Ep 221. Alec Ross: The Fight For Our Future

<p>Alec Ross is one of the world’s leading experts on innovation. A former senior advisor in the Obama Administration, his book is called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Raging-2020s-Companies-Countries-People/dp/1250770920/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1N9R1YQ5PZ4RF&amp;keywords=alec+ross+raging+2020s&amp;qid=1637269484&amp;qsid=131-2135360-6328352&amp;sprefix=alec+ross%2Caps%2C146&amp;sr=8-1&amp;sres=1250770920%2CB09JV9NG3V%2CB015G0EWLG%2CB07S2ZZB9G%2CB00UDCNJYO%2CB01HFFXLNA%2CB00OSRS4PY%2CB00NMFM242%2CB09K5MFM8S%2C0812252896%2CB086Y4S4ZY%2C1982109661%2C1800561415%2CB00NMFDE3K%2CB08FRP4H2Z%2CB015G0DCFS" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People — and the Fight for Our Future</em></a>. Alec is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at The University of Bologna Business School and a Board Partner at Amplo, a global venture capital firm. During the Obama Administration, Alec served as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, to help modernize the practice of diplomacy and advance America’s foreign policy interests. He also served as the Convener for the Technology &amp; Media Policy Committee on Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team. He’s also the author of the bestselling book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alec-Ross-Industries-Future-Hardcover/dp/B01FMVPWZ4/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Industries of the Future</em></a>.</p><br><p>In this episode, Stew talks with one of the world’s leading experts on innovation, Alec Ross. A former senior advisor in the Obama Administration, his new book is <em>The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People — and the Fight for Our Future.&nbsp; </em>It’s a brilliant, highly-readable, comprehensive analysis of how our social contract became broken that provides practical ideas for action to reset our course toward a better tomorrow.&nbsp; Stew and Alec talk about what he learned starting out as a sch