-gods-400-243x300.jpg)
Amazon, Facebook, and Google: Too big to tolerate. Too big to stop.
As society begins to realize it has allowed globe-spanning commercial net giants too much power, it also becomes clear that figuring a policy response will be hard. Techonomy's co-founder, author of The Facebook Effect, weighs in on the disturbing and growing controversy over what comes next.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 23, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Stitch-Fix-1-300x161.png)
For Stitch Fix, the AI Future Includes Jobs
Katrina Lake became the first female chief executive officer to take a company public in the U.S. this year when Stitch Fix Inc. started trading on Friday. The company suffuses itself in analytics and artificial intelligence. But its 3400-and-growing pool of stylists suggests that a future world infused with AI may not decimate the workforce after all. To hear how it operates feels like receiving brain waves from the future.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 2, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_8679-300x225.jpg)
What’s Techonomic Now?
The news is techonomic: Equifax attack exposes data of nearly half of all Americans; Amazon price drops at Whole Foods decimate grocery stocks; Apple Watch used by Red Sox for cheating; Facebook harbored Russian fake news. Tech is altering business and society, which is why Techonomy 2017 in November is aimed explicitly at helping attendees understand how to cope and thrive amidst the digital chaos.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 8, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_516791146-300x200.jpg)
Can Tech Help trump Hate?
How did technological change and "innovation" contribute to bringing the U.S. to this point of fracture and animosity? And how can tech play a more active and consciously constructive role helping us get past it? In general the tech industry has not focused sufficiently on these questions. Now it must.
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 18, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/KathleenBreitman-300x200.jpg)
Talking with Tezos Co-Creator Kathleen Breitman
Kathleen Breitman is person of the hour. Her company developed Tezos, a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency whose ongoing fundraising has raised over $200 million since July 1. We talked to her about why she thinks this is the way to make a better internet, and a better world.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 7, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DuBois_hindsight_is_2020_Lincoln-300x240.jpg)
R. Luke DuBois: An Artist Who Just Happens to Use Computation
R. Luke DuBois is a man of many talents: musician, visual artist, and data scientist. In a recent interview with Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick, he spoke about his inspirations and gave a behind-the-scenes look at his unique dual video portrait of Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. (From the latest issue of Techonomy Magazine)
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 6, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_333156563-300x200.jpg)
“Omigod!”…and other Exclamations Upon Reading WSJ’s Piece on Facial Recognition in China
Do you want your photo flashed on a sign at an intersection? If not, don't jaywalk in China. Leave aside what happens if you're a dissident traveling in a new region. Here's a headline the WSJ used for this must-read article: "The All-Seeing Surveillance State Feared in the West is a Reality in China."
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 27, 2017![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
The Biggest Question Facing Internet Technology
This Guardian column by Rohan Gunatillake asks a question so obvious it sounds absurd: What if tech tried to be healing instead of just addictive? In a time when our biggest platforms are acquiring outsize influence in how society functions, it's an urgent topic all technologists need to engage with.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 26, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/David-conference-photo-300x225.jpg)
Traversing Europe’s Stellar Tech Firmament
Chief Techonomist David Kirkpatrick was blown away by Europe's energy and tech creativeness on a recent swing, both by how good the conferences were and by the importance of the digital revelations he had. Self-flying cars, anyone?
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 23, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Pitney-Bowes-Image5-300x200.jpg)
Why Twitter and eBay Rely on 100-year-old Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes, a powerhouse in the era when sending print mail was the primary way of communication, is fully in the present today. Now, the company is emerging as a crucial part of the digital ecosystem, operating a back-end software and services infrastructure that enables Twitter to assign a location to a tweet, eBay's customers to buy and sell goods from anywhere in the world, and other services.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 9, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_615538391-300x199.jpg)
Impressive Bipartisan Senate Action Promotes Online Healthcare
The Senate Finance Committee has moved legislation to finance telehealth services via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, reports Modern Healthcare. The fact that it was the powerful Finance Committee that took this action is all the more significant, and welcome. Could it portend ongoing support for digital health measures in Congress? It would be wonderful to think so...
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 14, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/unnamed-9-300x112.jpg)
A User’s Manual to Techonomy Health and NYC in Mid-May
Techonomy's conferences about tech's impact are absurdly ambitious. But that's what makes them unique, useful, and fun. To understand what's happening because of tech in the world you need to discuss way more than the next iPhone or what's happening in the tech industry. We like to say every company is a tech company. Our Health and NYC events May 16th & 17th are for anyone who wants to understand where the world is heading and what it means for business.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 7, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/8892705685_7476e81459_o-e1488400321813-300x275.jpg)
At Eyebeam, Tech Meets Poetry and Aesthetics
A hadron collider for art and technology, Eyebeam is a Brooklyn incubator that launches companies and art projects, benefitting both. Its aesthetic centers on the rapid-moving world of technology. This institution doesn't care if you call yourself an artist or an engineer, so long as you're making things that matter.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 16, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2017-03-06-at-10.30.08-AM-300x265.png)
Tech:NYC Celebrates and Shapes New York’s Tech Industry
Tech:NYC draws together local tech companies large and small to work with government, build industry ties and cultivate critical tech talent. It was only formed last year, but is already having a significant impact, both underscoring and contributing to the robust growth of technology in New York.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 7, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Romantik-Seehotel-300x188.jpg)
Wary of Insecure IoT, Hotels Reconsider Old-Fashioned Keys
Today's Most-Techonomic-Article prize goes to the New York Times for this piece about a successful "ransomware" attack in January on a resort hotel in the Austrian Alps. A hacker infiltrated the hotel's network and succeeded in locking all the rooms, rendering keycards unusable. The owner relented and paid $1800. The DOJ estimates that such attacks happen 4,000 times a day in the U.S.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 31, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_395115784-300x300.jpg)
More Companies Think Techonomically at CES
More "non-tech" companies than ever were at this year's CES conference in Las Vegas. The winners in the evolving digital and technologized economy will be those leaders who think most broadly. As the ever-curious Elon Musk has long understood, "Learning across multiple fields provides an information advantage (and therefore an innovation advantage) because most people focus on just one field."
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 10, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_279493349-300x190.jpg)
The Short-Term Triumph of Short-Termism
Technology is rapidly changing every sector of the economy, as well as the nature of warfare. President-elect Donald Trump doesn't seem to get it. But if you lack a sense of the role of tech, you will only be operating for the short-term.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 5, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2016-12-22-at-11.43.51-AM-265x300.png)
Amazon IS Santa Claus
The decades-long process of Amazon taking over consumer product sales continues this holiday season with the company's dominance achieving daunting levels. The online retailer expects its peak shipments volume this year to be 10% greater than last year. In New York City, the superintendents in apartment buildings have been struggling this season to contain the huge mounds of online-ordered boxes.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 22, 2016![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
The Fuzzy Future of AI and Jobs
Are we headed towards a world where machines do everything? Are jobs drying up because of AI and automation? It's a growing theme in our work at Techonomy. Discussions at our recent conference and a variety of stories and encounters with experts have underscored for us how hard it is to draw a firm conclusion about whether to be excited or scared.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 9, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2016-11-21-at-5.09.06-PM-235x300.png)
How The Internet of Things Will Fight Climate Change
The Internet of Things may shift how our energy system works as much as the steam engine reconfigured Western economies at the start of the industrial revolution. As the world focuses on its climate crisis, we must become more energy-efficient, produce less carbon dioxide, and power more things with electricity from wind and solar. IoT can make it possible.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 22, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CareSensus-measurements_kitchen-edited-300x168.jpg)
Unlocking Healthcare’s Data
We need technology to bring new solutions to global healthcare. And the potential of the Internet of Things is just beginning. Computing power, miniaturization, mobile, big data, the cloud, and social networks are driving this critical trend. Almost two in five are projected to use wearable monitoring devices by 2019. The resulting data can make the world dramatically healthier.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 7, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MWC_Kirkpatrick_Zuckerberg-scaled-1-300x206.jpg)
Techonomy 2016: A Chat with Zuckerberg, and Much More
Mark Zuckerberg is just the most prominent of a proudly diverse and eminent group of speakers at Techonomy 2016 Nov. 9-11. We'll also hear from Ray Kurzweil, Prelude Fertility's Martin Varsavsky, Intel's Murthy Renduchintala, Fitbit CEO James Park, Blackberry CEO John Chen, NextEV USA CEO Padmasree Warrior, U.S. CIO Tony Scott, and plenty more.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 27, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.45.50-AM.png)
Tech Challenges for the Next U.S. President: Techonomy’s Community Weighs In
Techonomy asked people coming to the Techonomy conference: What is the most important tech-related issue the incoming administration should tackle? The answers were diverse, but many focused on the challenges of cyber security and immigration.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 27, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_263735459-300x194.jpg)
Clinton, Trump, and the World’s Choices
The world is at a turning point and we have to choose. It is astonishing and daunting how fully Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump symbolize the choice the world faces. Watching their debate last week underscored for me not just how different the two of them are, but how different are the possible futures that confront the world.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 3, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20151109_Techonomy-2304-e1473999321279-300x200.jpg)
Our Weird Possible Data-Centric Futures: Listen as We Plan Techonomy 2016
Listen in to Techonomy's program planners as they discuss some big issues we're building sessions around for the Techonomy 2016 conference, November 9-11 in California. This year we’ve honed in on the reality that the world is entering a completely new era, as data-gathering of all sorts accumulates across global society. How will society determine who gets to control and utilize data about people? How much will people get access to data about themselves and their communities? What relative powers over data will companies, governments, and individuals have?
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 23, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FullSizeRender-4-216x300.jpg)
Tim O’Reilly Nails the Importance of Amazon’s Echo/Alexa
Tim O'Reilly (who is joining us at Techonomy 2016 in November) has written the best piece about Alexa yet. He doesn't just rave about the machine's astonishing capabilities, but breaks it down so we begin to understand what causes it to so romance users. It's not just the information behind it but how it prioritizes tasks and allows us to interact. It's a must-read for anyone who wants to understand where technology is going.
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 22, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_356401364-300x200.jpg)
Report from Europe: Brexit Vote Reflects Global Failure
The shocking Brexit vote in the UK may be a landscape-altering moment that will shift how we have to view the world. At a top-level conference in Germany there was both near-despair and some hope. But nobody was sanguine, and the overarching issue of how to deal with a world increasingly awash with refugees loomed very large.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 28, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20160525_TechonomyNY-7327-1-300x200.jpg)
Endless Questions on AI at a Techonomy Dinner
How big an impact will artificial intelligence have on business and society? Should we fear it? What will it mean for jobs? At a recent Techonomy salon dinner discussion on AI, top leaders from Accenture, IBM, SAP, and Verizon, among others, gave some fascinating answers.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 28, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20160526_TechonomyNYC-1858-300x200.jpg)
A Field Guide to Techonomy NYC
When organizing a conference, you never really know it’s going to work until it’s over. So we're pretty darn gratified that by all accounts, our first ever Techonomy NYC event was a rousing success. Tech is rocking along, changing things right and left, and here you could feel it happening. Here is what happened, with links to all the session videos, transcripts, and photos you want to see.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 7, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_194211227-300x200.jpg)
Techonomy NYC Is a Lens on a New Kind of Society
We curated an astonishingly diverse group of speakers to provoke us on May 26 about how tech and the Internet of Things points to an entirely new sort of society. It changes health, cities, how we'll work, business structure and strategy, the future of marketing, and more. The entire event, which took place Thursday May 26, is now available on video. Program details here: https://techonomystg.wpenginepowered.com/conf/nyc/agenda/.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 25, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_417896572-300x171.jpg)
It Took Us Six Years to Develop Techonomy NYC (Finally, It’s May 26!)
The perspective you get doing business and journalism in New York is global, in context of every industry, and grounded in human, social and political realities. So it's about time we organized here the kind of big-picture conversation about how tech changes everything that Techonomy uniquely curates. An amazing group of speakers from tech, business, government, and media help us understand the Internet of Things and much more.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 13, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TechonomyNYCillo-300x230.jpg)
Techonomy Finally Comes to NYC on May 26!
Join leading thinkers at our first day-long hometown conference, Techonomy NYC on Thursday, May 26. Here in New York we get different insights and see opportunities we might miss in Silicon Valley, or anywhere else. Speakers include Agus, boyd, Everson, Federer, Foroohar, Morgan, Rosenworcel, Ruh, Sundararajan, Tantoco, Tett, Winkler, and many more. It's going to rock.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 16, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Paola-Antonelli-300x169.jpg)
Without Design, Innovation Doesn’t Happen: A Conversation with Paola Antonelli
Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture & design and director of R&D at The Museum of Modern Art, is a passionate advocate for the importance of design in society and business. Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick conducted this extensive interview with her over lunch in New York.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 6, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_400890058-300x200.jpg)
Why Verizon is Betting on The Internet of Things
The "Internet of Things" is the next big move as the economy goes digital. Measuring and acting on signals generated by everything from steps individuals take to the amount of water flowing over a dam, a vast new industry is emerging to bring more efficiency to society. In a comprehensive new report released Tuesday, Verizon outlines why this Internet of Things (IoT) transition is critical to business. The company has products, a platform, and enormous enthusiasm for this transformation.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 5, 2016![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Philips CEO van Houten on Digital Health’s Future
Philips CEO Frans van Houten was a big presence at the giant recent HIMSS healthcare & tech conference in Las Vegas. HIMSS is where the digital world meets the world of health, and Philips aims increasingly to be a central player in that conjunction. I interviewed van Houten briefly on the show floor and separately conducted a lengthy interview with him on stage. He has five lessons he wants healthcare to learn from other industries.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 16, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AmazonEcho_2749_HR-scaled-1-300x200.jpg)
Why Ford’s Work with Amazon will Echo Widely
Amazon's Echo ambient voice interface device is a breakthrough with growing implications for the future of computing. And the relationship developing between Amazon and Ford to add vehicle-related functions to Echo's cloud service is one more piece of evidence to show how vast Echo's potential could be. Soon you will be able simply to speak in your living room to turn on your car, set its heater for 72, or perform all sorts of other tasks relating to your vehicle.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 24, 2016![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Two Great CEOs from Companies that Span Industries
Bernard Tyson of Kaiser Permanente and John Chen of Blackberry are two of the most amazing CEOs in the world. Tyson leads and is expanding one of the most important and innovative companies in the U.S. healthcare system. Chen, for his part, has had an eminent and highly successful career, especially in transforming, growing and selling Sybase. Now he is bluntly and unemotionally tackling one of the most challenging tasks in business--rescuscitating Blackberry. They spoke together at Techonomy 2015 in Half Moon Bay.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 12, 2016![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
How Should We Think About the Internet of Things?
Sara Gardner of Hitachi Data Systems explains why we need to take a bigger-picture view of the Internet of Things.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 11, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2_Inspire-empower-scaled-1-300x201.jpg)
Digital Tools Will Keep Us Healthier, a Davos Dinner Concludes
At a fascinating dinner in Davos, health care leaders tackled the changing face of healthcare in a digital age, and how technology can empower both patients and caregivers. The deeply-informed group was optimistic that huge progress is possible, and soon. The host was healthcare technology giant Philips,
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 3, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FullSizeRender-4-216x300.jpg)
The Internet of CES Things
CES was a gigantic, if predictable, letdown when it comes to "consumer electronics." Everything seemed incremental. People ask each other "What's the most interesting thing you've seen?" My answer was an announcement not a device--Amazon's deal with Ford to put its Echo "Alexa" technology inside of cars. It was the Internet of Things that loomed large in the background--not to make connected toasters but to transform society with connected efficiency.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 11, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_6570-300x225.jpg)
Thoughts on the Plane to CES
Every January just after New Year's, as if to force upon recently idle strivers the urgency of redoubling their labors, converge hundreds of thousands of tech-focused leaders, strategists, inventors, financiers, retailers, and journalists. CES is American tech's biggest trade show, fiesta, business meeting, glad-handing exercise, walking course, and source of both elation and frustration. Says Slava Rubin, CEO of Indiegogo, who we ran into at our hotel's check-in: "CES is one giant networking event."
