Discussion of “Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future and Shape It”
In this month’s book discussion, we are excited to have author (and entrepreneur, futurist, speaker, and past Austin Forum presenter and podcast interviewee!) Byron Reese lead a discussion of his new book: Stories, Dice, and Rock That Think: How Humans Learned...
An AI Discussion on Fairness, Responsibility, Bias, and Other Ethical Issues
AI is changing the world in which we live, work, learn and play, permeating our lives and jobs and our devices and places, and enabling innovations and discoveries in research and industry. However, this huge adoption of AI — both for support of human decisions and...
Exploring Tech & Society Through Sci-Fi: Austin Forum Sci-Fi Book Club
We will kick off the Austin Forum Sci-Fi book club with Neil Stephenson’s “Snow Crash,” a novel that inspired many of the ideas and terms we use in technology today! While “Snow Crash” isn’t a new novel — it was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1994 — the...