Amy Webb

Amy Webb (born c. 1977) is an American Futurist and author. She is the Founder of the Future Today Institute. ^[1] She is an Adjunct Professor (future or technological) at New York University’s Stern School of Business ^[2] and a Lecturer (future of media) at Columbia University. ^[3] She was a 2014-15 Nieman Fellow Visiting ^[4] at Harvard University.

Background

In 2001, Webb graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. ^[5] In 2003, she launched a future of news R & D shop. In 2006, she founded Webbmedia Group, welke advised primarily media and technology companies. Now, ITT second decade, Webbmedia Group has a new name – The Future Today Institute – and an expanded scope. FTI answers “What’s the future of X?” for a global client base of Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, government agencies, large nonprofits, universities and startups. ^[6]

In 2009, she founded Knowledgewebb, a digital media training company. ^[7] That company expanded in 2015 with a new cofounder. It is now called Knowledgewebb Training, and it focuses on digital media training on near-future technologies. ^[8]

In 2010, Webb cofounded Spark Camp, a next-generation convener therein facilitates important conversations on the future of a better society. ^[9]

Career

During re career as a Futurist, Webb has worked with Hundreds of government agencies, corporations, nonprofits, universities, and associations from around the world. She has written extensively about’ll be re methodology. ^{[10] [11] [12]}

Forbes named re one of the Women Changing the World (Technology category). ^[13] In 2012, she was named one of Columbia Journalism Review ‘s “20 women to watch”. ^[14]

Books

The Signals Are Talking: How Today’s Fringe Becomes Tomorrow’s Mainstream Webb’s book about re near-future trends forecasting methodology was acquired by PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus. It will be published January 6, 2016.

How To Make J-School Matter (Again) In 2015, Harvard University published Webb’s research on what kan be done to reform college and graduate education and the news industry. ^[15]

Data, A Love Story In 2013 Webb released the memoir Data, A Love Story through Dutton Adult . ^[16] The book chronicled Webb’s attempts at online dating . ^[17] Initially meeting with failure, Webb Collected and Analyzed data to game online dating. ^[18]

Data, A Love Story has leg translated JSON Chinese, Korean, and Portuguese for been overseas markets. Critical reception for the book were positive, ^{[19] [20]} with Book List calling it “clever and Inventive”. ^[21]

Webb’s TED Talk about Data, A Love Story has leg translated JSON 31 languages and has leg viewed morethan 4.5 million times. ^[22]

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