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 6, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/modifacebook_27-300x200.jpg)
The Facebook Pushback in India: Anti-Corporate, Anti-American, Anti-Poor
There's huge controversy in India over Facebook's "Free Basics" Internet plan, part of the global Internet.org initiative the company has been spearheading. Facebook's aim, it says, is to get more people onto the Internet, since being online is essential for participation in any modern economy. In India, however, the project is encountering fierce resistance from elites who say it violates "net neutrality." But do all the critics--mostly upper-class and affluent Indian pundits, professors and anti-corporate activists--have a better way to get many millions of less-privileged Indians onto the Internet?
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 3, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Snowman-scaled-1-232x300.jpg)
Unfazedly Optimistic Holiday Greetings!
And so another year ends–with stunning speed and with surprising and slightly disturbing warmth here in New York. Techonomy wishes you happy and merry and a new year of continued optimism, despite the mood of the moment. Here are some thoughts about the kind of world we can collectively create, worth keeping in mind as a new year dawns amidst escalating short-sighted rhetoric and much distraction.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 27, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Sean-Parker-session-300x200.jpg)
Four Ways Techonomy 2015 Made News: “Why hasn’t every CEO committed to making sure women and men are paid the same?”
At least four big things happened at Techonomy 2015: Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced the department's Digital Economy Agenda, Marc Benioff called for equality as a corporate virtue, social network creator Sean Parker criticized social networks as havens of narcissism, and McKinsey explained just how complex for every kind of worker will be the transition to a partially-automated world.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 5, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/indoor-ag-shot-300x200.jpg)
Will Programming Plants Feed the World?
By 2025 food shortages and price fluctuations could be a thing of the past, everywhere. New technologies for cultivating plants indoors could feed eight billion people, save energy and dramatically reduce pollution. But beyond the growing enthusiasm for "vertical farms" or "plant factories" lies the potential to alter elements in the recipe for these environments to create plants and foods with no precedent–more nutritious, hardy, or tasty–or whatever other characteristics we decide to favor.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 25, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Techonomy-Report-2015-Cover-scaled-1-225x300.jpg)
Techonomy Magazine: Future Healthcare, Indoor Agriculture, Design, Global Inclusion…
The latest issue of the print and digital Techonomy Magazine includes articles on topics ranging from how the emergence of genomic medicine challenges the American health care system to a deep look at how technologized indoor agriculture may remake not only what we eat but its environmental consequences as well. We look at the inclusive potential of the Blockchain, and sit down with Museum of Modern Art design curator Paola Antonelli. There are also sections with fascinating quotes from our Bio, Policy and Detroit conferences from earlier in the year.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 24, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Simonephoto-e1446919539283-scaled-1-225x300.jpg)
The Shock and Awe of Techonomy 2015
Techonomy 2015 is done, and we're all still resonating with the thinking that emanated from that packed stage in Half Moon Bay. Links in this post go to the videos of various sessions and you can go directly to the full menu on the conference report page. The video above is one of the most noteworthy sessions, a surprising conversation called Gods In Boxes, about the values that underlie the algorithms that surround us.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20141110-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_32841-300x201.jpg)
Techonomy 2015: Human Values in An Age of Tech
The transition to a technologized and interconnected society is challenging for everyone, everywhere. As we gain new efficiencies and capabilities, we still need to keep amity and constructive human interaction as our supreme priority. But it's not easy. That's why we call the upcoming Techonomy 2015 conference "Re-Humanizing Society." The opening session on Sunday November 8 is "Human Values in a Technologized Age." Joining the conversation in Half Moon Bay, California: Benioff, Chambers, Lanier, Parker, Prabhakar, and Pritzker.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 8, 2015![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg on the Next Phase in Wireless–5G
What comes after so-called 4G wireless, today’s highest-bandwidth systems (sometimes called LTE)? Even though only a small portion of smartphone users in a few countries so far have 4G, Ericsson, one of the telecoms industry’s leading tech providers, is already deep into planning the next phase. These 5G systems will differ dramatically from those today, […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 4, 2015![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
When Everything Gets Connected, How Does it Transform the System?
Hans Vestberg, CEO of Ericsson, which makes much of the world’s wireless infrastructure, sees an even more connected world in our future. In this short excerpt of a conversation with Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick, he explains that as more and more of our devices are online and interacting, and as mobile broadband dovetails with cloud services, […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 30, 2015![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
The Mind-Boggling Challenges of a Private and Secure Net
Digital privacy isn’t simple for anyone–consumers, the companies that hold data, or the government. In this high-profile session at Techonomy Policy in June 2015, leaders from AT&T and Microsoft joined venture capitalist Brad Burnham and FCC Commissioner Julie Brill in a probing conversation that underscored the many challenges. Brill worries that consumers do not understand […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 27, 2015![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Citi Ventures’ Colella on Disruption and the Pace of Change
“Every industry…is ripe for some kind of disruption,” says Citi Ventures’ Vanessa Colella, a veteran investor and tech expert embedded in the heart of a major multinational financial institution. In this video interview, conducted by Techonomy at a recent dinner jointly hosted with Citi Ventures, Colella speaks about the challenges and opportunities for big companies […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 21, 2015![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Towards a Bipartisan Tech Strategy in D.C.
Should America have a bipartisan technology agenda? It certainly seems like a good idea. And Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey argued for one emphatically at the closing session of the Techonomy Policy conference in Washington in early June. What made the session remarkable, at least to those of us whose expectations are dulled by the deluge of punditry proclaiming partisan deadlock in Washington, is that Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska agreed with him. Fischer of course is a Republican, and Booker a Democrat. Booker says we are now too often choking innovation rather than allowing it to flourish. Meanwhile, Sean Parker, the tech entrepreneur and investor, who joined the two onstage, spoke passionately about his own bipartisan approach to policy advocacy. He says his friends call him crazy for not just supporting politicians of one party, but he says he thinks "it's actually quite sane."
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 13, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_272183825-300x196.jpg)
Why Donald’s Reality Trumps the News
Experts across the political spectrum profess to be mystified by the skyrocketing Trump campaign. Politico recently published a piece with predictions from 16 of them about how the straw-topped candidate's efforts will end. One who sounded on target was Mary Matalin, the longstanding Republican strategist, who professed her admiration for Trump's "authenticity." That's part of what I think has thrust this reality show into the forefront of American politics.
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 3, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/riftcv-300x169.jpg)
What to Expect from Oculus’ Big Event Today
The Oculus event marks a milestone for the company and for its owner Facebook. While its Oculus Samsung Gear VR viewer for Samsung smartphones has been on the market awhile, it has been limited to people who have a couple specific models of smartphone and also to very limited amounts of VR content, generally of a much lower quality than will soon be possible. Today's 1:00 pm ET event marks the first time Oculus has told the world exactly what kind of experience to expect from its flagship PC-connected device, which we hope will emerge later this year.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 11, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_210178846-300x200.jpg)
What if We Treated our Children with the Respect They Deserve?
If only our country focused on finding the potential in its children, amazing things could happen, as this inspiring article from The New York Times shows. When a committed philanthropist spent a relatively small amount of money, $11 million over 21 years, it completely turned around student educational attainment in a mid-sized predominantly African-American town in Florida. It also had a major positive impact on the community itself. The key was aggressive early-childhood education, along with training for parents.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 27, 2015![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Techonomy Policy June 9 in DC: the Age of Data Exhaust
Recently Techonomy hosted a dinner in New York, and our guests wanted relentlessly to talk about data. Where will society produce it? How much can we manage? Who will control it? What will they do to us with it? How can individuals retain influence over it? These are elemental questions for our era. They are questions that not only citizens, but government itself needs to be methodically asking. The dinner had nothing to do with our impending Techonomy Policy conference next Tuesday, June 9, in Washington. But it’s no coincidence that the opening session is entitled “Keeping America Innovative In the Age of Data Exhaust.”
By David Kirkpatrick
May 12, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_243194389-300x200.jpg)
How Tech Fights Problems Caused by Tech
We live in a time of increasingly obsessive worry that our lives are being worsened by the tech that surrounds us. We are sacrificing our privacy, we hear, as we dwell online. We don't spend enough time with real people and too much instead in virtual interaction. We suffer from shortening attention spans. And on and on. However, there are likely to be endless ways to employ tech to combat the effects of tech that we decide we really do not like. This article in The Chronicle of Higher Education is about tools to reduce distraction while taking online courses. It points toward what's possible. Careful research on students showed that using software to give them incentives not to stop studying really worked.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 27, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_212859271-300x200.jpg)
Why Starbucks Should Be Talking About Race
Starbucks is in the crosshairs. How dare it ask its employees, customers, and America to discuss the role of race and racism in American society? The company recently began a project it calls "Race Together," in partnership with USA Today, aiming to begin a lengthy process of discussion and reflection on the inequities and distortions in American society, and even in the minds of all of us. What right does it have to do that? Hypocrisy! cry the critics. The pushback has been brutal, especially on Twitter, where extended and respectful discussion is almost impossible. Starbucks is being wrongly vilified. Why is it so hard for all these cavilers to accept the possibility that the company realizes its employment numbers are unequal and inappropriate, by any impartial moral standard?
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 1, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/eb418553-07d1-4b93-a9a9-55b436540ddf-282x300.png)
Next Week’s Techonomy Bio: A Focus on Systems of Life
At last year's Techonomy Bio, we put venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson on a panel of investors. In his enthusiasm for the unbridled potential of innovation in the life sciences to transform society, Jurvetson at one point said "we're sitting on a can of miracles." Why a can? He did not say, but his observation became a kind of touchstone for us at Techonomy for why we continue to build this event. "Sitting on a Can of Miracles" is what we're calling this year's session on investing in bio-progress. Jurvetson himself we have promoted to our opening panel, which our Director of Programs Alex Cudaback christened "You Say You Want a Revolution?" Here we ask where we'll see the most impact from life sciences innovation, and how information technology is driving bio-progress.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 17, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/og_apple_watch_edition-300x300.jpg)
Why the “Luxury” of Apple’s Watch Is Beside the Point
After putting down yet another slavishly admiring profile of top Apple designer Jony Ive this weekend in the egregiously-named "How to Spend It" magazine published by the Financial Times, I had a nagging sense that something was wrong. Of course, like all the strategically placed articles about Ive in recent weeks, this one was yet another indirect attempt by Apple to create a slavishly admiring article about the incipient Apple Watch. The Watch, Apple is desperate to let us know, is imminent, and we ought to care. But what is it, exactly, that Apple is telling us we ought to care about?
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 9, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DK-article-300x263.jpg)
The Mixed Reality of Increasing Global Equity
In late January both Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, two entities founded by the same guy, announced major new directions that have a weird and provocative parallelism. One is a new product category from Microsoft, and the other a new vision for global economic progress from the Gates Foundation. Both merit our attention, not only as organizational initiatives but as powerful visions for the world's future.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 2, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_189929462-300x200.jpg)
Did Crummy Weather Tech Force the Politicians’ Blizzard Error?
Could better technology have prevented today's shocking decision-making blunder by Governor Andrew Cuomo and other political officials about winter storm Juno that led to a total economic shutdown across the Northeast United States? Weather prediction technology in the United States is dangerously antiquated. And overly-timid U.S. governmental spending and political considerations are preventing the system from remaining state-of-the-art.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 27, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Comstockbr1-scaled-1-225x300.jpg)
GE’s Comstock: The Imperative Is Speed
General Electric Senior Vice President Beth Comstock stopped by Techonomy's office recently to talk about corporate innovation. Besides overseeing all GE's sales and marketing activities, she's responsible for growth and market innovation. She rose through corporate communications to become GE's CMO, then ran sales and digital for NBC Universal before her current job. When we asked about her light bulb experiences, we didn't know that shortly after our meeting CEO Jeff Immelt would give her an additional job leading GE's $3 billion lighting business. We started by asking how someone with a marketing background got so interested in innovation.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 21, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/govRev2_2-scaled-1-227x300.jpg)
Can Government Get a Better Grip on Tech?
"I'm very worried," says Neelie Kroes, who has served as a vice president of the European Commission since 2010. "The changes in technology nowadays are so fast that we have to change our mindset. This is my biggest frustration in the commission. It takes so much time for governments to know what is at stake. We can't consult ten times about issues like we did in former times." Kroes's concerns are widely shared, especially in the United States. Says Steve Case, who spends as much time as any major tech leader working with leaders of both parties in Washington: "The pace of innovation continues to accelerate and outstrip the ability of governments to react."
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 9, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ritz_HalfMoonBay_00143_Galleries_1280x720-300x169.jpg)
The Techonomy 2014 Conference Looms–And We’re Ready
In a couple weeks our Techonomy conference continues the dialogue we began in 2010 on how tech transforms business and society. We've moved from Arizona to a beautiful cliffside location at the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco. It will be our best ever.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 25, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_184359812-300x199.jpg)
Cultures of Innovation
Big and venerable companies around the world are increasingly confronting a vexing problem: They’re too big and venerable. The ironic truth: To get even bigger, they have to learn to act small. Executives increasingly believe that new ideas and innovations that can generate growth are most likely to emerge in organizations like small start-ups. So the mandate for large companies is to find ways to replicate the culture and practices of smaller companies inside their walls.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 9, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1b2b03b-229x300.jpg)
Ray Ozzie’s Latest Invention Has Everybody Talking
Ray Ozzie is betting the next phase of his career on reinventing the phone call. Ozzie yesterday launched Talko, a voice application that is built with an Internet foundation. "We feel voice calls are ripe for a rebirth," says his Talko co-founder Matt Pope. "We start from a reconceptualization of what a phone call could be and weave messaging elements into that." Ozzie is one of the great tech visionaries of the modern era. In the 1980s he invented Lotus Notes, an enterprise PC app that in many ways laid the groundwork for the social and sharing-oriented world we live in today. It was the first widely-used collaborative software, or groupware.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 24, 2014![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Techonomy Taps Detroit’s Magic on Sept. 16
When Techonomy's Chief Program Director Simone Ross first proposed in late 2011 that we consider doing an entire conference in Detroit, I was a little confused. Detroit? Isn't Techonomy all about cutting edge, shiny, new, transformative technologies and the things being transformed? Why head to America's most distressed big city? But Simone convinced me to head there with her before Christmas that year and I, like her, became captivated. Techonomy is back in Detroit for our third annual Techonomy Detroit conference on Tuesday, September 16, because it turns out to be the perfect place for a "techonomic" discussion about a number of trends everybody needs to understand better.
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 29, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2014-08-29-at-10.13.21-AM-300x166.png)
Why Amazon’s Newly-Bought Twitch Has Value
I'm not sure why Amazon is the one who wants to own Twitch, but it must be part of the merchant's desire to broaden more fully into online media and become a real network of entertainment and content. This elucidating review of a Twitch viewing experience from Re/code underscores several things: the uniqueness of the platform's interface and viewing experience, the immaturity of many of its users, and the power of the brand among those testosterone-fueled boys and young men. It could be a dicey property for a would-be decorous part of the global media landscape to manage, but Bezos thought it was worth a billion dollars, so anybody who wants to know where media is going needs to be alert to it.
