Geek of the Week: Futurist author Richard Yonck helps us better prepare for a rapidly changing world
Author Richard Yonck at SXSW in Austin, Texas, to promote his new book “Heart of the Machine: Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence.” Daydreaming about the future is one thing. Actually being an authority on what’s to come — or at least how to be better prepared for it — is quite another. Richard Yonck is a futurist, author and speaker with Intelligent Future Consulting. He’s also GeekWire’s latest Geek of the Week. “I help businesses, readers and audiences become better prepared for a rapidly changing world,” Yonck said. “With a focus on emerging technologies and the increasingly intelligent ecologies these generate, my perspective is informed by 25 plus years as a futures, computing and media technologist.” Yonck is a widely published author who has written extensively about computing and information, artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, biotechnology, nanotechnology, transhumanism and science literacy. We live in such an incredibly rich, vastly complex universe, I can’t help be continually fascinated thinking about how it functions, how it came about, and where it’s going.His new book, “Heart of the Machine: Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence,” explores the rapidly developing technologies that interact with human…
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Geek of the Week: Futurist author Richard Yonck helps us better prepare for a rapidly changing world
