Amy Webb

7 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 13, 2024 by Amy Webb · across every show →

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Dec 13, 2024 neutral
Insight
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.”
Amy Webb Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 17:47 Futurist Amy Webb: Insights from her 2024 Tech Trends Report | Masters of Scale
Dec 13, 2024
Disclosure
Amy Webb bootstrapped Future Today Institute without investors or family wealth
“There were never any investors, and I do not, Look, I come from a very, very modest background. There was no family money whatsoever.”
Amy Webb Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 6:45 Futurist Amy Webb: Insights from her 2024 Tech Trends Report | Masters of Scale
Dec 13, 2024 negative
Insight
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 …”
Amy Webb Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 7:24 Futurist Amy Webb: Insights from her 2024 Tech Trends Report | Masters of Scale
Mar 20, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Amy Webb Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 12:43 Amy Webb on the forces transforming society right now | Masters of Scale
Mar 20, 2026 neutral
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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.”
Amy Webb Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 14:02 Amy Webb on the forces transforming society right now | Masters of Scale
Mar 20, 2026 negative
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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 …”
Amy Webb Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 25:40 Amy Webb on the forces transforming society right now | Masters of Scale
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Insight
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.”
Amy Webb Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 11:54 Amy Webb on the forces transforming society right now | Masters of Scale
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