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Podcast: The Vergecast
Episode: Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist
Description: Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to founder and CEO of The Future Today Institute Amy Webb.Amy is also a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business and recently came out with a book called The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity. During the coronavirus pandemic, Amy and Nilay discuss whether we could have predicted this outbreak, how it can change trends in the future, and how it may even accelerate trends like AI and cloud-based robotics.They also talk about The Future Today Institute's 2020 Tech...