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Amy Webb

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Amy Webb was named by Forbes?as one of the five women changing the world, listed as the BBC¡¯s 100 Women of 2020, ranked on the Thinkers50 list of the 50 most influential management thinkers globally. She is the author of several popular books, including?The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity,?which was longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award, and won the 2020 Gold Axiom Medal for the best book about business and technology,?and The Signals Are Talking: Why Today¡¯s Fringe Is Tomorrow¡¯s Mainstream, which won the Thinkers50 Radar Award, was selected as?one of Fast Company¡¯s Best Books of 2016, Amazon¡¯s best bo ...more

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Amy Webb I believe that everyone should know and use the tools of a futurist. It's time that we democratized those tools so that everyone can start making more¡­³¾´Ç°ù±ðI believe that everyone should know and use the tools of a futurist. It's time that we democratized those tools so that everyone can start making more informed decisions for the future. My grave concern is that we're stuck in a continual cycle of surprise and fear...or that we make assumptions that emerging technology will lead to a utopian version of life on earth. In both cases, we're essentially saying that the future is pre-determined.

The answer, which I reveal in Signals, is that there is no answer. We cannot know with 100% accurately what will happen next. Therefore we must roll up our sleeves and do the hard but rewarding work of forecasting what's over the horizon. Do that and we don't cede control. We don't just have to accept the inevitably of what's to come. Instead, we have the opportunity to create our own preferred futures together.(less)
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“We¡¯ve made a devil¡¯s pact, swapping convenience and efficiency for an ever-increasing tyranny of information and choice.”
Amy Webb, The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream

“Futurists are skilled at listening to and interpreting the signals talking. It¡¯s a learnable skill, and a process anyone can master. Futurists look for early patterns¡ªpre-trends, if you will¡ªas the scattered points on the fringe converge and begin moving toward the mainstream. They know most patterns will come to nothing, and so they watch and wait and test the patterns to find those few that will evolve into genuine trends. Each trend is a looking glass into the future, a way to see over time¡¯s horizon. The advantage of forecasting the future in this way is obvious. Organizations that can see trends early enough to take action have first-mover influence. But they can also help to inform and shape the broader context, conversing and collaborating with those in other fields to plan ahead.”
Amy Webb, The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream

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