Critical Conversation: Our Digital Future: AI, Drones and the Metaverse

Jacob Ward, David Sax and Anthony Morgan

Critical Conversation: Our Digital Future: AI, Drones and the Metaverse

Jacob Ward, David Sax and Anthony Morgan

7:00pm

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Each day of the Festival, authors and industry experts will come together for candid, live conversations to examine a new facet of the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read.

We often think of the digital society in the future sense but it surrounds us right now, especially with the greater need for digital living and working during the pandemic. How much do we understand and how much do we want or need drone deliveries and driverless cars? With Facebook launching the Metaverse, what is the true potential and what are the real perils? Are we too late to choose change? Join our conversation featuring David Sax, a writer, reporter and speaker who specializes in business and culture. Sax is the author of The Future is Analog which shows how the pandemic inspired a move away from digital and argues for a more human future. Joining Sax will be Jacob Ward, technology correspondent for NBC News, previously science and technology correspondent for CNN and former editor-in-chief of Popular Science magazine. His book The Loop explores the threat AI already poses to humanity.

Moderated by Anthony Morgan.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: October 1 at 7pm ET
Where: Studio Theatre in Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 75 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass

Sponsored by Baillie Gifford.

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Each day of the Festival, authors and industry experts will come together for candid, live conversations to examine a new facet of the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read.

We often think of the digital society in the future sense but it surrounds us right now, especially with the greater need for digital living and working during the pandemic. How much do we understand and how much do we want or need drone deliveries and driverless cars? With Facebook launching the Metaverse, what is the true potential and what are the real perils? Are we too late to choose change? Join our conversation featuring David Sax, a writer, reporter and speaker who specializes in business and culture. Sax is the author of The Future is Analog which shows how the pandemic inspired a move away from digital and argues for a more human future. Joining Sax will be Jacob Ward, technology correspondent for NBC News, previously science and technology correspondent for CNN and former editor-in-chief of Popular Science magazine. His book The Loop explores the threat AI already poses to humanity.

Moderated by Anthony Morgan.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: October 1 at 7pm ET
Where: Studio Theatre in Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 75 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass

Sponsored by Baillie Gifford.

Baillie Gifford banner - "Curious about the world, bailliegifford.com"

Featured Authors

Jacob Ward
Jacob Ward is technology correspondent for NBC News, and previously worked as a science and technology correspondent for CNN, Al Jazeera and PBS. The former editor-in-chief of Popular Science magazine, Ward writes for The New Yorker, Wired and Men's Health. His ten-episode Audible podcast series, Complicated, discusses humanity's most difficult problems, and he's the host of a four-hour PBS documentary series, "Hacking Your Mind," that introduces a television audience to the fundamental scientific discoveries in human decision making and irrationality. In 2018, he was a Berggruen Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences.

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David Sax
David Sax is a writer, reporter and speaker who specializes in business and culture. His book The Revenge of Analog was a #1 Washington Post bestseller, was selected as one of Michiko Kakutani's Top Ten books of 2016 for the New York Times, and has been translated into six languages. He is also the author of three other books: Save the Deli, which won a James Beard award, The Soul of an Entrepreneur, and The Tastemakers. He lives in Toronto.

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Anthony Morgan
Anthony Morgan is an entrepreneur, game designer, PhD researcher. He's the former host of Discovery Channel's Daily Planet and one of the current hosts of CBC's The Nature of Things. He's spent close to 20 years working across multiple disciplines in science communication including live engagements at the Ontario Science Center, web series production for Asap SCIENCE and SciShow. He serves on the steering committee for Science Up First - a national organization for countering misinformation. His PhD research explores strategies and tools to reduce polarization and improve conversations around controversial science. He was recognized as one of Canada's top 10 millennial change-makers by the CBC.

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7:00pm

Saturday, October 1

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