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Unlocking Us · January 15, 2025 · 52m

Amy Webb on the Technology Super Cycle

Futurist Amy Webb discusses three converging technologies — AI, wearable devices, and biotechnology — that form a super cycle that will transform healthcare, work, and human identity in the next decade.

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Highlights

The super cycle of AI + biotech + wearables will change what it means to be human — not in decades but in years
Webb argues that the convergence of AI (intelligence augmentation), biotechnology (genetic editing), and wearable sensors (continuous health monitoring) creates a feedback loop that will transform human capabilities faster than any previous technology wave.
The most important question about emerging technology is not can we? but should we? — and who decides?
Webb argues that the governance gap — technology advancing faster than the rules governing it — is the central challenge of the next decade. By the time we develop rules, the technology will have already reshaped society.
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