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 29, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_149773208-300x300.jpg)
The End of Industries
In my field of business journalism, writers have traditionally had "beats" that corresponded to specific industries. One might cover energy, autos, airlines, financial services, or media. Similarly, analysts on Wall Street have specialized along similar lines. Rankings and ratings of companies by industry continue to proliferate. But today such categorizations are increasingly an obstacle to understanding rather than useful demarcations for meaningful analysis. Many of today's most exciting companies do not fall neatly into a conventional category. Business in a technologized age has raced ahead to a new unbounded shape.
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 2, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1406-Techonomy-Bio-554-300x200.jpg)
What We Learned at Techonomy Bio
Techonomy's offices on Manhattan's West 22d Street have been buzzing ever since our half-day Techonomy Bio conference on June 17. We got an overwhelmingly positive reception for a meeting that brought leading researchers and experts in the life sciences together with IT and Internet thinkers and business generalists. Drew Endy, a Stanford professor who is one of the world's leaders in synthetic biology, on stage called the event "awesome" and said he had never seen such a collection of people in one place. "People in other sectors of technology simply don’t know very much about biology and biology’s economic impact," he said.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 28, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DSC_0522-300x199.jpg)
Magisto’s A.I. Helps Anyone Produce Polished Video
Magisto wants to do for video what Instagram did for photos—provide intuitive tools to edit and enhance them and make them easy to share. Founded in Israel in 2009 by two experts in computer vision and artificial intelligence, Magisto enables a user to simply select photos and videos on their smartphone, choose a visual theme, and automatically create a sophisticated edited product in minutes. There's a lot of computer science on the back end making that possible. Magisto launched in January 2012 at the Consumer Electronics Show, won an app competition there, and now has 20 million registered users worldwide, up from 3 million last year. With 30 employees, the company has offices in Tel Aviv, New York, and San Francisco. Techonomy sat down with Magisto CEO Oren Boiman for a wide-ranging talk about video, social media, and how people want to express themselves.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 25, 2014![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Why We Launched the Techonomy Bio Conference
For us here at Techonomy, next Tuesday's Techonomy Bio conference is a catalytic and mind-expanding moment. It's a half-day foray into the systems of life. We come from the world of IT and the Internet, but have concluded that becoming too embedded in it will increasingly be a deep limitation. For any of us to innovate and understand the future progress of mankind, we have to recognize that for all their compelling charms, digital tools are just one part of the toolset. Now that biology yields every day to greater understanding, it is going to pull human society into fundamentally new directions.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 13, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Butterfly-203x300.jpg)
Making Art with Brainscans and 3D Printers
Suzanne Anker finds beauty and meaning at the borderlines of science. This visual artist and sculptor talks about “the way in which visual art and the biological sciences intersect because of technology.” She is conversant in the languages of all of them. Anker often takes inspiration from the ways biological information is depicted. Her tools may also come from technological realms. She's been making sculpture with 3D printers for twelve years, since long before the technology became trendy.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 29, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_9282-scaled-1-226x300.jpg)
Dorsey’s First Square Scribbles
In February 2009 Jack Dorsey had recently departed from Twitter, which he co-founded. When his longtime friend Jim McKelvey, a glass blower from St. Louis, lost out on the sale of a $2,000 piece because he was unable to accept credit cards, together they realized that their powerful smartphone devices should be able to process credit cards. So Jack sat down in his apartment with engineer Tristan O’Tierney and drew a series of rough sketches to show how a smartphone credit card app might work. Over that year, he continued elaborating his vision with more drawings.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 27, 2014![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
iCrossing’s Collaboratory Helps Brands Disrupt Themselves
Constance DeCherney is a young marketer with a big new job--creating a special operation inside digital marketing expert iCrossing, hosting mini-summits to bring brands together with landscape-changing startups. Clients like Toyota get together with groups of what she calls, in this exclusive Techonomy video interview, "the boldest disruptors." For that session one participant was Dash, which connects your car using a smartphone app for a social driving experience and to make driving more efficient.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 23, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Farley-III-scaled-1-300x200.jpg)
Ford’s Data-Driven CMO on Mobile, Newsrooms, Tesla, and More
Jim Farley of Ford joined David Kirkpatrick onstage at Techonomy 2013 in Tucson. Farley leads Ford’s drive to connect more closely with customers, and serves not only as Ford's chief marketing officer, but also as chief of its Lincoln division. Farley says that data makes marketers better by enabling greater responsiveness to trends and better targeting. "But," the adds, "there's a whole piece of consumer data we haven't figured out yet.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 19, 2014![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Techonomy Bio Debuts June 17 in Mountain View!
At Techonomy we don't launch new events lightly. So Techonomy Bio is a big step. It's a half-day conference the afternoon of Tuesday June 17 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. We're striding forward because for all our passionate belief in the importance of technology for business and social progress, "technology" is more than the impact of computing and the Internet.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 16, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/09052ea-300x226.jpg)
The Right to Be Forgotten? Europe’s Orwellian Internet Time Warp
When the European Court of Justice—the rough equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court—ruled that individuals have the "right to be forgotten," it took a dangerous step backward. Among many potential negative consequences, it could contribute to slowing global economic growth. The court endorsed a profoundly ahistorical, anti-technological argument about the supposed rights of individuals.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 16, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/W_1302_DMRC_R01_1600_900_90-300x169.jpg)
China’s Hotels Give a Good Sense of its Self-Image
The grandiosity and in many cases inspired designs of the plethora of dramatic new hotels across China provide a window into its psyche. China is big. China is bold. China is where the future is happening. The greenfield of a long-depressed economy enriched with newfound wealth and a newfound sense of its own potential, even a sense of its return to former greatness—all these combine to enable a kind of imperial overreach in architecture. These buildings, many of them, are beautiful. They also bespeak a confidence in the future and a sense of destiny that is lacking in Western culture these days. These stunning buildings also implicitly celebrate technology, because they require so much to build.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 14, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MWC_Kirkpatrick_Zuckerberg-scaled-1-300x206.jpg)
How Big Can Zuckerberg Make the Net?
How much difference can one company make? Mark Zuckerberg appears to be setting out to test that question with his immodest goal of connecting everyone on the planet to the Internet. While many companies talk about "doing well by doing good," Facebook's Internet.org initiative makes most other corporate projects for social betterment look banal. But such extreme ambition is not illogical. A unique combination of circumstances confers on Facebook a position—and perhaps a responsibility—unlike any other company. Facebook's site is the most popular on the global Internet. Over one billion people now use it on phones, making it the most popular mobile app as well. The Internet itself, in turn, is an unprecedented tool for social value and growth, transforming business and individual opportunity around the world.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 2, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ibm_360_color-300x216.jpg)
Making Sense of the Mainframe, 50 Years Later
Computing has changed a lot in the last 50 years, but one 50-year-old technology remains significant. The durability of the mainframe illustrates the maxim that new technologies don't usually replace old ones, but rather coexist alongside them. When the IBM System 360 debuted on April 7, 1964, it was, in effect, the first general-purpose computer of any type. We don't call today's app-laden smartphones mainframes as we use them for everything from texting to watching Netflix movies, but they are the descendants of the 360. Meanwhile, real mainframes that use the basic architecture of the 360 are still essential in business. IBM's current-generation zEnterprise systems have extraordinary capabilities, and can manage 1.1 million transactions per second.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 4, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_184708742-300x300.jpg)
Can We Hold Back Data-Secessionism?
German Chancellor Merkel has called for a "European data network" that would prevent Europe-to-Europe information from passing through the U.S., and the EU has joined with Brazil to build a new undersea fiber optic cable that would be out of the control of U.S. telecoms companies. Up until now, however, Net infrastructure outside of countries like China has sent data packets on routes based on efficiency, not on national origins. Now a former German Defense Minister in Merkel's own government has come out against the mindset that leads to these parochial policies that would "balkanize" the Internet. In an article for Techonomy, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg argues against what he calls "data secessionism."
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 1, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_183056138-300x228.jpg)
This Manufacturing Technique Will Make 3D Printing Seem Old-School
Getting living organisms to do our manufacturing work for us may be the next big shift in materials science. This Quartz article explains how it becomes not inconceivable that in the nearish future we will have biological materials helping us assemble solar panels, for example, or possibly helping work with a variety of different non-biological materials. The ability of living cells to help assemble non-living ones is a big breakthrough the article reports on. It suggests that future capabilities might even include things like tape that repairs itself biologically if it detects that its adhesive is weakening. Wow.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 24, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Nate_Silver_2009-300x222.png)
Nate Silver Is Not the Only Useful Pundit
Data is nothing new. We at Techonomy get excited because there is now more of it, in more massageable forms, which will likely assist society in adding efficiency to all sorts of processes and systems that have heretofore been sloppy or unfair. However, we don't worship at the foot of data, especially not at the cost of deprecating other forms of analysis and interpretation. Which is why we found this essay by the redoubtable Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic gratifying. We admire Nate Silver's election work as much as the next citizen, but I and we agree with Wieseltier that thinking and arguing based on experience and values can be equally, and sometimes more, valuable.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 24, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_175572620-292x300.jpg)
Will the Internet of Things Undermine Capitalism?
Jeremy Rifkin writes in the New York Times about the future of the collaborative, sharing, free economy, making some original new points. Most notably, he argues that because the Internet of Things will radically accelerate the growth of sharing and efficiency, it will implicitly lead to a reduction in capitalism itself and a further rise in the importance of non-profit institutions. The rise of "free goods," tackled directly at Techonomy 2012 by MIT economist Erik Brynolffson, is in Rifkin's opinion now going to extend well beyond the digital and virtual (where things like Gmail, this website, and innumerable other free opportunities are available). Rifkin argues that capitalism, while it has a future, will become a "niche" part of the economy. Philanthropy and NGOs may become much more central to all of our notions of social leadership and economic health.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 17, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_180856184-300x300.jpg)
Does Bitcoin Bite, Bark, or Bumble?
Of all the surprises and gifts tumbling tumultuously from the world's startups and programmers, none are more daunting to the casual observer than Bitcoin. What is it, really? Should I buy some? What would that mean? Where would it be? Why are so many smart people doing so, and creating companies to help others do that? What problems does it solve? For one thing, a transnational currency that can be traded without intermediaries has appeal. But while we can say that confidently, it's not even clear Bitcoin fits that definition. Now at least a thorough examination of the phenomenon has emerged from Goldman Sachs. The company has great incentive to get its analysis of Bitcoin right, so when it says this is not really a currency, we should take note.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 13, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_181142975-300x225.jpg)
Quantifying Yourself? Your Doctor May Finally Notice
Now that so many of us wear Fitbits, Nike Fuelbands, Jawbone Ups, and other devices that track our steps, sleep, calories, and more stuff every day, it's about time that we did more with the information than just compete with each other. Wired explains that Practice Fusion, a major electronic medical records company, is partnering with companies that make heart-rate and diabetes monitors so doctors can start getting data from our devices methodically. It's a baby step but an important one. Practice Fusion expects to include other devices as well.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 12, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_83237551-300x167.jpg)
The Scandal of “Modern” Airplane Communications
It's idiotic that the most important form of modern travel remains a prisoner of 1960s-era technology. Air travel needs a major technology upgrade. This article in the Guardian is just one of many observations emerging in the wake of the disappearance of a 777 traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. How can a modern aircraft just disappear, with nobody even knowing what it was doing for the last hour or so of its flight? Because it had less-sophisticated communications technology in some ways than in your smartphone.
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 10, 2014![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Could WhatsApp Possibly Be Worth $19 Billion?
The past year or so have seen a headlong rush around the world towards simple messaging applications. Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp shows it cannot ignore the rise not only of that service but also of others including WeChat, Line, Viber, and Kik. These services are beginning to play the role that Facebook has mostly played around the world--default mobile app for communication. Their simplicity is their strength. While Facebook is not as existentially threatened as this excellent Buzzfeed article suggests, it's a worthy read if you want to understand the macro context in which Mark Zuckerberg felt he had no choice but to act.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 21, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_173615327-300x200.jpg)
You Don’t Have to Live in Silicon Valley to Start a Company
Just about every city in the world is now teaming with young people (and some older ones) who are starting companies with ambitious and tech-savvy aims. This good essay by a former Facebook European executive underscores how pointless it is for everyone to compare their own region or city with Silicon Valley. Yes that hub will remain potent, but with tech transforming the entire planet there is ample reason for confidence that numerous other places can become vibrant hubs. The bigger challenge for Europe is the continuing prejudice in many countries against entrepreneurship and risk, and labor laws that frequently become punitive.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 17, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Satya_Nadella-300x260.jpg)
What Satya Nadella Told Me Before He Got the Job
Back in early November, right around the time his name started appearing on the short list of candidates to become Microsoft's CEO, I had lunch with Satya Nadella in New York. It was eye-opening for a number of reasons, most of them positive for Microsoft. I left convinced that this guy would be a great choice for the job. His comments carry considerably more meaning now that he really is the new CEO.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 8, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/00f1d8c-300x215.jpg)
Four Reasons Facebook Became a Colossus
The first time I met Mark Zuckerberg I told him he seemed like a natural CEO. He acted offended. "I never wanted to run a company," he said bluntly. Then he added, perfunctorily, "A business is a good vehicle for getting stuff done." But that was September 2006. Facebook was just two-and-a-half years old. He impressed me so much I went back and wrote a column for Fortune, where I worked, entitled Why Facebook Matters. Now the company is ten. (It launched February 4, 2004.) Zuckerberg is 29, not 22. He is no longer embarrassed to be a businessman. By a lucky coincidence of timing, Facebook's quarterly results announced just last Wednesday were spectacular. As the company hits this historic landmark, its financial foundation is provably rock-solid.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 5, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_173871968-300x199.jpg)
Education Experts Say College Becoming Like a Startup
A global survey of leaders in education arrived at six five-year predictions. But they didn't just say social media will burgeon as a tool, along with "blended learning," in which online and offline methods converge. The leaders surveyed by the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative also think college will become more like a startup, literally. Methods that replicate the atmosphere of startups will emerge on campus. And the influence of the maker movement will lead to actually producing things as a way to learn. Also likely to become more important: data-driven learning and assessment, as well as just plain more online learning.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 3, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/logo_retina.png)
At Europe’s DLD: Innovation, Anxiety, and Inspiration
DLD, Continental Europe's highest-level technology conference, opened this week in Munich with a panel on European competitiveness. The key takeaway: Snowden's revelations were, as one European executive said, "A gift to the European Internet industry." Fair enough. But even as the halls vibrated with the sound of cards being exchanged between aggressive Euro-technologists and investors and other hyperconnectors from around the world, the ongoing dominance of the U.S. was in evidence.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 23, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/12a645b-300x200.jpg)
Ray Kelly’s Tech-Centric War on NY Crime
In the waning days of Bloomberg's New York, I threaded my way past multiple checkpoints and up a private elevator in Police headquarters to visit Ray Kelly, who leaves office December 31 along with the mayor. I wanted to understand how he'd used tech during his 12 years as Commissioner of Police, during which city crime dropped 40%. "When the administration came in, this department was the world's largest user of carbon paper and whiteout," is the first thing Kelly said. His apocryphal claim foreshadowed the rest of the interview.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 30, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20131112-techonomy_2013-imgm0283-scaled-2-300x200.jpg)
Business’s Biggest Trend: Convergence Around Tech
At Techonomy, we've argued from the beginning that there is no real difference between a "tech" company and a "company." We held a session entitled "Every Company is a Software Company" at our 2011 conference, and aim to be a central meeting point for traditional companies and startups. This interesting piece from TechCrunch points to the stunning number of acquisitions being made by established, supposedly "non-tech" companies in a wide variety of industries. And the article's list is just the tip of the iceberg.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 16, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2013-12-11-at-10.50.47-AM-300x158.png)
Google Isn’t The Only Way to Research
The fast-growing Digital Public Library of America aims to make accessible the holdings of every library, historical society, and other repository of information. Not just text but photos and other resources flow through this aggregator of sites. The DPLA regularizes the metadata so anyone can search through vast troves of specialized material. Want to find where your great-grandmother lived in rural Minnesota? This is how you may do it.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 11, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20121111_TE12_AT1T0047-300x200.jpg)
Immortality and Collaboration: Onstage at Techonomy 2013
The Saguaros were vibrating outside the hall in Tucson during Techonomy 2013 last week, such were the energy waves emanating from the stage. Or perhaps the foundation of business was shaking. I don't know. One thing that is clear is that the giants of old industry are really starting to think differently about how to conduct their business, organize their companies, and evolve their products.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 21, 2013![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
What Does It Mean to Be in the Revolution Business?
