What do you do if you don’t go to the Summit of the Future?
Of course, you go to the San Sebastian Film Festival! This is the first year since I think 2009 that I haven’t been in New York for the High-Level week at the UN and whatever associated events are happening. This year it’s the Summit of the Future and the AMR Summit and of course Climate Week. Although I think the work around AMR has been great with a lot of the recommendations from the report chaired by Mai Motley it isn’t an area, I have done much work on since 2015. I didn’t have a reason to attend the New York meetings for that. The Summit of the Future is a huge, missed opportunity to address the much larger governance issues around new technology that are emerging. If you are interested in this area, I do suggest grabbing a copy of my book Tomorrow’s People and New Technology. The book looks at nine disruptive industries and how they impact on delivering the 2030 agenda and the Paris Agreement looking through the use of these technologies in our homes, travel, jobs, health ed...