Leading the Emergence

The Future Is Now: Technology and Society in the 2020's and Beyond

July 28, 2021 Kate Ebner Season 1 Episode 5
Leading the Emergence
The Future Is Now: Technology and Society in the 2020's and Beyond
Show Notes

Description: Host Kate Ebner is joined by Lee Rainie, the Director of Internet and Technology Research at Pew Research Center, for an insightful and timely conversation about the future of technology. Earlier this summer, Lee appeared as a panelist at the virtual learning event, Unprecedented! The Impact of Technology on Society as part of the Citizen Leadership in the 21st Century series hosted by The Nebo Company and Loyola University Maryland. In this episode of Leading the Emergence, Kate and Lee discuss the ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the increasing presence of technology in our everyday lives, and the future of the virtual workplace. 

Lee Rainie is a co-author of Networked: The new social operating system and five books about the future of the internet that are drawn from the Center’s research. He gives several dozen speeches a year to government officials, media leaders, scholars and students, technology executives, librarians, and nonprofit groups about the changing media ecosystem.