Audiobooks by Amy Webb

The Year in Tech, 2026: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

"A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place. Agentic AI, smart health care, advanced sensors, bioengineering—new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim to disruption? The Year in Tech, 2026: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand what the latest and most important tech innovations mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment. Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow."

Amy Webb, Christina Shim, Harvard Business Review, José Parra-Moyano, Scott D. Anthony (Author), Mary Pochatko, Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)

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The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

"A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological systems like we program computers.   The breakthrough science of synthetic biology has the potential to help solve humanity's existential challenges from climate change, to the health and feeding of millions, to fighting the next viral outbreak before it becomes a global pandemic.   A promising and controversial science that combines biology and artificial intelligence, synthetic biology opens up the possibility of programming biological systems much as we program computers. Rather than life being "a beautiful game of chance," synthetic biology can give us control over our genetic destiny, say no to bad genes, and add new capabilities into any cell, microbe, plant, or animal-enabling us not just to read and edit DNA, but write it. And herein lies the controversy.   Whether we approve or disapprove, synthetic biology is coming. Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel give us the understanding we need to assess both the promise and peril of the science as well as the complex ethical, moral, political, and societal issues surrounding it."

Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel (Author), Amanda Dolan, Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Landon Woodson, Tim Campbell (Narrator)

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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

"A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. We like to think that we are in control of the future of 'artificial' intelligence. The reality, though, is that we -- the everyday people whose data powers AI -- aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into -- one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations -- Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple--are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain. In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI -- the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself -- is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity. Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course, and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations."

Amy Webb (Author), Amanda Dolan (Narrator)

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The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream

"An expert in trend forecasting shows how to anticipate what's next and prepare your business, your market, and your products for the future "Amy Webb, with insight and a big dose of pragmatism, shows how to clearly see the next big disruption and then take action before it strikes." ―Ram Charan, coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Execution A Fast Company Best Book of the Year How do you tell a real trend from the merely trendy? How, for example, will a technology-like artificial intelligence, machine learning, self-driving cars, biohacking, bots, and the Internet of Things-affect us, our businesses, and workplaces? How will it eventually change the way we live, work, play, and think-and how should we prepare for it now?   In The Signals Are Talking, noted futurist Amy Webb shows us how to analyze the "true signals"-those patterns that will coalesce into a trend with the potential to change everything-and land on the right side of disruption. The future, Webb shows, isn't something that happens to us passively. Using a proven, tested methodology, she enables us to see ahead and forecast what's to come-challenging us to create our own preferred futures."

Amy Webb (Author), Tiffany Morgan (Narrator)

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