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A crash course in the future of technology
A crash course in the future of technology
By Vivek Wadhwa
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This book is well worth reading to to understand what rapidly advancing technologies are making possible.
This book is well worth reading to to understand what rapidly advancing technologies are making possible.
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AI's advances are both amazing and incredibly scary. Just as we electrified appliances, we're now making every data-capturing technology intelligent,…
AI's advances are both amazing and incredibly scary. Just as we electrified appliances, we're now making every data-capturing technology intelligent,…
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Thank you, Adam Draper. On behalf of TYE Global (TIE Young Entrepreneurs), I'm excited to host you for this enlightening session. I'm certain it will…
Thank you, Adam Draper. On behalf of TYE Global (TIE Young Entrepreneurs), I'm excited to host you for this enlightening session. I'm certain it will…
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Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Technology promises to help us achieve our dreams, connect us to everyone, and free up time--so why are we more miserable then ever? Wadhwa and Salkever show that our unhappiness can be traced to a concerted effort by tech companies to mold our thoughts and behavior to accomplish their goals.
For all its considerable benefits, many argue that technology has been instrumental in eroding security, privacy, and community. But Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever argue that the truth is far more…Technology promises to help us achieve our dreams, connect us to everyone, and free up time--so why are we more miserable then ever? Wadhwa and Salkever show that our unhappiness can be traced to a concerted effort by tech companies to mold our thoughts and behavior to accomplish their goals.
For all its considerable benefits, many argue that technology has been instrumental in eroding security, privacy, and community. But Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever argue that the truth is far more insidious: technology is actively robbing us of our happiness by making us so reliant on it that it becomes an addiction. Tech companies have all the weapons--sophisticated tracking bots, GPS coordinates, and algorithms that determine the optimal ways to distract us to their products and apps--even secret coding that defeats government monitoring and supervision--but Vivek and Salkever now provide us with insights and techniques to fight back. They focus on four key areas: Love, Work, Self, and Society. In each case, they document how the promise of technology has mutated into addiction and despair, and they lay out strategies to take back control by understanding the addictive mechanisms at the root of technology overload -
The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life.
Astonishing technological advances like these are arriving in increasing numbers. Scholar and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa uses this book to alert us to dozens of them and raise important questions about what they…A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life.
Astonishing technological advances like these are arriving in increasing numbers. Scholar and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa uses this book to alert us to dozens of them and raise important questions about what they may mean for us.
Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, self-driving vehicles, drones, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. But the same technologies raise the specter of a frightening, alienating future: eugenics, a jobless economy, complete loss of privacy, and ever-worsening economic inequality. As Wadhwa puts it, our choices will determine if our future is Star Trek or Mad Max.
Wadhwa offers us three questions to ask about every emerging technology: Does it have the potential to benefit everyone equally? What are its risks and rewards? And does it promote autonomy or dependence? Looking at a broad array of advances in this light, he emphasizes that the future is up to us to create—that even if our hands are not on the wheel, we will decide the driverless car's destination.Other authorsSee publication -
The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
Wharton Digital Press
New research shows that the United States is in the midst of an unprecedented slowdown in high-growth, immigrant-founded start-ups. He argues that increased competition from countries like China and India and US immigration policies are leaving some of the most educated and talented entrepreneurial immigrants with no choice but to take their innovation elsewhere. The consequences to our economy are dire; our loss will be the gain of our global competitors.
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Projects
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Innovating Women: Past, Present, and Future
Global Ambassador and Co-Author, Innovating Women: Past, Present, and Future
Supporting Women's Participation in Innovation, Science and Technology
Crowd-Created and Crowd-Funded campaign to create a book with research, stories, and perspectives about women's global participation in the innovation economy. The proceeds from the campaign and the book will go toward programs that work to increase the role of women in shaping the future of science, technology, and innovation.Other creatorsSee project
Honors & Awards
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Silicon Valley Forum's 21st Annual Visionary Award
Silicon Valley Forum
About the Visionary Awards: Each year at the Silicon Valley Forum Visionary Awards, we honor industry leaders who have pioneered innovation and fostered the spirit of entrepreneurship, and whose unique vision continues to shape Silicon Valley. This exclusive evening is where legendary colleagues and past honorees come together to celebrate the spirit of innovation, and honor those who have made Silicon Valley synonymous with creativity and life-changing advancements in technology. The Visionary…
About the Visionary Awards: Each year at the Silicon Valley Forum Visionary Awards, we honor industry leaders who have pioneered innovation and fostered the spirit of entrepreneurship, and whose unique vision continues to shape Silicon Valley. This exclusive evening is where legendary colleagues and past honorees come together to celebrate the spirit of innovation, and honor those who have made Silicon Valley synonymous with creativity and life-changing advancements in technology. The Visionary Awards celebrate leadership in technology, education, venture capital, and entrepreneurship; the caliber of each Honoree’s work—and their presence in their chosen fields—places the Award recipients among the brightest stars of Silicon Valley.
