The Future C2.3

Hello all!

For this weeks project I would like you to focus on creating a presentation about futurist Amy Webb.

Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist whose research focus is on artificial intelligence and how emerging technologies will transform the way we live, work, and govern. She is the author of The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream, a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business, and the founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading future forecasting firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures. Now in its second decade, FTI advises Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, government agencies, large nonprofits, universities and startups around the world. Amy also publishes the annual FTI Emerging Tech Trends Report, which has now garnered more than 6.2 million cumulative views worldwide.

This video will give you a great introduction to Amy and what she does for a living as well. Her new book, 'The Big Nine,' which I could not recommend more, is an incredible book about the future of AI and the 9 Tech Firms that control nearly all AI development.

For your presentation watch the following video and read this article from the MIT technology review. Summarize her views on the future and present them in a 10 minute presentation. Your presentation should also include a brief biography of Amy Webb and her career achievements. Also, at the end of the presentation you should give your own opinion of how futurists like Ms. Webb can help our society and your own views on the future she predicts may happen.

Atomic Bomb: Triumph or Victimization?

Here is a list of resources, videos, and statistics about the usage of the Atomic Bombs at the end of World War Two.













Other resources:

Thank God for the Atom Bomb: by Paul Fussel Written by a WW2 Soldier.

Hiroshima by John Hershey. I read this book in high school and it was the first time I'd ever read something that was so honest about the bombings of Hiroshima.

A film by Studio Ghibli about the war from the civilian perspective. One of the best animated films ever made.


A list of war crimes committed by the Imperial Forces of Japan

War Crimes Committed by the USA during WW 2

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Supernova in the East Episode 1. A long form history podcast spanning from the feudal history of Japan to the Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.

Please feel free to suggest any other resources I should add.