Alex Salkever

writer and futurist

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Former journalist and tech executive, Alex Salkever is co-author of The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future.

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We started this program 17 years ago; Google and Apple were losing money. Now, 80 percent of Americans are walking search engines with smart phones.

Can humanity survive technology?

We started this program 17 years ago; Google and Apple were losing money. Now, 80 percent of Americans are walking search engines with smart phones.

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