In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by George Zarkadakis, the author of "Cyber Republic: Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Intelligent Machines", to discuss his plan for using technology to make liberal democracies more inclusive and the digital economy more equitable.
George Zarkadakis is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, a science communicator, an Artificial Intelligence engineer, a futurist, and a digital innovation professional. He writes fiction and non-fiction books, and he's also working with private and public organizations to reimagine business and democratic institutions in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
At school George Zarkadakis read tons of comics and science fiction books and dreamt of becoming an interstellar astronaut. In his early 20s George went on to read almost every beatnik author he could lay his hands on. He retains two authors that still inspire him: Phillip K. Dick and William Burroughs.
George views the arts, the humanities, the natural sciences and engineering not as discrete disciplines but as a continuum, a wonderful canvas continuously enriched by human creativity and imagination. That’s why he believes that we need a new Renaissance spirit to inspire us and guide us towards overcoming our shared, global problems of armed conflict, inequality of opportunity, poverty, health, and environmental catastrophe.
George Zarkadakis on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Post-Pandemic World