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Leading the Emergence

How do we navigate as leaders when we can’t see the future? Join us as we explore this question and what it means for leaders in 2021 and beyond. We’ve learned that, while we can’t forecast the future with certainty, there are powerful strategies that enable better, more confident navigation. Join Nebo’s first podcast, Leading the Emergence, a six-part series of conversations with thought leaders who can help us discern what’s coming. Host Kate Ebner will invite perspectives from futurists, analysts, innovators and visionaries whose insights and methods can illuminate useful strategies for all.

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

July 28, 2021 • Kate Ebner • Season 1 • Episode 5

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.