David Baker
Futurist | Emerging Technology's Impact on Business
About
David Baker is a globally renowned futurist who explores the transformative potential of emerging technologies. As a faculty member at Singularity University, he advises Fortune 500 executives on how innovations like AI, quantum computing, and nanotechnology will reshape industries and human society.
Baker's bestselling book 'The Infinite Entrepreneur' has sold over 250,000 copies, and his TED Talks have reached millions. Audiences leave his keynotes with a deeper understanding of exponential change and practical strategies for thriving in the digital age.
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5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins
Proteins are remarkable molecular machines: they digest your food, fire your neurons, power your immune system and so much more. What if we could design new ones, with functions never before seen in nature? In this remarkable glimpse of the future, David Baker shares how his team at the Institute for Protein Design is creating entirely new proteins from scratch -- and shows how they could help us tackle five massive challenges facing humanity. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
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