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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future

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Lecture
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  • Tuesday, 13 May 2014
  • 00:13 - 00:13
  • Duration: 1 hr 4 mins
  • Publication date: 13 May 2014
  • Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of series IET and RTS Joint Lecture and Part of event RTS and IET Joint Public Lecture

About the session

The speaker uses the words of Nobel prize-winning physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr as a starting point to explore the big questions facing us in a technology-led future. The speaker discusses the challenges and opportunities for innovation in the UK and does some gazing into the crystal ball. The past may be a different country, but the future is a different realm entirely - and we may need to adapt our habits and opinions to live, and indeed thrive, there.


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    Mike Lynch

    Invoke Capital, Technology Entrepreneur

    Dr Mike Lynch is a celebrated technologist who has a proven track record of identifying and monetising fundamental technologies. He founded Autonomy in 1996 based on technology invented at Cambridge University, where he studied Information Sciences, received a Ph.D. and held a research fellowship in adaptive pattern recognition. He served as CEO of Autonomy for over 15 years, during which time it became one of the UK's most successful technology companies on the FTSE100. The company was acquired by HP for 11 billion dollars in 2011 and following his departure Dr Mike Lynch founded Invoke Capital, a technology investment and advisory company focused on identifying world-leading technology emerging across Europe.Dr Mike Lynch has won numerous awards, including Computer Weekly's 'Most Influential Person of the Year' and the Chartered Institute for IT's award for Outstanding Contribution to IT in 2011. He was awarded an OBE for Services to Enterprise in 2006. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, an honorary fellow of Christ's College Cambridge and a non-executive director of the British Library. He is also a scientific advisor to the UK Prime Minister.
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