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LinkedIn Top Voices 2016: The 10 must-know Influencers
LinkedIn
LinkedIn’s Influencers — an invite-only group of some of the top minds in business — have access to briefings, data and experts that the rest of us can only dream about. Luckily, they consider it part of the role to share what they’re hearing, how they're seeing the world and how they’re leading their companies because of it.
Every day, followers of Influencers get incredible takes on the state of the global economy, the future of work or how to solve some of the biggest issues facing…LinkedIn’s Influencers — an invite-only group of some of the top minds in business — have access to briefings, data and experts that the rest of us can only dream about. Luckily, they consider it part of the role to share what they’re hearing, how they're seeing the world and how they’re leading their companies because of it.
Every day, followers of Influencers get incredible takes on the state of the global economy, the future of work or how to solve some of the biggest issues facing business, higher education, nonprofits and more.
For the 2016 Top Voices list, we've sifted through the data, looking at factors as diverse as reader engagement (particularly comments and shares) and follower growth, to come up with the Influencers who have had the biggest impacts in 2016.
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FT’s top feminist men help women succeed in business and beyond
Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/106951ca-586c-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html
"Author of Innovating Women: the Changing Face of Technology, Wadhwa has been outspoken in his support of female tech entrepreneurship and has called for venture capitalists to release their gender data, exposing bias in the financing of technology start ups. Mr Wadhwa made news when he criticised Twitter for its all-male board of directors. The social media group has since employed Marjorie Scardino. In 2014, Mr Wadhwa…http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/106951ca-586c-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html
"Author of Innovating Women: the Changing Face of Technology, Wadhwa has been outspoken in his support of female tech entrepreneurship and has called for venture capitalists to release their gender data, exposing bias in the financing of technology start ups. Mr Wadhwa made news when he criticised Twitter for its all-male board of directors. The social media group has since employed Marjorie Scardino. In 2014, Mr Wadhwa came under fire from several critics, who argued that he had become so ubiquitous in his commentary about sexism in technology that he was drowning out female critics" -
TIME Tech 40: The Most Influential Minds in Tech
Time Magazine
http://business.time.com/2013/05/01/time-tech-40-the-ten-most-influential-tech-ceos/slide/vivek-wadhwa-singularity-university
Vivek Wadhwa, Singularity University
By Sam Gustin @samgustin June 17, 2013
Vivek Wadhwa has become a leading voice in debates over technology policy, particularly with respect to entrepreneurship, innovation and immigration. Wadhwa holds academic appointments at Singularity University, Stanford University, and Duke University, and last year was…http://business.time.com/2013/05/01/time-tech-40-the-ten-most-influential-tech-ceos/slide/vivek-wadhwa-singularity-university
Vivek Wadhwa, Singularity University
By Sam Gustin @samgustin June 17, 2013
Vivek Wadhwa has become a leading voice in debates over technology policy, particularly with respect to entrepreneurship, innovation and immigration. Wadhwa holds academic appointments at Singularity University, Stanford University, and Duke University, and last year was named to Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. An Indian-born U.S. citizen, Wadhwa worked at Credit Suisse First Boston earlier in his career, where he helped develop technology for creating computer-aided software-writing systems. He would later found software firm Relativity Technologies.
In his recent book, The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, Wadhwa describes how the U.S. is now telling the best immigrants to go home, due to a lack of immigration visas. As a result of this “reverse brain drain,” as Wadhwa and his colleagues call it, highly skilled workers and professionals are increasingly looking to other global markets to locate their businesses. “We’re seeing a boom in technology entrepreneurship in India, China, and even Russia, because the U.S. won’t let people stay here,” Wadhwa recently told TIME. -
Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinker
Foreign Policy Magazine
The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
Foreign Policy presents a unique portrait of 2012's global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them.
DECEMBER 2012
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,54#thinker90
VIVEK WADHWA
For a fresh idea in the U.S. immigration debate.
Entrepreneur | Menlo Park, Calif.
Start-ups create jobs. Immigrants create start-ups. But immigrants have such a difficult time entering the United States…The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
Foreign Policy presents a unique portrait of 2012's global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them.