Techonomy 2013 is 11 days away, and as we prep speakers we're getting excited. Those who join us outside Tucson will hear Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini explain how he's building the "Intel Inside of healthcare." Stewart Brand explores the ethos driving tech. Tim O'Reilly and Max Levchin delineate the coming world. Tony Hsieh talks about companies intersecting with cities, especially Zappos' own Las Vegas. A 14-year-old explains Minecraft, and the ZZ Ward plays her soulful music. That's just the start.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 31, 2013![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
The Techonomy Experience Looms
With Techonomy 2013 just weeks away, our team at Broadway and Bond in NoHo is putting the final touches on our best program ever. Techonomy carries a heritage from our many years at Fortune. It's a living magazine. Tina Brown calls conferences "theatrical journalism," and we don't eschew that, but ideas are what get us most excited. The conference opens with a look at the extraordinary ways tech is changing business, and ends with an even bigger-picture look at how innovation is transforming the world and life.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 17, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/513050196_364f218faf_o-300x199.jpg)
Understanding Zuckerberg’s Push for Global Access
In Indonesia, a typical weekend for a typical poor twenty-something frequently begins with a trip to a local store to buy some prepaid data access for his or her cellphone. The rest of the weekend will be spent using up that data, mostly accessing Facebook. As in so much of the world, the main way a huge percentage of Indonesians know what's happening with their friends is by using Facebook. With the announcement this week of Internet.org, a consortium of companies devoted to expanding mobile Internet access in the less-developed parts of the world, Mark Zuckerberg has found firm footing as a leader in public policy. The consortium was his idea, and emerged from his passions.
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 22, 2013![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Washington Post Sees the World “Switch”ing
Today the capital's leading media source (yes, still more important than Politico—after all, even people in New York read it) began publishing a regular blog about the intersection of technology and public policy, called (slightly opaquely) The Switch. This is, in our view, just the kind of techonomic movement that the world, and journalism, needs. As its first post explains, the site's goals will be "making the policy process accessible to technologists, while helping policy professionals gain a deeper understanding of technology."
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 29, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_146229998-300x229.jpg)
Mobile Is a Fundamental Sea Change for All Businesses
One of my favorite pundits for decades has been Bill Gurley, a partner at Benchmark Capital in Silicon Valley. Gurley recently penned this authoritative article on the many reasons why those who miss the transition to apps may miss the next generation of users. This is not the next generation of web/mobile/Internet users. This is the next generation of customers—period. The App economy is global, it is ubiquitous, and it is growing with astonishing speed, as he notes. Gurley's long background as a PC security analyst, author, conference organizer, and for the last decade or so venture investor position him uniquely. His perspective is essential.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 19, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/03f2e5d-300x209.jpg)
Did Obama Just Destroy the U.S. Internet Industry?
News about the National Security Agency's PRISM program and its privileged access to internal user data at nine U.S. Internet companies has unleashed a torrent of justified anger and hand-wringing. But the worries do not go far enough. Almost everybody is still looking at this through a narrow domestic lens. Our values and goals may be more challenged than you think.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 11, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_128502275-300x200.jpg)
Could a Drone Kill You on Its Own?
Drones are among the fastest-growing concerns of citizens and governments worldwide. The U.S. has taken the lead in using them militarily for attacks and assassination, generating extensive criticism and promoting a debate over whether the policy reduces or increases terrorism. Israel, too, has extensively used military drones, and China has admitted contemplating it. Now worries have emerged among rights activists and others that the decision over whether or not to kill may itself be delegated to the drones.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 31, 2013![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Red Flags About Google Glass Hyperventilation
It's one of the defining technologies of our day, already, even though it's not even really released. Everybody has a question or a complaint about Google Glass. Whether you think them cool or creepy, the combination of the technology's potential and the fact that Google is the vendor has the world reacting. Sage observer Larry Downes argues in Harvard Business Review that there is no stopping this tech. But he makes note of calls to regulate it, much like governments that initially insisted someone walk in front of early cars carrying a red flag to warn horse-riders of the oncoming danger. Congress and governments generally seem to have no clue this time, either. Google, meanwhile, is saying nothing.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 27, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_57140281-300x192.jpg)
Class of 2013: Narcissism or Altruism? In a World of Abundance, Time to Decide
I'm jealous of anyone graduating college today. You are stepping as a newly-burnished adult into an era of unprecedented promise, innovation, and opportunity. The world you will witness and contribute to can be fairer, wealthier, and more peaceful than any that people have ever known. What makes all these glories possible is the exponential pace of change driven by technology. Your generation takes that for granted, and revels in it. But it makes those older than you deeply uncomfortable, and many simply refuse to see it. That puts a lot of responsibility on you.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 23, 2013![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
The Knives of Class Warfare Turn Towards Tech’s Plutocrats
I have lots of quibbles with Joel Kotkin's recent essay published at the Daily Beast and already echoing elsewhere. He gets numerous facts wrong, and some of his assumptions are silly. But anyone in tech better pay close attention to his thorough summing-up of the numerous ways that tech's billionaires and their often-wealthy allies increasingly aim to influence social policy at a time when more and more Americans (and others in the developed-world middle class around the world) find middle-class life out of reach, and poverty grows among the less educated.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 20, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_12633268-300x201.jpg)
UN Crowdsources Targets for Global Development
When even the UN starts appealing to the global crowd for direction and buy-in you know the tools of communication and leadership have really begun to change. This essay in The Guardian by a UN assistant secretary-general explains the many ways in which the organization is asking how to meet its so-called Millenium Development Goals. It includes the amazing statistic that there are now more mobile phones in the world than toilets. That's why it is using SMS and other mobile querying methods alongside web surveys and in-person meetings in places like the Amazon.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 7, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_112987639-300x200.jpg)
Why an Internet of Everything Event? “It’s the World Waking Up”
What inefficiencies frustrate you in your day-to-day life? What could work better about your home and the things that surround you—your car, your commute, your job, your health care, your aging parent's physical situation, or your local government? Entrepreneurs and innovators are beginning determinedly to address those problems. How can I be so confident? Because of the macro trend that some, including we at Techonomy, call the "Internet of Everything" (IoE for shorthand). We see it as a big deal worth devoting a half day to, along with a superb group of speakers, at our Techonomy Lab: Man, Machines, and the Network on May 16.
By David Kirkpatrick
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Why Zuckerberg Wants Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Washington appears best suited to screwing up good ideas, even when more or less everyone there agrees it's a good idea. Fiscal Times here examines the politics and details surrounding tech-oriented immigration reform, including increasing H-1B visas, letting immigrant PhDs in STEM subjects stay in the U.S., and exempting entrepreneurs who are creating jobs from deportation. Because these are such logical reforms, they can't be passed individually but must become part of a comprehensive package, because Congress typically weighs down no-brainer bills with stupid amendments. Thus, Zuckerberg's new pro-immigration lobbying group FWD.us wisely supports a comprehensive bill, though it's hard to achieve.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 29, 2013![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Does Facebook Want to Make Us Closer or More Separate?
A thoughtful article at Wired.com by Evan Selinger asks the right questions about the TV ads for the new Facebook Home app for Android phones. How appropriate is the kind of self-absorbed distraction that the ads depict users of the software indulging in? Should we celebrate people who tune out those around them, opting instead for entertainment provided by their friends? While one ad shows a guy on a plane being greeted by a young relative, another depicts a young woman at a family dinner completely ignoring her relatives as she enjoys her friends' snowball fight, a ballet performance, and a loud drummer.
By David Kirkpatrick
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It May Be Easier to Start Businesses Than You Think
My friend Loic Le Meur writes an ebullient explanation for LinkedIn of the many ways you can advance a business without agonizing over it. His main message is not to agonize, but rather just do it. Company ideas come when you least expect them; the best ideas don't flow from workaholism; mistakes are part of the package; starting before you're ready is routine; and focusing on how much money you'll make is counterproductive.
By David Kirkpatrick
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Why Zuckerberg Beamed as He Announced Facebook Home for Android
I've never seen Mark Zuckerberg beaming throughout an entire press announcement, as he did today at the launch of the new Facebook phone software. It shows that he believes the so-called "Facebook Home" for Android means Facebook has nailed an important piece in its evolution toward becoming central to the communications systems for all the people of the planet. That is, after all, his goal, as it has been since roughly late 2004. You can tell he has confidence that Facebook has made good decisions about what we need in a new interface for interacting with phones, and that he's certain of the quality of the engineering and design thinking behind the product.
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 4, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/iStock_000019471697XSmall-300x199.jpg)
Social Media’s New Role as a Tool for War
We know the world is awash with new connections and that social media is transforming our social and political landscape. But did you ever think that the CIA may have ways to use social, Skype, and email accounts of officers of unfriendly governments to deliver personal messages and attempt both to track and influence them? This Daily Beast article by Eli Lake explains how the scramble to prevent Syria from using chemical weapons has led to some cutting-edge techniques for intelligence and influence.
By David Kirkpatrick
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Here Comes the Techonomy Conference
This weekend at Techonomy 2012, we gather near Tucson to try to make sense of the explosion of data, the empowerment of the planet by mobile devices, how companies and governments must reorganize themselves, the insurgent influence of robots, and the growing global power of a few key American Internet companies. And that's just all I could fit into the first sentence.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 9, 2012![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Techonomy Needs Your Input: What Makes a Company Techonomic?
As our annual conference approaches in Tucson, Techonomy Media seeks to broaden its scope and impact. We want to further highlight the opportunities and challenges for business in a world being transformed by technology. We need your help as we crowdsource an important brainstorming exercise. We want to figure out more exactly what characteristics make a company tech-savvy, forward-looking, and resilient. We see every industry's dynamics being turned upside down by the Internet, by empowered consumers, by data, and by entrepreneurial insurgents. We say every company ought to be a technology company, and like to talk about "techonomic" companies, but what exactly do you think that means? What is a techonomic company?
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 9, 2012![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Will We Finally Get Serious About Climate Change?
To those of us who believe in science, which includes the rest of the world and apparently no more than half of Americans, it has been painful in recent years to see continued bizarre and destructive weather, even as data clearly suggested climate change is at least partly responsible. Now in the wake of Hurricane Sandy's devastation, experts like Eric Pooley of the Environmental Defense Fund are clearly articulating yet again why we must act. This will be hard politically, because reasonable action will by necessity be global, not just national. We're not too good at that here. Not to mention that many Americans, including powerful politicians, still willfully disregard reality and the likely costs of inaction. This essay by Pooley from The New Republic eloquently underscores the basics. Business Week's cover story entitled It's Global Warming, Stupid! also is a must-read. (Pooley, a great supporter of Techonomy, was my editor at Fortune.)
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 5, 2012![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Windows May Be Your Father’s Operating System, But What’s an Operating System Anyway?
This friday Microsoft makes several epochal announcements, including a radically redesigned version of Windows that veers sharply from the established, tedious, conventions. Those who love tedious conventions will be annoyed, but those who like cool new stuff—most of us, these days—will likely be, at a minimum, intrigued, and perhaps enthralled. Microsoft should never be counted out. And alongside the new OS—coming in two versions for Intel and ARM chips—will be a new all-Microsoft device called Surface, based on ARM. It of course would love to be an iPad killer. Don't hold your breath for that one, but the signs suggest Surface will be a hit, at least with the vast numbers of corporations that are deeply committed to Microsoft products.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 22, 2012![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
A Gun Made from a 3D Printer? Techno-Challenges Grow More Complex
At Techonomy we believe that just about literally everything is being transformed by technology, especially Internet technology, and we also are quite psyched about 3D printing. It's another example of the empowerment of individuals—in the potent tradition of the PC, Web browser, Facebook, etc. But now guns are beginning to be made with 3D printers. There is likely nothing that can be done to stop that. It underscores another fundamental Techonomy point—that all of us, as citizens, leaders, and human beings—need to be thinking harder about what technology is doing to the world in which we live. Disruption is right.
By David Kirkpatrick
Oct 8, 2012![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
How Web Tools Are Redefining Employment
How work evolves in the age of the Net is a crucial question for every country, not least the U.S. The easily assembled palette of services that is evolving from suppliers like Amazon, Facebook, Salesforce, and many others gives companies and employees a new ability to employ tech quickly for business advantage. Cloud, mobile, social, and analytics can be mixed and matched increasingly by anyone. Joe McKendrick of Forbes has a thoughtful take on some of the implications for employment.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 26, 2012![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
3D Printers Get Cheap, and the Transformation of Manufacturing Gets Closer
MakerBot of Brooklyn released new 3D printers, and it's a breakthrough. One costs only $2,199, but has extraordinary capabilities. MakerBot also announced it is opening a store in Soho. At Techonomy we believe 3D printing is one of those unexpected results of the digital revolution likely to upend industries and recast competition. Those who get it will win, and those who oppose it will lose. Even as 3D printing enters more and more material areas, so it will be used for larger products. We've heard of plans to build airplane wings, even entire buildings, with future (near future) versions of this technology. Wired's new issue puts MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis on the cover with the headline "This Machine will Change the World."
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 20, 2012![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Kirkpatrick_Why-Detroit2-300x172.jpg)
Why Techonomy Detroit?
People keep asking, "Why are you doing a Techonomy conference in Detroit?" We're known for our invite-only annual retreat in the desert near Tucson. So why, you may wonder, is our first one-day event in a gritty, depressed, financially-troubled city that seems well past its glory?
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 11, 2012![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
The Detroit News Gets Behind the Techonomy Detroit Idea
Columnist Daniel Howes today explains as only a savvy local can why technology and entrepreneurship may be the best and only hope for Detroit's ravaged economy and jobs landscape. His column is a gratifying response to our months of work preparing the conference that begins tomorrow. We really do believe that in a technologizing time, the opportunities for rapid transformation are gigantic and real. But we also believe that it will not happen automaticallly. The changes that need to happen will require business, government, and civic leaders to actively embrace the opportunities presented by technology's headlong progress. We are here in Detroit because we hope it happens. Tomorrow's conference is our contribution.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 11, 2012![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/techonomy-square-e1701877757914-300x169.png)
The Emerging Age of Techonomic Health: Self-tracking
Measuring ourselves with finer and finer detail is one of the rapidly-developing trends that suggests big changes afoot in how we will conceive of medical diagnosis and treatment. It should lead to more intelligent identification of what leads to various medical conditions, and throw much current medical research into a new light. In effect people will be able to begin to conduct p2p drug effectiveness tests, for one thing. This interesting article by Quentin Hardy in the New York Times touches on some of the implications.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 8, 2012![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kirkpatrick_manifesto1-300x186.jpg)
Why Techonomy?: A Manifesto
We believe in the potential of technology to make the world a happier, healthier, wealthier, and more peaceful place. Techonomy's name embodies our beliefs and our mission—it combines the words "technology" and "economy" because technology has become a central part of the economy in which we operate and the society in which we live. Today technology is inextricably entwined with just about every activity that humans undertake. We embrace that fact, and seek as a company to help the world take advantage of it.
