Alec Ross
Author, The Industries of the Future. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Alec Ross is the author of The Industries of the Future and a former innovation advisor to Hillary Clinton. He worked on the first Obama presidential campaign and examines the global impact of technological change.
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Ross: Declassified US estimate puts Chinese cyber IP theft above $300B annually
“When I was in government, we declassified a national intelligence estimate, which we tend not to do. Well, we declassified a national intelligence estimate that actually put a number on the amount of intellectual property theft taking place because of cyber at…”
Ross: Iranians repurposed US malware to destroy 30,000 Saudi Aramco computers
“I've seen evidence that the malware that the United States is alleged to have used against Iran it looks like, if you look at the code base, it looks like Much of that code was used by the Iranians against the Saudis in attack, in an attack against Saudi Aramc…”
Ross: Open societies will dominate tech-driven industries over the next 20 years
“Thinking about the industries of the future, not necessarily looking back at the 20 years of digitization and the rise of the consumer internet, but looking forward to the next 20 years, trying to be deterministic about how political systems map to economic ou…”
Ross: Governments should not mandate backdoors into encrypted technologies
“And I think that it is perfectly reasonable for there to be close collaboration between the technology community and the intelligence and law enforcement communities in ways that, that fall short of say mandating backdoors into encrypted technologies.”
Ross: The world's next trillion-dollar industry will come from genetic code
“You know, the world's last trillion dollar industry was created out of computer code. I think the world's next trillion dollar industry is going to be created out of genetic code.”
Ross: Chicago lacks a lasting internet tech sector due to talent shortfalls
“I even think about a city like Chicago. Chicago has so much going for it, but you, when you really scratch the surface a little bit At least for internet-based businesses, there isn't much there that's lasting, that's created significant employment or other th…”
Ross: Code weaponization is the biggest conflict development since nuclear arms
“I believe that the weaponization of code Is the most significant development in conflict since the weaponization of fissile material.”
Ross: The 21st-century political binary is open versus closed, not left-right
“I think that the principal political binary of the 20th century was left versus right. It was the political left versus the political right. But in the 21st century, in the present day, the principal political binary is open versus closed.”
Ross: Western European data sovereignty laws conflict with cloud computing architecture
“Governments in Western Europe are basically building a series of regulations and laws that work across the grain of the way that the cloud works.”
Ross: 80% of future tier-one global cities will be outside the US
“And I think that we're moving toward a world where there are between, between let's call it 10 to 15 tier one cities, alpha cities, you know, places, you know, you can think of sort of the San Francisco Bay Area as one of these. You can think of New York City …”
Ross: Top-down tech hubs fail due to human capital, not tax incentives
“Where I see it fail, where you line up all the tax incentives, where you've got the public private partnerships, where you've got Everything just right, but it doesn't end up working tends to be a failure of human capital. You know, you don't actually have the…”
Ross: Combining STEM and humanities will drive future career success
“I think that the people who are going to be best equipped to compete and succeed in, in the industries of the future are those who most effectively blend That which is technical and scientific with the humanities.”
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