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Alec Ross (@alecjross) is an Obama administration alum and one of America’s leading experts on innovation. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Industries of the Future which explores the technological and economic trends and developments that will shape the next ten years, from cybersecurity and big data to the commercialization of genomics to the code-ification of money, markets and trust.
He recently served for four years as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and acted as the diplomatic lead on issues including cybersecurity, Internet Freedom, disaster response and the use of network technologies in conflict zones. Previously, Alec served as the Convener for the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Policy Committee on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The reason Obama was such a special, charismatic leader and what other leaders can learn from him
- Why Alec left a successful entrepreneurial career to help Obama on his first campaign
- The possibly existential problem with social media
- How politics changes post-Trump and where we are headed
- Why Alec isn't that worried about tech monopolies
- How the US government thinks about and promotes innovation, here and abroad
- Which industries Alec believes become $1T markets
- Why biotech and human enhancement are inevitable
- The big difference between CEOs and politicians
- Why health, genomics and personalized medicine as passions of Alec
- The reason the US trumps China in long term innovation and growth
- Why Hiliary's loss felt inevitable, and drawn out
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Alec Ross (@alecjross) is an Obama administration alum and one of America’s leading experts on innovation. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Industries of the Future which explores the technological and economic trends and developments that will shape the next ten years, from cybersecurity and big data to the commercialization of genomics to the code-ification of money, markets and trust.
He recently served for four years as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and acted as the diplomatic lead on issues including cybersecurity, Internet Freedom, disaster response and the use of network technologies in conflict zones. Previously, Alec served as the Convener for the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Policy Committee on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The reason Obama was such a special, charismatic leader and what other leaders can learn from him
- Why Alec left a successful entrepreneurial career to help Obama on his first campaign
- The possibly existential problem with social media
- How politics changes post-Trump and where we are headed
- Why Alec isn't that worried about tech monopolies
- How the US government thinks about and promotes innovation, here and abroad
- Which industries Alec believes become $1T markets
- Why biotech and human enhancement are inevitable
- The big difference between CEOs and politicians
- Why health, genomics and personalized medicine as passions of Alec
- The reason the US trumps China in long term innovation and growth
- Why Hiliary's loss felt inevitable, and drawn out
--
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SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ON iTUNES
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SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ON ANDROID (Any Podcast App)
https://disruptors.fm/android
JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER + GET FREE AUDIOBOOK
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