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 27, 2012![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
How to Be an Optimist in a Pessimistic Time
It's no secret that technology is changing the world. Unfortunately, there are a surprising number of people who don't get it. Many of them, even more unfortunately, are important leaders in business, other powerful instutitions, and governments. To meet the challenges that face us—whether as leaders of organizations, as leaders of countries, or as the global community addressing our collective challenge—we will only be successful if we unreservedly embrace technology and innovation as essential tools.
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Larry Irving and Jessica Rosenworcel on Why 30% of Kids Can’t Connect
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Dr. Robert Grossman on the Frontlines of New York’s Covid Crisis
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Linda Boff on the New GE and the Post-Covid World
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Michael Wolff on Understanding Trump and What Happens Next
Understanding the President has never been harder. Every day brings fresh controversy. But Wolff’s analysis of Trump is authoritative and compelling. He spent many months at the White House getting to know everyone and taking thorough notes.
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Silicon Harlem CEO Clayton Banks on the Struggle of Black Tech in New York
What’s it like to be Black in New York Tech? What needs to change? How can the larger tech sector do more to be supportive and partner?
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Dipayan Ghosh on Whether Tech Platforms Are Destructive by Design
How to regulate and rein in internet giants is one of society’s most vexing challenges. Ghosh worked at the Obama White House and Facebook before emerging as a top academic critic, and his new book offers a new set of proposals for what society should do.
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Yennie Solheim on the Social Impact of Blending Physical and Virtual Worlds
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Bill McKibben on How Tech Can Help Climate Crisis
The Earth is relentlessly warming. Where should business, the tech industry, individuals and government most take action? How can tech help?
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Jul 17, 2020Casper Klynge on What Silicon Valley Means to Diplomats
The digital sphere may be dominated by large companies, but we must safeguard democratic values and social institutions, says Denmark’s formal ambassador to Silicon Valley. His works to help industry and governments work together.
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Dec 2, 2019Michael Dunne on Why China Builds the Cars of the Future
Few know the Chinese auto industry like Dunne. At this time of great uncertainty, how will competition on technologized vehicles evolve? Will China dominate autonomy and electrics? How soon will cars drive themselves?
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Nov 25, 2019Konstantinos Karachalios on Turning Tech Towards Humanity
The IEEE, where Karachalios oversees the standards group, is deeply engaged in trying to understand what went wrong with tech and how to make it right. The engineers of the world are the ones who can make that happen.
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Nov 25, 2019Renee James on New Chips to Power the Cloud
Renee James was president of Intel, but now is up against it, in an ambitious new semiconductor startup. What matters is the cloud, and Ampere builds chips to run it.
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Nov 25, 2019Cameron Clayton on How Advanced Tech can Help the World Respond to Extreme Weather
Extreme weather is becoming more intense and dangerous. Now more than ever we must ensure that timely, reliable weather data is available around the world. Technology offers new opportunities to help people and businesses access this data to better prepare for and respond. Meanwhile, improvements in how we manage agriculture can lead to more sustainable […]
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Nov 25, 2019Chip Conley on What Business Needs to Learn from Psychology
After a career in the hospitality industry, most recently at Airbnb, Conley now operates an academy for mid-life wisdom. What has he learned that we should learn?
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Nov 25, 2019Marissa Mayer on Building a New Consumer Internet
Few have had a larger role creating today’s consumer internet. Now with her own incubator Mayer is rethinking email, calendars, and more.
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Nov 25, 2019Jeff Weiner on The Business of Compassionate Leadership
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Nov 25, 2019John Chen on Cyber-security and Understanding China
Chen has long been a top business expert on China even as he’s remade Blackberry and, earlier, Sybase. Now security software is a top priority
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Nov 25, 2019Lila Preston and Ryan Popple on Investing and Entrepreneurship for a Warming Planet
How does our global crisis change how we all must think about our work? What kinds of investments make sense if our goal is to arrest a rapidly warming globe? Investor Preston, a partner with Al Gore, talks with the CEO of an autonomous bus company from her portfolio.
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Nov 25, 2019Fadi Chehadé and Jodi Halpern on How We Create a Civilized, Ethical Internet
How Do We Create a Civilized, Ethical Internet? Longtime entrepreneur Chehadé took over ICANN at a key moment and became a diplomat, extracting it from the U.S. Commerce Department. But what he learned has his hair on edge as the net continues to morph.
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Nov 25, 2019Esther Dyson on Investing in Holistic Health
Esther Dyson invested her own money into 5 mid-sized American cities in an ambitious effort to figure out what ails us and how we can get better.
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Nov 25, 2019John Chambers and Soni Jiandani on Starting Up to Challenge Amazon
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Nov 25, 2019Andrew Keen and David Kirkpatrick on the Future of the Internet and Global Tech Platforms
We’re in a dangerous interrelated global cycle of tech dysfunction, social discord, political polarization, policy failure, and climate catastrophe. Can the world get a grip on tech? How do we reset and restore?
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Nov 25, 2019Partnering for Good
MedShare has delivered over $220 million in medical aid to communities in 103 countries and combined with Phillips’ state of the art biomedical equipment, is improving the quality of biomedical service offerings in underserved communities around the world. The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. David Kirkpatrick: So, […]
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May 21, 2019Tech Tools for Public Servants
With trust in government at an all-time low, the morale of public servants is often overlooked. But they are the largest workforce in the world. Apolitical helps government employees connect to skills, solutions and partners so they can tackle society’s biggest challenges. The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. […]
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May 21, 2019Will Tech Unify or Divide?
Cathy Bessant focuses on what constant technology and industry change means for jobs, the future of banking, and how companies of the future are organized. The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. David Kirkpatrick: Cathy Bessant is about to join me onstage. She is the chief operations and […]
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May 21, 2019Internet of Things: Turning Hype Into Business
Internet of Things was supposed to revolutionize the world years ago, but has largely failed to live up to its hype. How will it succeed in the future? The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. David Kirkpatrick: We’re going to talk about the Internet of Things in this […]
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May 21, 2019Internet & Blockchain: From ‘Don’t be Evil’ to ‘Can’t be Evil’
Steiner was Chief of Security for Ethereum’s launch who had a vision for how related technologies could transform the entire internet. How should we think about crypto and blockchain technology now? The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. David Kirkpatrick: Jutta Steiner, she is the CEO of a […]
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May 21, 2019Jared Cohen, Jigsaw and author, Accidental Presidents
This State Department veteran is now CEO of Alphabet’s Jigsaw business, which works to make the world safer. He also just wrote a book about Vice Presidents who became President. Seeing connections is his job. The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. David Kirkpatrick: Jared, come out here. […]
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May 21, 2019New York Tech and Responsibility in an Age of Data
The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. David Kirkpatrick: … Karin Klein who is a venture capitalist at Bloomberg Beta and somebody who I have known for a long time and is a good friend of Techonomy and a good friend of New York. When we met, you […]
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May 21, 2019Towards More Humane and Accountable Technology
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May 21, 2019Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang
The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. David Kirkpatrick: Okay, we’re going to bring Andrew Yang and Rich up here right away. Andrew Yang, presidential candidate, we’re happy to have you here. [APPLAUSE] Andrew Yang: Thank you all. Kirkpatrick: Somebody gave me this in the men’s room, but […]
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May 21, 2019Democratic Presidential Candidate John Delaney
The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. Rich Benjamin: John, good to meet you. John Delaney: Where’s my hug? Benjamin: All right. David Kirkpatrick: So, John, John, sit down. John Delaney was a congressional congressman in Richard’s State of Maryland for three terms. While he was in Congress […]
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May 21, 2019Public-Private Collaboration Improves New York Tech
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By David Kirkpatrick
May 21, 2019Looking for Humanity in AI
Two designers who work in artificial intelligence discuss the tension between creativity and AI – when is AI enabling and when is it disabling? AI is often thought of as a way to improve productivity but for creatives, productivity also includes time for reflection and serendipity. How do you integrate those intangible human qualities into […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 21, 2019Technologies of Togetherness
Many people think social media drives us apart, but Scott Heiferman–founder of Meetup–remains a software togetherness visionary, who thinks opportunities for tech-based connection remain large. He also has ideas for how the tech industry can do better. The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. David Kirkpatrick: So Scott, […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 20, 2019Cory Johnson on Moving Money Across Borders with Cryptocurrency
Description: Cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based innovation are capturing capital and much enthusiasm. Ripple is the third-largest currency, after only Bitcoin and Ethereum, with a pragmatic and relatively simple purpose. Why did this star journalist put his lot in with Ripple?
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018Could We Finally Get the Healthcare System We Need?
Description: Big new advances in online software systems, AI, IoT, and VR are poised to improve healthcare. Yet fitting all that startup-led innovation into the system means realignment of institutions and roles. How fast can the system change? The below transcript has been lightly edited for readability. Could We Finally Get the Healthcare System We Need? […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018A New Approach to Industrialism
Description: Standard Industries owns and operates, among other things, the world’s largest roofing and waterproofing business that includes GAF in North America and BMI Group in Europe, Asia and Africa. David Millstone and David Winter, co-CEOs, have reoriented these building materials leaders. Now they’re joined by our David to discuss how industrialism can become more […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018Emily Chang on Breaking up the Boys’ Club
Description: In Silicon Valley (and most companies everywhere) decisions are typically made by men. In her best-selling book, Chang outlines the shocking consequences. To build a successful tomorrow, women must be at the table. This transcript has been lightly edited for ease of reading. Breaking up the Boys’ Club (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018Andrew Nash on Identity is the Steam Engine of the Digital Economy
Description: Managing and protecting our data and identity in the digital era gains importance by the day. We have many elements for a better system to manage it in finance, health care, and even marketing and advertising. But the pieces need to come together. Andrew Nash, immersed in identity for years, explains how real progress […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018Sanjay Mehrotra on Memory, Artificial Intelligence, and Modern Computing
Description: Micron is the biggest tech company you may not know. It dominates the business of memory, and is the second largest chipmaker in the U.S. after Intel. Sanjay Mehrotra explains how memory is changing, and why it is indispensable to successful AI and all the other big moves in modern technologized society. The following transcript […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018“Human + Machine” Meets “AI Superpowers”
Description: Artificial intelligence will alter how people, companies, products, and, we hope, governments work. Two of the world’s leading analysts explore this megatrend. Its approach to AI will help determine even a country’s success. But we’ll need a new idea about how people work with machines. The below transcript has been lightly edited for readability. “Human […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018John Chambers on Leadership in a Startup World
Description: John Chambers built Cisco Systems for two decades. It’s now worth $200 billion. Now he is investing his money and his life around his belief in the wholesale digital transformation of the world. His new book is Connecting the Dots: Lessons For Leadership in a Startup World. The following transcript has been lightly edited and […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018Can Facebook Recover?
Description: No company’s influence in modern society is more fraught and unresolved. Facebook faces credible accusations of serious impacts on democracy globally, of privacy of its users, and on digital addiction. The company is trying to do right, but its business model creates resistance. What should it do now? What should society do? The following transcript […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018Town Hall: Tech Transformation and Last Week’s Election
Description: What are we learning last week about where our country is going? What did we learn this afternoon about where tech and the world are going? How do those two match up? The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. Moderators: Rich Benjamin, Author | David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy (Transcription by RA […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018Daniel Dines on Will Software Robots Make Work More Creative?
Description: UiPath’s Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools let software perform repetitive on-screen tasks that otherwise occupy huge time for workers. The company says it is the fastest-growing enterprise software company ever. Daniel Dines believes RPA will enable people to do more creative, more human work. The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018Elizabeth Shuler on Why Workers Need A Place at the Futurism Table
Description: We know that work is changing. But too often companies try to remake work with no input from workers themselves. The most senior woman ever in the American labor movement immersed herself in the technologies of tomorrow and emerged an advocate for change, but also for a deeper, broader, more inclusive dialogue. The below transcript […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018How Insurance Enables Innovation
Description: The world’s largest insurance company has taken a new approach to the innovation ecosystem. It is embedding itself into some of the world’s newest industries, and investing extensively in startups. But in doing so, it is leveraging the unique assets of insurance. The lessons for all companies are real. The following transcript has been […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018Tony Prophet on Why Business Must Embrace Equality
Description: No other major company even has a “chief equality officer.” What does it mean at Salesforce? How can business bring genuine humanity into the workplace? The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. Speaker: Tony Prophet, Salesforce Interviewer: David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: Thank you both, […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018Tim Berners-Lee on
Re-Engineering the Web Around People
Description: When Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, he wanted it open and democratic, so made the source code free. That sure succeeded, but over time problems of privacy, corporate control, and power disparities emerged. Now his new project Solid revives the original vision, re-decentralizing the web. It aims to put users back […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 19, 2018Chris Hughes on Facebook, Tech, and Rethinking Inequality
Session Description: Hughes’ new book is Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn. And he helped start Facebook in his dorm room. The transcript is below, with the PDF available for download here. Facebook, Tech, and Rethinking Inequality (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: Chris Hughes probably doesn’t need a whole lot of introduction, but I […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 14, 2018Figuring Out Facebook’s Future
Session Description: The man who brought the FTC complaint and a veteran media leader who struggles against Facebook’s power. The full transcript is below, with a PDF version accessible here. Figuring Out Facebook’s Future (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: The two people we’re going to have as part of the conversation are real experts. Marc […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 14, 2018![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/d3P_nHO91pQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Chef Eric Ripert on our City, our Food, and our Collective Experience
Session Description: A great chef clears our palate. The full transcript is below and the PDF version is available here. A New York Icon on our City, our Food, and our Collective Experience (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: Eric, please join me on stage. So we’re going to end with something very, very special. Eric […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 14, 2018![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/90PO45-WxF0/mqdefault.jpg)
Bastian Lehmann on The Future of Jobs in a Gig-Centric World, and What It Means for Cities
Session Description: Postmates lets you buy anything from anywhere and have it delivered. The full transcript is available below and a PDF version can be found here. The Future of Jobs in a Gig-Centric World, and What It Means for Cities (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: Bastian Lehmann is the CEO of Postmates, which is […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 14, 2018Novozymes: A Multinational Company with a Strategy Centered on the Global Goals
Session Description: Why do some detergents get clothes clean in cold water? Enzymes produced by Novozymes lead to huge energy savings and carbon reduction. The transcript can be found below, with a PDF version available here. Novozymes: A Multinational Company with a Strategy Centered on the Global Goals (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: Peder Holk […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 14, 2018Jeffrey Sachs on Why the Global Goals are Urgent, and How Tech Can Help
Session Description: The world’s leading development economist on how tech and business must get engaged to create a healthier, more inclusive world. The transcript is below with a PDF version available here. Why the Global Goals are Urgent, and How Tech Can Help (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: It was a useful way to lead […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 14, 2018Andrew Yang on Building a Campaign Around Tech and Basic Income for All
Session Description: What would tech-savvy politics look like? Yang lives it. The full transcript is below, with a PDF version available here. Building a Campaign Around Tech and Basic Income for All (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: I’m going to quickly introduce him, then we’re going to show a little video. Andrew’s a longtime entrepreneur […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 14, 2018Bringing the World Online
Session Description: If we don’t get everyone in the world on the internet, we can’t achieve the U.N. Global Goals. Not to mention, right now it just isn’t fair. The full transcript can be found below, with a PDF available here. Bringing the World Online (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: Now we’re going to not […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 14, 2018![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/jUgKFvyU6Dc/mqdefault.jpg)
Erik Ekudden on Demystifying 5G
Session Description: What is 5G and why should we care? One of its inventors explains. The full transcript is below, while a PDF version is available here. Demystifying 5G (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: So this next thing is a two-part session where I’m going to interview Erik and then he’s going to stay […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 14, 2018Brad Smith on Tech Leadership in an Era of Shared Innovation
Session Description: This tech veteran is rethinking the responsibilities of cloud-service companies, and the industry, when it holds so much data about everything. The full transcript of this session can be downloaded here and also is below: Tech Leadership in an Era of Shared Innovation (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: Brad Smith is the president […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 14, 2018Martin Sorrell on The Global Economy, the Future of Media, and How to Think About Donald Trump
Session Description: An interview with advertising legend Martin Sorrell and Techonomy’s founder David Kirkpatrick. The full transcript can be found below, with a PDF download available here. The Global Economy, the Future of Media, and How to Think About Donald Trump (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Kirkpatrick: So, Martin, I don’t think I will go through […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 14, 2018Reckoning With the New Hegemonists
Session Description: Amazon, Facebook, and Google are a new breed of global giant, with extraordinary social, political, and economic weight, now coming under rapidly growing scrutiny. Silicon Valley has set itself a high bar claiming it improves the world, presuming trust from consumers and regulators. In this climate, can that last? Do tech giants face an existential […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 2017The Internet Under Attack
Session Description: As countries seek extreme advantage in the newly-networked world, many are limiting speech, imposing restrictive rules, and taking control of digital infrastructure. Can the internet remain an engine of global economic growth and free information exchange? What happens to the internet in places like China? The full transcript is also available here as a downloadable PDF. Kirkpatrick: […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 2017What Can Be Done About the Rising Cost of Care?
