Seeing the Future: Joi Ito at TEDxMidwest

The internet has had a profound effect on the evolution of business and innovation across the globe. The paradigm shift created by the internet has changed the way that we interact with one another, how start-ups go from idea to market, while the philosophy of "build first, think later" has become the rule rather than the exception. Joi Ito pulls from his vast experiences in the trenches of the "Tech Revolution" to take us on a thought provoking journey introducing the audience to the world . . . "After Internet."

Joi Ito, Director of MIT Media Lab, is a leading thinker and writer on innovation, global technology policy and the role of the internet in transforming society. He is an advocate of emergent democracy, privacy, and Internet freedom, sitting on the boards of Creative Commons, Knight Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, WITNESS, Global Voices and the New York Times. Ito was an early investor in Flickr, Kickstarter and Twitter. He has been honored a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum and one of "25 Most Influential People on the Web" by BusinessWeek. In 2011, he received the Oxford Internet Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award.

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