DECEMBER 2012
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,54#thinker90
VIVEK WADHWA
For a fresh idea in the U.S. immigration debate.
Entrepreneur | Menlo Park, Calif.
Start-ups create jobs. Immigrants create start-ups. But immigrants have such a difficult time entering the United States that for the first time in decades, immigrant entrepreneurship has stalled. According to a study by entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa -- which he turned into a book this year, The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent -- even as the number of immigrants in the United States has risen, the percentage of immigrant-founded companies has hardly budged from the 25 percent it was at in 2005; in Silicon Valley the numbers fell from 52 percent to 44 percent. It's so bad that the start-up Blueseed is planning to anchor a ship in international waters outside Silicon Valley so that foreign entrepreneurs can live on the vessel and be closer to their investors and clients without needing work visas. How can the United States hope to compete in the 21st century, Wadhwa asks, without welcoming the world's best and brightest?
An Indian-born U.S. citizen, Wadhwa is at the forefront of the movement to institute what he calls a "start-up visa," through which entrepreneurs with proven job creation and company size get fast-tracked for long-term visas. Otherwise, Wadhwa says, the skilled immigrants will be long gone. "They'll be back home building the next Googles and Intels in other countries, and we will wake up five years from now and wonder how we let this happen," he says. It's a wake-up call that post-recession America would do well to heed.
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Immigrant Exodus: An Economist Book of the Year 2012
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21564812-america-needs-rethink-its-immigration-policy
Books of the year
Page turners
The Immigrant Exodus: Why America is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent. By Vivek Wadhwa. Wharton Digital Press; 106 pages; $15.99 and £10.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
A nation that can attract the cleverest people in the world can innovate and prosper indefinitely. An Indian-American technology entrepreneur and…http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21564812-america-needs-rethink-its-immigration-policy
Books of the year
Page turners
The Immigrant Exodus: Why America is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent. By Vivek Wadhwa. Wharton Digital Press; 106 pages; $15.99 and £10.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
A nation that can attract the cleverest people in the world can innovate and prosper indefinitely. An Indian-American technology entrepreneur and academic explains how America is forgetting this crucial lesson—to its cost. -
Outstanding American by Choice
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service
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Outstanding Americans by Choice
The Outstanding American by Choice initiative recognizes the outstanding achievements of naturalized U.S. citizens. Through civic participation, professional achievement, and responsible citizenship, recipients of this honor have demonstrated their commitment to this country and to the common civic values that unite us as Americans.
Throughout the year, USCIS will recognize naturalized…http://www.uscis.gov/images/nativeimages/02-22-12_1.jpg
Outstanding Americans by Choice
The Outstanding American by Choice initiative recognizes the outstanding achievements of naturalized U.S. citizens. Through civic participation, professional achievement, and responsible citizenship, recipients of this honor have demonstrated their commitment to this country and to the common civic values that unite us as Americans.
Throughout the year, USCIS will recognize naturalized citizens who have made significant contributions to both their community and their adopted country
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Vivek Wadhwa has been ahead of so many curves for decades, even compared to so many of his colleagues in Silicon Valley. He's seen it ALL... and…
Vivek Wadhwa has been ahead of so many curves for decades, even compared to so many of his colleagues in Silicon Valley. He's seen it ALL... and…
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This upcoming book by Robert C. Wolcott and Kaihan Krippendorff is almost as awesome as both of them are. :)
This upcoming book by Robert C. Wolcott and Kaihan Krippendorff is almost as awesome as both of them are. :)
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If you missed my talk to members of the IMF, you can watch here: https://lnkd.in/gBK7XKFW
If you missed my talk to members of the IMF, you can watch here: https://lnkd.in/gBK7XKFW
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We are excited to launch the Stanford Quantum Incubator (SQI) - a Silicon Valley business catalyst dedicated to advancing quantum technology…
We are excited to launch the Stanford Quantum Incubator (SQI) - a Silicon Valley business catalyst dedicated to advancing quantum technology…
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I will be speaking at 12:15 PM EST, an hour and a half from now, about what exponential technologies are making possible and how entrepreneurs all…
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Tomorrow, I will be talking about what exponential technologies are making possible and the opportunities and disruptions they create. I believe this…
Tomorrow, I will be talking about what exponential technologies are making possible and the opportunities and disruptions they create. I believe this…
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Sadly for America, what I predicted in my book "Immigrant Exodus" has become the reality: there are more unicorn startups in China and India than the…
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