Session Description: The U.S. spends twice as much on health care as other rich countries, and gets less care for the money. What will it take to make positive change? How can insurers and doctors use predictive data to help patients and reduce costs? Is consumer-friendly, affordable health insurance possible? The full transcript is also available […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 2017Advancing Global Health With Tech
Session Description: Billions of people are getting healthier. But it isn’t enough. Far too many people globally still die from preventable causes, and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 aim to radically reduce that. What role is tech playing in health progress? How can we continue to advance toward the SDG health goals? The full […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 2017Can We Handle the Coming Convergence of Man and Machine?
Session Description: It seems like computers are starting to merge with our minds, bodies, and maybe even our souls. What new society emerges? What strange, semi-automated netherworld are we hurtling towards? The full transcript is also available here as a downloadable PDF. Kirkpatrick: Let me quickly introduce you to our four panelists here. From the far end, Benjamin […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 2017Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini on Healthcare & Capitalism
A conversation with Mark Bertolini of Aetna and David Kirkpatrick. The full transcript is also available as a PDF and can be downloaded here. Kirkpatrick: This is one of the most thoughtful CEOs in the world of a large company. Mark is CEO of Aetna, which is, you know, a giant health insurer plus and […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 2017IBM’s John Kelly on AI, Cognitive Computing & Security
A conversation with Dr. John Kelly of IBM and David Kirkpatrick at Techonomy 2017.The full transcript is also available here as a downloadable PDF. David Kirkpatrick: John is basically Ginni Rometty’s number two at IBM. He runs IBM Research. He’s been at IBM since 1980. He’s still going strong. He’s responsible for cognitive computing at IBM, which […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 2017Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost on the Obligation of Business
David Kirkpatrick and Andrew Anagnost of Autodesk in conversation at Techonomy 2017. The full transcript is also available as a PDF and is accessible here. Kirkpatrick: And this is the end of the day now, but don’t leave because Andrew Anagnost is the quite amazing, new CEO of Autodesk. And I’ve just been so interested […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 2017Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam on 5G & Digital Inclusion
A conversation with Lowell McAdam from Verizon and David Kirkpatrick. The full transcript is also available as a PDF and can be downloaded here. David Kirkpatrick: Lowell McAdam is CEO of Verizon, which he has been doing for about six years. He’s been at the company’s constituent entities for decades. Exactly how to quantify it, […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 2017A Conversation with Cisco’s John Chambers
A conversation between David Kirkpatrick and John Chambers of Cisco. Below is an excerpt from their conversation. The full transcript is also available here as a downloadable PDF. Kirkpatrick: I want to just immediately bring out somebody who I have tremendous respect for and who is a legend of global business and American business, John Chambers. So […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 2017A Conversation With Beth Comstock and Penny Pritzker
A conversation with Penny Pritzker and Beth Comstock, moderated by David Kirkpatrick. The full transcript is also available here as a downloadable PDF. Kirkpatrick: Next, we have two of the great leaders of American business, one of them with very recent government experience as well. We’re going to have a conversation about what’s happening with a lot […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 2017The Digital, Social Fight Against Terrorism
Session Description: Terrorists like ISIS use social media and the internet as adeptly and freely as the most good-hearted soul. The consequences have been dire. But now advanced thinkers in digital and social media strategy are going military and the military is going online. How can digital social tools help undermine the appeal and impact of […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 31, 2017New York IS Tech
Session Description: Massive global corporations and capital-rich startups have turned New York’s tech ecosystem into a center for entrepreneurship and innovation. What makes tech different here?
By David Kirkpatrick
May 31, 2017Tech in an Age of Insecurity: Robots, Climate, etc.
Session Description: Could our technologized, hyper-democratized life actually be getting worse? Can tech get us out of this mess? How can tech help society tackle its challenges? Below is an excerpt of the Tech in an Age of Insecurity panel. The full transcript can be accessed here. David Kirkpatrick: Let’s bring the next panel right up […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2017John Martin of Turner Broadcasting
Interview between David Kirkpatrick and John Martin, Chairman and CEO, Turner An excerpt of the conversation with David Kirkpatrick and John Martin can be found below, but the full transcript can be downloaded here. Kirkpatrick: Here we have John Martin, CEO of Turner, which is really taking some radically new ways of thinking about what a […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2017Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson at TE NYC17
An interview between David Kirkpatrick and Fred Wilson, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures. Below is an excerpt from their conversation. You can download the full transcript here. Kirkpatrick: Let me quickly introduce Fred. Fred is the most eminent venture capitalist in New York and I was thinking about Fred’s work and his role in […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2017A Conversation with Dr. Dean Ornish
A conversation between Dr. Dean Ornish of Preventive Medicine Research Institute and David Kirkpatrick. Below is an excerpt of their interview, but the full transcript is accessible here. David Kirkpatrick: So, this is really great to have you at the end of the day, Dean, and I think that there were a number of […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2017The New Media of Healthcare
Session Description: Just as in every other sphere, we are getting our health information in new ways. What will be our reliable sources? Below is an excerpt of the panel, The New Media of Healthcare. The full transcript can be downloaded here. David Kirkpatrick: So now we’re going to talk about something that’s a little bit different […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2017How Does Technology Transform the Practice of Medicine?
Session Description: A top practitioner talks with a medical technology expert about the many ways doctors’ work will change. Below is an excerpt of the panel, How Does Technology Transform the Practice of Medicine? The full transcript can be found here. David Kirkpatrick: I have with me Brian Donley, who is chief of staff of the […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2017How Do We Redesign Healthcare?
Session Description: The U.S. spends more on health and gets less than any other developed country. But we won’t likely see an “Uber of healthcare” upend America’s dysfunctional system. What role will innovation and tech play in the transformation of American healthcare? Below is an excerpt of the session, but the full transcript can be accessed here. David […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2017Why We Need New Role Models: Humane Behavior Inside Companies
Session Description: Humane thinking about how we feel and relate to each other matters just as much in business as in life. How can leaders help organizations integrate well-being into the search for business performance? Below is an excerpt of the panel at Techonomy Health. The full transcript can be found here for download. David […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2017Robert Andrews on Health Transformation
A conversation between David Kirkpatrick of Techonomy and Robert Andrews of the Health Transformation Alliance.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 26, 2017Esther Dyson: Health not Healthcare
Session Description: Will tech help us stay healthier? How will digital tools assist patients and help the system improve? An excerpt of the Health not Healthcare panel is below, but the full transcript can be accessed here. Kirkpatrick: We’re going to start with a big picture discussion about how technology plays a role, or doesn’t play a role, […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 26, 2017![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/NkvJ6GHZBQQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Smarter, Connected and Intuitive… is this the Future of Digital Healthcare?
Be it analytics, data or devices, tech is changing the healthcare landscape for patients and healthcare professionals alike. But how do we ensure a move towards a more patient centric, integrated and connected system? One with lower costs and better outcomes that extends beyond the walls of our hospitals and into our day today?
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 8, 2016![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/eLowf-mzQHM/mqdefault.jpg)
From the NHS to Early-Stage Pharma Startup
A conversation with Dr. Ross Breckenridge, on the shift from 20 years at the UK's National Health Service to CEO of an early-stage pharma startup.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 7, 2016![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/ZmlmFwEjEAo/mqdefault.jpg)
The Evolving Internet of Health Things
Personalized, digitized healthcare is evolving at warp speed. We not gather health data from not just wearables, but implantables and ingestibles. New tools and technology will interact with ambient devices to assess and even diagnose us. What is the nature of this evolving ecosystem surrounding the person? Does it have limits?
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 6, 2016![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/w9sz7eW6MY8/mqdefault.jpg)
The Evolution Revolution: Kurzweil in Debate
Futurist Ray Kurzweil, UCSD’s Benjamin H. Bratton and neuroscientist entrepreneur Vivienne Ming discuss where AI, biology and machines that learn by themselves are taking us.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 2, 2016![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/tipuqYz9F00/mqdefault.jpg)
In Conversation With Dr. Eric Topol
Dr. Eric Topol visits with David Kirkpatrick at the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay during Techonomy Health.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 1, 2016Internet Giants and The World
An unprecedented new kind of company is gaining a new breadth of influence. Facebook has data on two billion and its algorithms guide what those people see. Google's impact is similarly vast. And companies in all sorts of industries entrust their most precious systems and data to Amazon's AWS. Commerce, communication, and to a good extent our economy now depends on these companies. We trust them, more or less, but as they command so much data, many wonder about oversight. The EU is already seeking restrictions on how a person's data can be used. How should society best balance this great power against the public welfare?
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 17, 2016In Conversation With Padmasree Warrior
A Conversation with Padmasree Warrior, CEO at NextEV USA.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 17, 2016Is Combating Climate Change IoT’s Killer App?
Monitoring, metering, measuring, and controlling the world with the Internet of Things may mark a tipping point in combating climate change. Sensors monitor fugitive emissions of methane and other pollutants, smart grids help manage energy demand, and connected electric vehicles not only mean less-polluting transportation, but can double as energy storage on demand – facilitating a faster switch to variable renewable energy sources like wind and solar.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 17, 2016Why the US Government needs an IoT Strategy
The economic potential of IoT is unquestionable. But what priorities, policies, and implementation structures are required? Why does the US only have “recommendations” while the UK has a national IoT strategy and other countries are making it a priority? What are the implications for national competitiveness and business?
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 17, 2016Jeroen Tas and Bernard J. Tyson
David Kirkpatrack chats with Jeroen Tas and Bernard J. Tyson.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 17, 2016In Conversation With Mark Zuckerberg
A conversation with Founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 17, 2016By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 17, 2016The United States of Data I: The Economic Impact of Data Convergence
Two different kinds of data are converging—increasingly comprehensive and granular data about people; and vast, data sets about how industry and the economy are functioning. How will these two kinds of knowledge come together to change companies and society?
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 17, 2016In Conversation With William Ruh
A conversation with William Ruh; CEO at GE Digital, and Chief Digital Officer at GE.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 17, 2016What Digital Society and Government Looks Like
A conversation with Marina Kaljurand, former Ambassador to the United States of America; Republic of Estonia.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 17, 2016We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: People, Power and Politics After the Tornado
Join business and government leaders as they analyze and evaluate the political revolution of 2016 and predict its implications for the future of the United States and the world.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 16, 2016Privacy, Trust and The Future of Digital Relationships
How does culture alter our technology? Two trained anthropologists–one an eminent and longtime student of tech-influenced social systems, the other a senior business journalist–discuss the social, economic and political biases we bake into our systems. How may that affect how people behave? If we’re moving to a world of sensors, analytics, and a consequently altered society, will it be a fair one?
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2016Media and Exactitude in a Software-Infused World
Ad spending is finally moving where the eyeballs and ears actually are. What does it mean when media makers really know who’s watching? Are we entering a golden age of targeting? How does it change how products are created and marketed?
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2016Makers and Takers: The Financialization of America
David Kirkpatrick interviews Rana Foroohar, author of Makers and Takers: The Financialization of America, alongside legendary venture capitalist Alan Patricof to talk about how the American finance industry has grown and changed in the past several decades, and why right now is an exciting moment for American entrepreneurs.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2016Arun Sundararajan: Crowd-based Capitalism, Economic Growth and the Future of Work
NYU professor Arun Sundararajan’s new book The Sharing Economy tackles how shared assets will change the way we live and work in the future. He sits down with Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick to talk about how a new type of economy will change the way we measure growth and success.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2016Digital Transformation, IoT and the Future
From the sewers below our cities to the roads and buildings above, the depth of the ocean to outer space, be it our genome or our micro-biome– how much will the Internet of Things and digital transformation change our lives?
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2016Bill Ruh on Digital Transformation, IoT and the Future
Session Description Bill Ruh, CEO of GE Digitial, talks to Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick about the future of data analytics and connected machines. Ruh makes the argument that the market winners of the future will be companies that can make their assets as productive as possible. Kirkpatrick: The theme of our conference, and in fact […]
By David Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2016![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/KtGBCYCi5a0/mqdefault.jpg)
Human Values for a Technologized Age
Session Description: How do we think about technology differently as the world continues to be blighted by suffering, hatred and grotesque inequality? And what of privacy, distraction, and overweening corporate and government power? How can tech reaffirm fundamental human values? Does the tech industry and innovation community need a clearer focus?
