Mark Anderson is CEO of the Strategic News Service (SNS) and publisher of the weekly SNS Global Report on technology and the global economy, read by technology executives and investors worldwide, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Vint Cerf, Michael Dell, Mark Hurd, Paul Allen, Paul Jacobs, Craig Venter, Bill Janeway, Robert Hormats, and Leroy Hood. SNS also publishes the tri-weekly SNS interactive News (iNews) for and about leaders in technology and finance. Mark is the founding chairman of: the Future in Review (FiRe) conference, now in its 13th year, named by The Economistas “the best technology conference in the world;” INVNT/IP (Inventing Nations Vs. Nation-sponsored Theft of IP), a consortium of leading global technology companies working with governments to reduce nation-sponsored IP theft; SNS Project Inkwell, the first global consortium to bring vendors, educators, and students together to accelerate the deployment of appropriate one-to-one technology into K-12 schools; and Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance (ORCA), the sole nonprofit organization working to reduce killer whale mortality rates. The SNS FiReFilms initiative was created in 2009 to identify, support, and promote potentially world-changing documentary films in which technology improves the human condition.Mark is perhaps best known for the accuracy of his predictions, with a publicly graded accuracy rate of 94.5 percent since 1995, including: the Great Recession of late 2007 (made in March of that year, on CNBC Europe’s PowerLunch); the contemporary outbreak of “currency wars” and the first modern use of the term; the advent and success of the CarryAlong computer category (1997) as the fastest-growing and largest in the industry; the first detailed description of the Internet Assistant category (1998); and the global currency crisis of late 1997 (in April of that year). He is the author of the “Global Trifecta Proposal,” a solution set to slow global warming, as well as “Equilibrium Genetics,” the “Resonance Theory” in physics; “Flow Economics,” “Hyperstructural Economics.” Mark holds several patents and has been selected as one of the “100 Smartest People We Know” by Fortune.
The Internet Under Attack
Session Description: As countries seek extreme advantage in the newly-networked world, many are limiting speech, imposing restrictive rules, and taking control of digital infrastructure. Can the internet remain an engine of global economic growth and free information exchange? What happens to the internet in places like China? The full transcript is also available here as a downloadable PDF. Kirkpatrick: […]
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Cyberwar: It’s a MAD MAD World
As society relies ever more on the Internet, cyberwar and its unpredictable consequences has become our 21st century bogeyman. And the country most responsible for letting this particular genie out of its bottle, as with another frightening weapon back in the 1940’s, appears to be the United States. Can there really be winners in a cyberwar?
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Techonomy 19
The theme for Techonomy 2019 in Half Moon Bay, California was “Reset and Restore: Governing Tech, Retrieving Ethics, and Acting on Climate.” We are in a unique period when corporate responsibility and big-picture thinking is absolutely essential.
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Techonomy 18
Techonomy 2018 was a probing, wide-ranging conversation about the tech-inflected issues that affect business and our world. This year’s theme was Harnessing Tech for Responsible Growth, and as always we addressed many of the issues facing leaders today.
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Techonomy 17
“The idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Techonomy 2016. He has subsequently recanted.
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Techonomy 16
MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
