Amy Webb
Amy Webb's upcoming book is The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology. She is the author of several other best-selling books about the future, including The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity and The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream. She is a quantitative futurist, CEO of the Future Today Institute, and professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business.
Welcome to the (Synthetic) Meatspace
Reactor-grown nuggets, human-edited genetic code, and new mRNA technologies could change our relationship to life itself.
The Xenobot Future Is Coming—Start Planning Now
We're on the cusp of being able to program biological systems like we program computers. That raises some thorny questions.
What Digital Doping Means for Esports—and Everything Else
If an elite cyclist can use performance-enhancing algorithms to cheat at a virtual race, who's to say a doctor couldn't cheat on a remote exam?
The Pentagon Needs to Woo AI Experts Away From Big Tech
Opinion: Without more DOD investment, there just aren’t enough incentives to lure talent away from high-paying jobs with great benefits into a life of public service.
We Need a Plan to Stop Polluting Space Before It’s Too Late
Opinion: Before we start colonizing other planets, we have to deal with all the junk we've hurtled into the atmosphere.
Crispr Makes It Clear: The US Needs a Biology Strategy, and Fast
Opinion: Crispr and other gene-editing technologies may affect the future of all life on the planet. The government isn't prepared.
The 'Uber for X' Fad Will Pass Because Only Uber Is Uber
It's Uber for haircuts! It's Uber for ice cream! The rash of startups claiming to mimic Uber but for other goods and service don't really get what Uber is.