Amy Webb
Founder & CEO, Future Today Strategy Group. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Webb advises executives and policymakers on emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, and produces an annual Tech Trends Report. She has authored multiple books on technology forecasting, including The Big Nine and The Genesis Machine.
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2appearances
22statements
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1contradicted
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Everything Amy Webb said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Webb: China will technologically leapfrog the US within ten years
“So what's gonna wind up happening is, 10 years from now, China's gonna leapfrog us. I'm sorry, but like, anybody can, like, I'm happy to argue with anybody all day long about this, but we are missing the structural components for success.”
Webb: Generative AI and programmable biology enable non-experts to create bioweapons
“It also means absolutely terrifying lethal bioweapons that can be produced by people that maybe wouldn't have had the tools before.”
Webb: China is funding ten-year AI infrastructure to deploy across 1.4B citizens
“China is saying, we're not going to worry about innovation right now. We are going to build infrastructure. So in a, by the time this Show comes out. China probably will have announced its next five-year plan, and that next year five-year plan is funding a ten…”
Webb: Singapore could become a net chicken exporter using cultured meat
“Singapore could become a net exporter of chicken to Malaysia, to other places around Southeast Asia.”
Webb: Programmable biology allows humans to design materials in unprecedented ways
“Biology has become editable, writable, readable. Which means that we can design anything in the physical world in a way that we've never been able to before.”
Webb: US corporations built a decentralized surveillance state rivaling China's system
“What people don't recognize is that the same thing exists here in Maryland, in the United States, in the West. The difference is it wasn't built by a single government. It's a corporate panopticon.”
Webb: US tech companies give the rest of the world free R&D
“And the result is, we are giving the rest of the world free R&D. Yeah. Think about how, Jeff, our companies are competing. They're competing on, they're not competing on scale. They're competing on, like, who's got the coolest, shiniest stuff that we can marke…”
Webb: Founders motivated solely by exiting make poor company-building decisions
“And if you're, if your desire in life is to exit, then you should be doing something else because your motivation is in the wrong spot. And that means you're going to be making decisions that are never in the best interests of the one great thing that must be …”
Webb: Convergence of AI, sensors, and biotech drives a technology flywheel
“But individually, these groupings of technologies, these general purpose technologies aren't important. It's the convergence we discovered that matters. And what's happening is improvements in one begets improvements in the other. So there's this sort of flywh…”
Webb: Heavy-handed regulation causes lawsuits rather than compliance
“If you use the heavy hand of regulation, and we've already seen this in Europe you don't get compliance, you get lawsuits. And part of the problem with regulation is that it's inherently a reaction to something that's already happened.”
Webb: Early social apps missed that their real breakthrough was location services
“If you go back in time to the original crop of location-based network social media apps, so that would have been Foursquare, Gowalla, Scavenger, everybody got the trend wrong. The trend was not cool badges and people checking in, like, That, that wasn't the tr…”
Webb: The shift to a post-search internet will be felt immediately
“The one that's gonna be immediately Recognizable and felt is the post search internet.”
Webb: AI risks eroding our capacity for deep thought like GPS
“My concern with science fiction meeting reality, especially as it relates to AI, is that we're creating a world in which we can't allow our minds to get lost. You know, it's a little bit like GPS. People have forgotten how to orient themselves because we just …”
Webb: AI, advanced sensors, and biotech qualify as general purpose technologies
“So it turns out, in the course of our research artificial intelligence is a general purpose technology, which is defined as you know, something that has a profound and lasting impact on the economy. You mentioned as a general purpose technology. Electricity. Y…”
Webb: Tracking contradictions is key to forecasting emerging trends
“In my world, contradictions are very, very important. It's one of the ways that we track signals and start to think about what are trends.”
Webb: Weight loss drugs are a product of AI and biotechnology
“All of these weight loss drugs, like, right? That is also a product of AI and biotechnology.”
Webb: Healthcare will see the most disruption from tech supercycle
“As this technology super cycle spins up, I think that's one of the places we're gonna see the most impact, because it's the most vulnerable to disruption.”
Webb: Looking only at direct competitors to grow is a huge mistake
“The problem is that when people are looking for how to change or grow, they look at their peers, you know, their direct competitive set. They are never looking at their near peers or even theoretical peers, right? Or those who are a couple of clicks away. Or l…”
Webb: Schibsted became highly profitable by preemptively adapting to the internet
“It is a news organization in Norway called Shibsted. So it's okay if you've never heard of it. It is like one of the largest and most profitable to this day news organizations, and it is because they saw a convergence coming and were able to take action on it …”
Webb: DeepMind recently released a biology-focused LLM equivalent
“DeepMind just released a new equivalent of like a large language model, but for biology.”
Webb: US regulates biological products while other nations regulate processes
“In the United States, we govern product versus process. In other countries, the governance is around the process. For biology versus the product.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Amy's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Founder & CEO, Future Today Strategy Group | 2 | 22 | 50% 2/4 | full record on Masters of Scale → |