Episode description
“Innovation brings promise or peril.”
That’s one of the standout lines in the book "Industries of the Future" by today’s guest, Alec Ross. Alec’s experience as an entrepreneur, investor, political advisor, and educator, has given him a unique perspective on the relationship between business, government, and the people that make up these groups.
Alec’s success in building a startup in the South Side of Chicago led him to be appointed to Former President Obama’s 2008 Election Campaign as the Convener of Technology and Media Policy and he also became the Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State.
Since then, he’s invested and built a portfolio of dozens of successful businesses, becoming a distinguished fellow at educational institutes like John Hopkins, Columbia University, and University of Bologna.
He’s the author of two books, the New York Time’s Best Selling Industries of the Future, and the newly released "The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People and the Fight for our Future."
In a time where the power of technology is used to divide or unite, empower or replace, and continues to change rapidly, Alec’s insight into the relationship between technology, people, and the bodies that use tech is absolutely critical.
This is an episode you definitely want to listen to more than once so with that...let’s bring it in!