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 25, 2015![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/xy5u50vboUc/mqdefault.jpg)
A Conversation with Sean Parker
Medicine, Economic Policy, Activism, and the Future: A Conversation with Sean Parker
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 25, 2015![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/VwDoZi3YVKw/mqdefault.jpg)
Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg on the Next Phase in Wireless–5G
Even though only a small portion of smartphone users in a few countries so far have 4G, Ericsson, one of the telecoms industry’s leading tech providers, is already deep into planning the next phase. These
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 2015![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/TwUVJR9Iq7g/mqdefault.jpg)
Salesforce’s Benioff & Bosworth
Customer Connection is the Heart of the Internet of Things The CEO of Salesforce joins one of the company’s top engineers (himself an industry legend) to discuss why serving customers well will increasingly involve a deep integration with the Internet of Things. As the world gets more connected, and all its parts communicate with one […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 12, 2015![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/iX9IYyClRO0/mqdefault.jpg)
John Chen & Bernard Tyson
Optimus Prime: The CEO As Transformer: CEOs today must lead creatively, have as much EQ as IQ and thrive in a frenzied, revolutionary atmosphere. Everything about rapid change is anathema to traditional best practices. Today, the CEO as transformer, feeding on flux and relishing disruption, is what companies need to survive and thrive. (for the […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 12, 2015Hunger, Health and the Future of Food
Session Description: Feeding the world is, according to some, well within our grasp. Vast new indoor farms are being built around the world. Some say it will allow us to “program plants.” And genetic alteration of food sources opens other new horizons. For now, distribution remains the biggest challenge–how will we get the food where […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 12, 2015Change Is a Corporate Asset
Session Description: An epidemic of “creative destruction” sparked by innovators and entrepreneurs is forcing corporate leaders and even the most eminent companies to be both visionary and courageous. Can corporate management change fast enough to meet new-age customer and stakeholder demands
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 12, 2015The Digital Economy
Session Description: The economy IS digital. It’s not coming soon; it’s now. What does that mean, for businesses, individuals and governments? And how can we work together to make sure the benefits, which are legion, have the widest, most substantive impact possible? Kirkpatrick: John, James made a very, I think, quite compelling presentation about […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 12, 2015DARPA’s Arati Prabhakar
Brainworks I: Man and Machine What are the implications for humanity as neuro-tech improves, artificial intelligence becomes less “artificial” and the symbiosis between humans and our machines increases? What is DARPA doing? Kirkpatrick: Arati is the director of DARPA, and someone who’s been in and out of government and the private sector for a […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 12, 2015Facebook’s Adam Mosseri
Algorithms and Values at Facebook The information that over 1.5 billion people see every day is determined by the algorithms embedded in Facebook’s news feed. How do those algorithms work and what values do they embody? Adam Mosseri oversees the news feed. Kirkpatrick: Adam Mosseri’s been running the Facebook newsfeed for two years, and […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 12, 2015Making Detroit a Movement
Making Detroit a Movement: The Power of Narrative Session Description: Our closing session kicks off with a presentation by John Hagel III, Co-Chairman, Center for the Edge, on What Business Can Learn from Social Movements, leading into a discussion about the future of Detroit, with its legacy of innovation and diversity. How can Detroit become […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 20, 2015Aetna’s Mark Bertolini on Creating the Next Generation of Capitalism and an Uber for Healthcare
Aetna Chairman and CEO Mark Bertolini’s Big Ambitions Kirkpatrick: Mark Bertolini is one of the greatest CEOs on the planet and Aetna, which is the company he leads, was a big important company long before he got there but he has really done an extraordinary set of things to refocus it and to reorient his […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 20, 2015A Conversation with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan
Kirkpatrick: I’m just going to go right into it—you came from the medical industry. You know, you had a long history, a really big job running hospitals and hospital systems. And you were telling me the other day that one of the things you did when you were running the hospitals here was you put in […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 20, 2015Autodesk’s Carl Bass on Craftsmanship, Work & the Future of Business
Craftsmanship, Work & the Future of Business What a personal touch means for products, our economy and the ecosystem of cities. Kirkpatrick: Carl is CEO of Autodesk, and this is a company that really is taking some very creative moves in terms of rethinking what the future of society ought to be and the role […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 20, 2015Can We Hack Our Way to the Cities We Need?
The digital economy and tech are transforming America’s cities as much as its companies. There are apps and hacks for every problem. But the resulting civic benefits are incomplete. Can we create enough jobs? Is access getting fairer? Health care improving? Transit? What more can companies, cities and citizens do to inclusively reinvent themselves for this interconnected, technologized […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 20, 2015Booker, Fischer & Parker: Technology, Innovation and American Progress
Session Description: Tech entrepreneur and civic activist Sean Parker joins Senators Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) and Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) to discuss how a technologizing society can allow us to create jobs, foster new companies and industries and drive the economy forward for all. Kirkpatrick: I am so pleased that we have Senator Deb Fischer, Republican, […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 11, 2015Europe’s Digital Mission
Session Description: Can government harness the power of IT to promote innovation, creativity and competition even while also providing tight safeguards for citizens’ digital experience? That’s what the EU aims to do in creating a “digital single market.” Can a mission so broad succeed? How could it affect Europe’s future? And what does it mean […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 11, 2015Case, Cerf & Edelman: Keeping America Innovative
The federal government’s role in spawning the Internet age is unquestioned, but that role is much different today, as government steps back and the pace of business innovation accelerates. Can leaders of tech, business and government collectively work together to insure that conditions for invention and innovation remain strong?
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 11, 2015Juan Enriquez: Evolving Ourselves
Kirkpatrick: Juan Enriquez is a scientist, an explorer, peace negotiator, a philosopher, a serial author of books, not just this new one about evolving ourselves and how we’re really changing the nature of evolution—which is for sale out there, by the way. But, what was the one you did about nation states breaking up? What […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 30, 2015Endy, Glazer, Jurvetson & Waller: You Say You Want a Revolution?
Kirkpatrick: One of the things that’s really sunk in on us in the past few years, and particularly this year as we’ve prepared for this first full-day Techonomy Bio Conference—having done a half day at the same venue last year—is that the idea of being able to program life is getting more and more real. […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Mar 30, 2015A Conversation with Marc Benioff
Kirkpatrick: Marc Benioff is our closing guest, somebody who I’ve known for a fairly long time. Long enough that he didn’t have any hesitation, somewhat like Weiner only more so, yesterday, telling me how I need to conduct the interview. Not asking me how I thought I should—but he did sort of ask me that, but […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2014A Conversation with Jeff Weiner
Kirkpatrick: Jeff Weiner is one of my favorite people in the world, certainly in business leaders that I’ve known in tech, you are one of the most singular that I always enjoy. You’re always pulling my—you were making fun of me backstage and I actually really like that. I apologize— Weiner: I wasn’t really making […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 10, 2014Just Make It: The Evolution of Manufacturing
Kirkpatrick: You know, manufacturing used to be the domain of big companies, but it really isn’t quite that simple anymore. And I love CEOs of big companies who come to the stage with a t-shirt like that and— Bass: I got dressed up to come here, too. Kirkpatrick: You did, really? Bass: I did. Kirkpatrick: What […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 10, 2014From Genius to Table: Organic Innovation
Kirkpatrick: Our next guest pioneered online reputation management as the founder and CEO of Reputation.com. But he’s also widely known as one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific and conspicuous innovators. He was the first CEO to raise his original seed round in actual seeds. He was also the first CEO to offer employer-funded egg freezing […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 10, 2014The Federation: Tactical Evolution or Management Revolution?
Kirkpatrick: We have here the leaders of the three constituent parts of EMC, which is one of the great companies of the technology industry. It’s the first time they’ve ever appeared publicly together and we’re very excited about that. It’s an interesting time to do that because, as we’ll discuss, they have gotten some interesting […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 10, 2014A Conversation with Stripe’s Patrick Collison
Kirkpatrick: Stripe is one of the hot startups in San Francisco right now. It’s doing online payments. Patrick started it with his brother after they got frustrated with trying to build a web site that accepted payments themselves and they realized, “Oh, there’s a problem here.” But now they’re pushing into new areas. They’re working […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 9, 2014Reid Hoffman & Peter Thiel: Future Revolutions
Kirkpatrick: If you want to talk about people who have made transformative change, from whom we can learn, Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel are probably as good examples as you could come up with, regardless of where you looked. As I mentioned before, we were really pleased to give you all Peter’s book, just, the […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 9, 2014Can We Train America to Train Its Workers?
By 2022 the U.S. is projected to need 1.4 million new programmers, but at the current rate only 400,000 IT grads will emerge to fill them. How America tackles this disparity will help determine its ongoing global competitiveness and the economic success of all Americans. Codecademy has developed innovative training tools, and the White House is turning to this issue with great urgency. In this session from our Sept. 16 Techonomy Detroit conference, Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick talks to Brian Forde of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Codecademy CEO Zach Sims about how to close the looming skills gap.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 23, 2014The American Dream: Was It Just a Dream?
The American Dream—that hard work could lead anyone to prosperity, success and upward mobility—feels increasingly irrelevant for a growing and frighteningly large group of Americans. What will people do to attain economic and social security? Will the middle class survive? What new policies and strategies could we devise to help keep the American Dream alive? Carol Goss of Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative, Indiegogo's Danae Ringelmann, Elizabeth Shuler of the AFL-CIO, and Philip Zelikow of the Markle Foundation tackled these and other questions in a discussion moderated by David Kirkpatrick.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 22, 2014Welcome to Techonomy Detroit
Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick kicks off the Techonomy Detroit 2014 conference, with remarks by Jocelyn Benson of the Wayne State University Law School.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 22, 2014![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/S4NYoXNBWFo/mqdefault.jpg)
Systems of Life Impact Business and Society
Exploration, experimentation, and innovation. All fabulous pursuits in their own rights, but what about real-world application? From food to fuel, what are people doing with all these new bio discoveries? In this video from our June 17 Techonomy Bio conference, David Kirkpatrick moderates a discussion with Stewart Brand of The Long Now Foundation, Jim Flatt of Genovia Bio and Synthetic Genomics, Inc., Steve Levine of Dassault Systèmes, and Floyd Romesberg of The Scripps Research Institute.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 24, 2014![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/CkAj0dso13I/mqdefault.jpg)
A Life in Bio
In this video from our June 17 Techonomy Bio conference, David Kirkpatrick interviews Beth Seidenberg of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers about her involvement in developing biotech companies.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 23, 2014![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/7DMIzX4OS0o/mqdefault.jpg)
Participatory Biology
Just as the Internet leveled the playing field for entrepreneurship, politics, and social engagement, recent advances are leveling it for biological progress. Processing power, the cloud, and Internet connectivity open doors for inquisitive individuals and nascent biotech startups. How are ordinary people involving themselves in biology, and what will be their impact? In this video, David Kirkpatrick moderates a discussion with Eri Gentry of BioCurious and the Institute for the Future, Ryan Bethencourt of Berkeley BioLabs and the XPRIZE Foundation, and David Haussler of UC Santa Cruz and HHMI.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 23, 2014![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/4w-_i0CV41E/mqdefault.jpg)
Welcome to Techonomy Bio
Systems of life are being harnessed for progress much as digital systems have been for the last 50 years. That progress isn’t affecting just health and drug development, it’s revolutionizing food and agriculture, energy, even manufacturing. On Tuesday, June 17, 2014, Techonomy held its first-ever Techonomy Bio event at the computer history museum in Mountain View, Calif. In this video, David Kirkpatrick kicks off the event and introduces the first speaker.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 23, 2014Innovation and the Coming Shape of Social Transformation
As tech- and connectivity-driven change floods across business, social life, government and governing, international relations, jobs, education, health care, and any other human activity you can name, where are we heading? How different is the world we are entering, what must we do to mentally and practically prepare, and what should we resist? Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick, HVF's Max Levchin, and Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media discuss. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 2013Cyber-insecurity and Its Impact on Business
U.S. companies are losing client confidence and trust as news of ongoing surveillance programs and continued security breaches dominate headlines and water-cooler conversations. What can they do, what must they do, to combat customer and public skepticism while strengthening protections and security for users and themselves? Microsoft's Craig Mundie and Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick discuss. Watch video and read the full transcript here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 2013Jim Farley of Ford: The CMO in a Data-Driven Enterprise
Some of the most important data available to companies concerns what customers think. The role of corporate communications is no longer only outward, but as a two-way conduit for opinion and opportunities. Ford’s Jim Farley not only serves as corporate CMO, but also runs the Lincoln division, and is on the front lines of a new way to develop and market products. Watch video and read the full transcript here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 12, 2013A Conversation with Aetna’s Mark Bertolini
Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick talks with Aetna Chairman, President, and CEO Mark Betolini about current and future developments in the healthcare marketplace. Watch the video and read the full transcript here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 12, 2013![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/yQlHXnrJshI/mqdefault.jpg)
What the Dormouse Says Now
If the counterculture of the late 50's and 60's was the progenitor of the PC industry and all it led to, what kind of "culture" is driving the evolution of information technology today? Are those revolutionary ideals still at play, or have those counterculture values grown up and become a complacent establishment? Stewart Brand of the Long Now Foundation, Scanadu's Walter De Brouwer, Ina Fried of AllThingsD, and Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick discuss at Techonomy 2013 in Tucson, Ariz. Watch video and read the full transcript here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2013Keeping the Internet Whole
Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick discusses the structure and regulation of the Internet with Theresa Swinehart of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Watch the video and read the full transcript here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2013A Spin with Tara Lemmey
Tara Lemmey of Net Power & Light demos Spin, a new digital communication platform that lets people "experience emotion at the scale of the Internet." Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2013Business Infinity
Business models and ecosystems are being upended, disruptors emerge from the tiniest and least noticed corner, customers and employees demand new treatment, and the entire landscape becomes ever more global. Todd Bradley of HP, Zachary Karabell of River Twice Research, Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick of Techonomy, and James M. Manyika of McKinsey & Company, discuss challenges and opportunities confronting business and how leaders should adapt. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2013Techonomy Detroit 2013 Welcome
Read the full transcript below. (Transcript by Realtime Transcription.) For more about Techonomy Detroit, including a complete archive of videos and transcripts, click here. Kirkpatrick: Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. Our presentation is about to begin. Thank you. All right. Welcome, everybody. I’m David Kirkpatrick of Techonomy. Keep streaming in. So you know, when you […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 17, 2013Turbo Charging Detroit’s Techonomy
Catherine Kelly of Michigan Citizen News, Scott Moloney of Treat Dreams, and Alex Southern of GrowDetroit join Square CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick for a discussion about how Detroit's economy can thrive in a technologized age. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 17, 2013Michigan Governor Rick Snyder
Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick speaks with Michigan Governor Rick Snyder at the Techonomy Detroit 2013 conference. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 17, 2013Education 2.0 for Americans 2.0
John Wm. Covington of the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan, Marlin Page of Sisters Code, Hector Ruiz of Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions, and Cisco's Tae Yoo join Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick to discuss education in a technologized age. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 17, 2013Keeping the U.S. Competitive in a Hyper-Connected World
Nilmini Rubin, senior advisor for global economic competitiveness to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, joins Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick at Techonomy Detroit to discuss how the U.S. can compete in a networked world. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 17, 2013![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/063PcPImbbI/mqdefault.jpg)
How Facebook Connects You to Everything
It's called the Internet of Everything rather than of "things," because it is increasingly apparent that we are part of an interlaced reality. Whether it's a Fitbit, video memory augmentation, apps that connect our friends to our whereabouts in our car, or a panoply of other kinds of intersections, Facebook is central. It is the main connection mechanism for people. In this session from the May 15 Techonomy Lab: Man, Machines, and the Network in Menlo Park, Calif., Facebook's head of mobile, Cory Ondrejka, talks with Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick how the company sees its role.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 16, 2013![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/4mOQsxUoZbY/mqdefault.jpg)
Your Life Is in the Internet of Everything
Gordon Bell is one of the great men of technology. Not only has he invented or participated in much of the Net's evolution, but now, as a top Microsoft researcher, he has passionately embraced the effort to track himself with tech, augment his memory with images, and integrate himself into the network. Joining Bell in this discussion from Techonomy Lab: Man, Machines, and the Internet, held on May 16 in Menlo Park, Calif., is Geoff Hollingworth of Ericsson, a radical thinker and exponent of the significance of the coming world of interconnection. Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick moderates the discussion.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 16, 2013![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/cYpslu2TMAY/mqdefault.jpg)
Internet + Everything = ?
As connectivity and intelligence spreads everywhere, a new set of interrelationships emerges between machines, people, processes, and the network. What does that mean for society? The biggest companies are rethinking business in the face of explosive change. In this video from our May 16 Techonomy Lab: Man, Machines, and the Network in Menlo Park, Calif., Rob Chandhok of Qualcomm Internet Services, Cisco's Dave Evans, Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick, Paul Rogers of GE Global Software, and Ford's Vijay Sankaran discuss the implications of the nascent Internet of Everything for business and society.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 16, 2013Sam Lessin & David Fischer: The Facebook Effect, Continued
One company has captivated the world’s attention in 2012, for better or ill. With all the attention on its stock, many lose sight of the central role Facebook plays in social and economic life worldwide. Its progress is often critiqued by Americans, but what matters more for the company is how it does in countries like Brazil, South Africa, and Indonesia, where its dominance is even greater. David Fischer and Sam W. Lessin of Facebook talk with Techonomy's David Kirkpatrick about their company's vision and plans in this final session of the Techonomy 2012 conference in Tucson, Ariz.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 2012Gordon Bell: The Uploaded Life
Gordon Bell, principal researcher at the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Laboratory, talks with Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick at Techonomy 2012 about his work on "lifelogging."
