Joi Ito
Director of MIT Media Lab | Pioneering the Future of Technology
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Joi Ito is the former Director of the renowned MIT Media Lab, where he led the institution's pioneering work at the intersection of technology, design, and society. A serial entrepreneur, he has founded and funded numerous startups, and currently serves on the boards of organizations like the Knight Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. Ito's keynotes challenge audiences to embrace a mindset of 'radical' innovation, leveraging emerging technologies to tackle complex global problems in transformative ways.
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Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist"
"Remember before the internet?" asks Joi Ito. "Remember when people used to try to predict the future?" In this engaging talk, the head of the MIT Media Lab skips the future predictions and instead shares a new approach to creating in the moment: building quickly and improving constantly, without waiting for permission or for proof that you have the right idea. This kind of bottom-up innovation is seen in the most fascinating, futuristic projects emerging today, and it starts, he says, with being open and alert to what's going on around you right now. Don't be a futurist, he suggests: be a now-ist.
| Event | Year | Location |
|---|---|---|
| TED | 2014 | 🇨🇦Vancouver, Canada |
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