Events

Sebastian joins us to share the astonishingly frank and intimate story of Silicon Valley’s dominant venture-capital firms—and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation and the global economy.

Chris’s book is a potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the Internet—and how that affects us all. He will walk us through the history of the internet, showing how it has gone through three major design eras: the first focused on democratising information (read), the second on democratising publishing (write), and the third on democratising ownership (own). We are on the cusp of the third era — own — so he explains the key concepts underlying it, including blockchains and digital services built on top of blockchains.

AI will permeate our lives in unforeseeable ways, but it is clear that the shape of AI’s future—and of our own—cannot be left only to those building it. Verity argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in figuring out what, and who, this technology is really for, if we are to guide it away from our worst fears and toward a future that we can trust and believe in.