David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning, best-selling author of nine books published in 21 languages. David is CEO and Curator of Arc Fusion, and a Health Strategist in Residence for IDEO. He is a columnist for the Daily Beast and the chief correspondent for NPR Talk’s Biotech Nation. David writes for The New York Times, Atlantic, Fortune, Wired, National Geographic, Discover, and Outside, among others. He is a former commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition and a special correspondent and producer for ABC’s Nightline and 20/20, a former producer for Discovery Channel, and a correspondent for NOVA’s ScienceNow!. His latest book is When I’m 164: The new science of radical life extension, and what happens if it succeeds (TED books). He also wrote Experimental Man: What One Man’s Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World (Wiley). He is the founding director of the Center of Life Science Policy at UC Berkeley, and is on the faculty at Singularity University. David is finishing his first novel, a biomedical thriller. David’s work has won numerous awards, including Magazine Story of the Year from AAAS, and has been nominated for National Magazine Awards. He has served on an advisory committees of the National Academies of Sciences. David lives in San Francisco and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
Artificial Intelligence
We Should Rename “Artificial Intelligence” (A Modest Proposal)
"Artificial Intelligence" is phrase of the year, yet the term is widely called misleading. And it's ridiculed by industry CEOs. But what can we use instead? "Augmented intelligence"? "Intelligence amplification"? We have a proposal that points beyond flat-footed notions towards the positive future we still believe in.
AI & Health: Hopes, Fears, and Reality
A presentation by David Ewing Duncan of Arc Fusion.
Health care
Artificially Intelligent Healthcare
Session Description: How will AI and analytics alter healthcare? What are the near-term impacts? The craziest possibilities? Will we need fewer doctors, or will AI give us a more complex understanding of “health” and what we can achieve? Below is an excerpt of the Artificially Intelligent Healthcare panel. The full transcript can be found here. […]
Writing Our Genome
Session Description: Even though we can now “read” the human genome, we’re far from understanding it. Two leaders of “Genome Project–write” (which aims to move towards building organisms by starting with their genetic code) update us on scientific and technical advances and the ethical and moral quandaries as we move from decoding the genome to […]
Conferences
Health 17
Techonomy Health was a wide-ranging, day-long conference on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 for leaders about how healthcare is changing fast. How will tech shape the future of healthcare and extend it beyond medical institutions into all our lives?