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 2012EMC’s Joe Tucci
Joseph Tucci, Chairman and CEO of EMC, talks with Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick at Techonomy 2012 in Tucson, Ariz.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 12, 2012A Glimpse at the Next Generation
Two young brothers, accomplished beyond their years, explain themselves. One graduated from Stanford at 19 and now, at 21, works as a Silicon Valley VC. Another dropped out of Harvard as a junior at 17 (with help from Peter Thiel), and joined a startup. In the meantime they created a growing nonprofit. And what about those biofuel patents? David Kirkpatrick speaks with Sheel Tyle, Associate at NEA, and Sujay Tyle, Vice President of Business Development at Scopely, at Techonomy 2012 in Tucson, Ariz.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 12, 2012Richard Thompson in Conversation and Performance
Noted for his “guitar technique and strange, darkly-funny lyrics,” as Wikipedia puts it, Richard Thompson has received a lifetime achievement award from BBC and the Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth. Here he performs and talks about his craft with Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick at the Techonomy 2012 conference in Tucson, Ariz.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2012The End of Offline
Our lives are increasingly, constantly intertwined with the network. As our connected world evolves, a new online ecosystem emerges, enabling new levels of awareness, insight, and action. What will a world of 7 billion connected people look like? More united or divided? What happens to the shape of our companies, countries and communities? Techonomy 2012 tackled these questions in its opening session, "The End of Offline," featuring Harvard's Susan Athey, Douglas L. Gilstrap of Ericsson, Robert D. Hormats of the U.S. Department of State, and David Sze of Greylock Partners. The discussion was moderated by Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2012Humanity Enhanced: A Conversation with Ray Kurzweil
Author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil talks with Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick at the Techonomy 2012 conference in Tucson, Ariz.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2012Let’s Get Started! Kirkpatrick TE12 Introduction
David Kirkpatrick welcomes Techonomists to the 2012 conference.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2012Steve Case & Josh Linkner: Entrepreneurship and American Relevance
Steve Case, CEO of Revolution LLC and Josh Linkner of Detroit Venture Partners talk to Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick about the critical role of entrepreneurship in America, especially in cities like Detroit. Read excerpts from the discussion below, or download the full transcript. Case: I appreciate the fact that Techonomy is shining a spotlight on […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 12, 2012![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/DRUuG7KKsog/mqdefault.jpg)
A Look at Detroit 2012
We went to Detroit because in a lot of ways, it symbolizes the challenges faced by the United States which we think technology can really help with. We made a one-day instead of two-day event. We invited anyone who wanted to come. And we allowed a lot of students and others to come. We really aimed to have a broad impact on the thinking in Detroit and in the United States about how technology is going to affect economic growth and jobs.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 12, 201221st Century Skills: What Do We Need? How Do We Get There?
Guy Halfteck, founder and CEO of Knack, a company that produces games designed to measure players’ professional aptitudes, speaks with Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick about helping people identify job skills in a digital age. Read excerpts from the conversation below, or download the full transcript. Halfteck: How do we go about discovering, nurturing, and developing […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 12, 2012Jack Dorsey on Twitter, Square, and the City as Inspiration
Jack Dorsey, Chairman of Twitter and CEO of Square, joins David Kirkpatrick of Techonomy and Dan Gilbert, Chairman of Rock Ventures and Quicken Loans and majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, for the final session of Techonomy Detroit. Below is an excerpt from the discussion. For a full transcript, click here. Dorsey: My parents grew […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 12, 2012Dan Gilbert: Entrepreneurship and Detroit’s Emerging Tech Hub
Dan Gilbert, Chairman of Rock Ventures and Quicken Loans and majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, speaks with Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick about how Detroit can make a comeback. Read excerpts from the conversation below, or download the full transcript. Kirkpatrick: You said Quicken Loans is a technology company that just happens to do loans. It’s […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 12, 2012What Comes After the Revolution?
Read excerpts from the discussion below. BREYER: Using the social technologies that have been developed over the last six-plus years has empowered not only citizens, but workers who need to get retrained who don’t necessarily have the ability to go to a physical campus. We’re just scratching the surface. The Stanfords, the Harvards, the MITs, […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 15, 2011From Business Empire to Individual Empowerment
As individuals assert more power in the marketplace, companies are being forced to re-imagine their traditional top-down philosophies. Those that can change and evolve to take advantage of this new ecosystem will thrive; those that can’t (or simply won’t) may not know what’s about to hit them. Read excerpts from the discussion below. KIRKPATRICK: I’ve argued […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 15, 2011Make Everything Interactive
A conversation with Mike Lynch of Autonomy. Read a summary of the discussion below. The whole IT industry is built on concept of the database, but the reality is that as humans we don’t use that stuff. We use human information–text, social media, video, audio. Now computers are able to understand that and extract meaning […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 2011Entertainment and Technology
An interview with DreamWorks Animation SKG co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. Read excerpts from the discussion below. KIRKPATRICK: It costs up to $180 million to make an animated film, and three-and-a-half years of planning and execution to produce. It takes half a billion digital files, requires 50 to 60 million hours of rendering. Is DreamWorks a […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 2011Every Company Is a Software Company
Companies, regardless of industry, are transforming themselves with technology. Successful techonomic businesses must learn to continuously transform their nervous systems with software. Read excerpts from the conversation below. ZANCA: At FedEx, technology is embedded in our customer experience and permeates everything we do. Every company’s board of directors has an audit committee, a comp committee and […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 2011The Brain and the Data: How Accurately Can We Predict?
Read excerpts from the conversation below. KIRKPATRICK: What do you mean when you talk about a new model of information technology? RANADIVÉ: The old model is based on storing information into a database, trying to build the mother of all databases, and then having to find that information after the fact. The new model will […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 201121st Century Individuals vs. 20th Century Organizations
Read excerpts from the discussion below. KIRKPATRICK: How do you look at the impact of systems like Twitter or Facebook on large organizations? DORSEY: Quite simply there are now amazing feedback loops. When I release a new product or a new ad campaign or a new policy or law, I can get instant feedback on what […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 2011Techonomy Opening
Read a transcript of the Techonomy Opening below. We think there’s a hole in the dialogue about progress. The role of technology as a tool is underappreciated. We do believe that revolutions are underway. That’s why we call this Revolutions in Progress and we consider ourselves revolutionaries; revolutionaries fighting for a new way of thinking […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 13, 2011Events
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Tech & Digital Innovation for Secure Economic Growth and a Greener Future
Two looming challenges appear overwhelming at this moment for the world and U.S. – a possible recession and climate change. But digitalization of societies and communications networks offers both the prospect of stimulating economic growth and lowered carbon emissions, according to ICT company Huawei. The China-headquartered company is in its own struggle for survival following […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 26, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Various-TE-Events-Template-1920x1080-1-1-300x169.jpg)
Web3: Is it Sustainable?
Is Web3 really the future of the consumer internet? Its two main components–crypto and the metaverse–are each highly controversial, and burdened by considerable hype. Yet they both also promise enormous potential, if utilized wisely. But will they be? This lively discussion between two tech industry experts will ask not only whether Web3 is sustainable as a […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Aug 4, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ryan-Panchadsaram-Techonomy-300x169.jpg)
The Health+Wealth of Our Planet
The Business of Fighting Climate Change Presented by Techonomy and Worth The health and economy of our planet is at a tipping point – today’s situation is profoundly unsustainable. For all our sakes, and for the sake of their own long-term survival, businesses must evolve rapidly. A prosperous future depends on it. This one-day event […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Jun 15, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MG_2919-1-300x200.jpg)
Techonomy Climate at WEF
In this two-part program on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, Techonomy will gather innovators and business leaders who are passionate about climate action and believers in the power of technology to combat global warming and reduce greenhouse gasses.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 16, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/davos-2022-event-1-300x169.jpg)
TUESDAY at WEF: Techonomy Climate
On Tuesday, May 24th, 2:30-4:00pm, we heard from serial entrepreneur Bill Gross of Idealab, who two decades ago turned his primary focus from the internet to the climate crisis.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 6, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_315697223-300x200.jpg)
WEDNESDAY at WEF: Techonomy Climate
Wednesday, May 25th at 8 am we’ll gather at the Wipro pavilion for breakfast and in-depth conversation about climate action with top leaders of global tech and industry.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 5, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CDX-Boston-Core-Promo-final-300x169.jpg)
CDX Accelerate Health + Wellness
This day-long conference held in partnership with KPMG at their Boston Seaport office and conference facility will focus on how tech and digital tools can help improve health and wellness for consumers in a post-pandemic world. Digital technologies and platforms were already transforming healthcare prior to the pandemic, but over the last two years the […]
By David Kirkpatrick
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CDX Accelerate Climate & Sustainability
The CDX Accelerate Climate + Sustainability conference will explore how leading enterprises, institutions, investors, governments, NGOs and start-ups are leveraging technology, open innovation best practices and emerging platforms to disrupt the status quo, help fight climate change and achieve short-and-long-term sustainability goals. No issue is more critical and urgent than climate change and technology and […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Apr 26, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shutterstock_519900724-300x199.jpg)
Digital Transformation and Water: Resilient, Secure and Equitable
Water is not a third-world issue. It affects everyone, everywhere. Action must be taken now to protect this precious and finite resource.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 23, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2022-01-31-at-11.00.44-AM-300x170.jpg)
Media Production in a Post-Pandemic World
Video is the language of the modern internet. So these days, every successful business must be a video production company, among its other capabilities. Watch the session with IBM, Adobe, LucidLink, and WebMD.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 31, 2022![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MG_6059-300x200.jpg)
Techonomy 19
The theme for Techonomy 2019 in Half Moon Bay, California was “Reset and Restore: Governing Tech, Retrieving Ethics, and Acting on Climate.” We are in a unique period when corporate responsibility and big-picture thinking is absolutely essential.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 7, 2020![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20190515_Techonomy-6514-300x200.jpg)
NYC 19
The world is in sad shape, which means, among other challenging realities, that all of us need to ensure our work contributes to larger solutions. Tech changes everything, which we love, but it can’t just be a way to make more money.
By David Kirkpatrick
Feb 11, 2019![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/techonomy-square-e1701877757914-300x169.png)
Techonomy 18
Techonomy 2018 was a probing, wide-ranging conversation about the tech-inflected issues that affect business and our world. This year’s theme was Harnessing Tech for Responsible Growth, and as always we addressed many of the issues facing leaders today.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2018By David Kirkpatrick
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Techonomy 17
“The idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Techonomy 2016. He has subsequently recanted.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 21, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/NewRoleModels-300x236.jpg)
Health 17
Techonomy Health was a wide-ranging, day-long conference on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 for leaders about how healthcare is changing fast. How will tech shape the future of healthcare and extend it beyond medical institutions into all our lives?
By David Kirkpatrick
May 21, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20170517_Techonomy_AutomatedOnDemand-0015-300x200.jpg)
NYC 17
If you want to better understand how companies across the economy are being transformed and how you can leverage new ways of thinking to keep your organization competitive, Techonomy is for you.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 18, 2017![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2016-08-23-at-2.41.22-PM.png.webp)
Health 16
Our first Techonomy Health roundtable is a multidisciplinary dialogue exploring what healthcare can become in a technologized and hyper-connected age.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jul 11, 2016![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Zuckerberg-Techonomy-2016-300x178.jpg)
Techonomy 16
MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
By David Kirkpatrick
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NYC 16
For four years, the impact of tech and increasing interconnection on the economy and urban revival has shaped the agenda for our annual one-day Techonomy Detroit conference.
By David Kirkpatrick
Dec 31, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20150915_Techonomy-6423-300x200.jpg)
Detroit 15
The impact of tech on the American economy, its cities and the transformation of the urban ecosystem shaped the agenda for our fourth annual one-day Techonomy Detroit conference.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 15, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20150325_TechonomyBio-2215-300x200.jpg)
Bio 15
Techonomy Bio is a big-picture exploration of the transformative global social and economic benefits driven by the rapid advances being made in the biological and life sciences.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 3, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20150609_TechonomyPolicy-2029-300x200.jpg)
Policy 15
Techonomy Policy aims to bring a higher level of dialogue to the confluence of technology innovation and government. The need for the tech industry and Washington to better understand, engage and productively work together is crucial to the future of economic progress and social cohesion in our tech-enhanced, digitally-enabled times.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 2, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20151109_Techonomy-1350.jpg-1-300x236.webp)
Techonomy 15
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 1, 2015![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20141109-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_1913-300x200.jpg)
Techonomy 14
This year Techonomy moves to the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, November 9-11, on the cliffs south of San Francisco, near Silicon Valley.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 7, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/techonomy-square-e1701877757914-300x169.png)
Bio 14
The theme for Techonomy 2019 in Half Moon Bay, California was “Reset and Restore: Governing Tech, Retrieving Ethics, and Acting on Climate.” We are in a unique period when corporate responsibility and big-picture thinking is absolutely essential.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 6, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/techonomy-square-e1701877757914-300x169.png)
Detroit 14
On September 16th, Techonomy returns to Detroit for our third annual Techonomy Detroit conference. We will continue the series of conversations we began at our first Techonomy Detroit in 2012 on how technology can boost U.S. economic growth, job creation and urban revival.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 15, 2014![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/techonomy-square-e1701877757914-300x169.png)
Techonomy 13
A new society is coming into being. People around the world are building it using the rapidly-evolving tools of technology.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/techonomy-square-e1701877757914-300x169.png)
Detroit 13
On September 17th, Techonomy returns to Detroit and Wayne State University to continue a series of conversations and workshops we began last year at our first Detroit conference.
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 16, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/techonomy-square-e1701877757914-300x169.png)
LAB: IOE 13
The Internet of Everything. Machine-to-Machine. The Internet of Things. The Industrial Internet. A new language is emerging to describe a fundamental shift in the tech landscape.
By David Kirkpatrick
May 16, 2013![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/techonomy-square-e1701877757914-300x169.png)
Techonomy 12
Techonomy focuses on how the exponential pace of technology progress makes possible a new world. A wave of accelerating change driven by technology’s advance is washing over our lives, bringing great potential for business and social progress.
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2012![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/techonomy-square-e1701877757914-300x169.png)
Detroit 12
Techonomy Detroit, hosted by the Detroit Economic Club, is a one-day multidisciplinary gathering of national and local leaders about reigniting U.S. competitiveness and economic growth, creating jobs, and revitalizing cities in a technologized age. It brings together executives and thought leaders from technology, business, manufacturing, government and design. TE Detroit aims to help sharpen the […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Sep 13, 2012![video placeholder](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/video-placeholder-w.jpg)
Techonomy 11
Techonomy is about the centrality of technology to business and social progress and the urgency of embracing the rapid pace of change brought by technology. Every major issue going forward will be affected by how it intersects with tech innovation. We believe that only those leaders who keep this conviction at the forefront of their […]
By David Kirkpatrick
Nov 11, 2011![](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MG_6059-300x200.jpg)
Techonomy 19 – Speakers & Participants
The theme for Techonomy 2019 in Half Moon Bay, California was “Reset and Restore: Governing Tech, Retrieving Ethics, and Acting on Climate.” We are in a unique period when corporate responsibility and big-picture thinking is absolutely essential.
By David Kirkpatrick
Jan 7, 2010![newsletter icon](https://s45834.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/newsletter-icon.png)
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