Tim O’Reilly, the author of WTF; What’s the Future and Why It’s Up To Us, launched the first commercial website. He's probably the most influential tech publisher. He’s organized incredible conferences bringing together some of the most influential digital leaders, including Tim Berners Lee. He’s credited with being one of the Web’s earliest evangelists, and with helping create the terms Web 2.0, Open ...

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Tim O'Reilly, the author of WTF; What's the Future and Why It's Up To Us, launched the first commercial website .

He is probably the most influential tech publisher. He's organized incredible conferences bringing together some of the most influential digital leaders, including Tim Berners Lee. He's credited with being one of the Web's earliest evangelists, and with helping create the terms Web 2.0, Open Source and Maker Movement

Rough interview notes- before and during:

You offer a very hopeful vision--with caveats--but very hopeful--that the WTF will be one of incredulity and amazement more than disgust.

You wrote, in WTF, "The future is the outcome of millions of intersecting vectors, which add up in unexpected ways. The art is to pick out important vectors and weave a net from them in which to catch a view of the future.

Please start with a story that offers hope.

What's the main goal of your book. What do you want readers to take away?

You offer great maxims throughout the book. One is that if the future is here, already, but not evenly distributed yet, find seeds of that future, study them and ask yourself how things will be different when they are the new normal. What happens if this trend keeps going.

You studied Classics at Harvard, You taught at Esalen. A number of friends have taught there, over the years. What did you take away from those experiences?

You say, "Work on stuff that matters." You've really thought about this. What matters?

And I'll through in that you use a quote from Nick Hanauer, "Solve the biggerst problem you can."

You have a list of items. P352

I love your observation that "moral choice not intelligence or creativity is our greatest asset."

You've said that innovations starts not with entrepreneurs but with people having fun.

You refer to algorithms gone wrong, which can have potentially catastrophic consequences. One example was certainly centralized, algorithm driven mortgage lending. But you're focusing more on tech firms.

There's a real Bottom up aspect to algorithms. Can you talk about that?

Government as a platform?

Platform cooperativism?

You write that when you started online, with your first commercial website, there were 200 websites. Now, your book says, there are 250 billion, and 30 trillion pages.

You claim that technology will not end jobs. Explain your thinking.

You observed to Tech Crunch, commenting on excess focus on shareholders, that since Apple is the most profitable company on the plan they could be paying less attention to shareholders and paying higher salaries to their store workers--AND bring manufacturing to the US--and you have a similar take on Walmart.

Artificial intelligence Algorithms

Augmented Workers vs unaugmented workers

Open Source, Big Data, collective intelligence

You recently organized a conference, The Next Economy,

click here

Economics--the caring economy, the creative economy"

Questions we'll tackle include

• Is human-machine cooperation changing the way we work?
• How are AI and algorithms making it possible to rethink fundamental workflows and transform long-accepted business practices?
• How do we put people to work solving the world's hardest problems?
• What opportunities can businesses find in revitalizing the cities in which they operate?
• Why human originality and creativity is the common thread in many great cities and social networks. How should we pay for this creativity?
• What lessons can we learn from 21st-century network-centric organizations?
• How are AI and "bots" bringing new opportunities into the enterprise?
• Are we measuring the right things? What can we learn about policy and regulation by watching technology companies measure and manage their products?
• How do we manage bias in algorithms?
• What surprising new jobs emerge as the definition of work evolves? Which ones are going to scale?

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

Rob Kall Wikipedia Page

Rob Kall's Bottom Up Radio Show: Over 400 podcasts are archived for downloading here, or can be accessed from iTunes. Or check out my Youtube Channel

Rob Kall/OpEdNews Bottom Up YouTube video channel

Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.

Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.

To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.

For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.

Press coverage in the Wall Street Journal: Party's Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table

Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017

Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript..

To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here.

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