Stephen Petranek
Emerging Technology Futurist | TED Talks Exploring Tomorrow's World
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Stephen Petranek is a leading voice on emerging technologies and their transformative potential. As a sought-after TED speaker, he untangles cutting-edge innovations to predict which will become fixtures of our future lives.
Petranek's work has explored game-changing advancements in AI, automation, space exploration, and more. His keynotes provide audiences with a visionary yet pragmatic lens to understand how rapid technological change will reshape industries and human experience.
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Your kids might live on Mars. Here's how they'll survive
It sounds like science fiction, but journalist Stephen Petranek considers it fact: within 20 years, humans will live on Mars. In this provocative talk, Petranek makes the case that humans will become a spacefaring species and describes in fascinating detail how we'll make Mars our next home. "Humans will survive no matter what happens on Earth," Petranek says. "We will never be the last of our kind."
| Event | Year | Location |
|---|---|---|
| TED×2 | 2015, 2002 | 🇨🇦Vancouver, Canada🇺🇸Monterey, United States |
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