Inventing the Future - What's Next?

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i was excited to come to stanford because of that. There is this kind of air of intellectual curiosity and an almost collaboration on campus, irrespective of your discipline. The class is structured in a really son way. The first half of the course o the classis ten weeks long. And each week we take a different fronttier technology,. But they didn't know it they were going to be debating the utopian or distopian consequences. They have to basically say, ok, let's imagine this comes to life, this technology, what's it goin to look like in 60 years? What's the really rosy picture, and what's the really deep, dark future? Ati

Stanford University is at the beating heart of Silicon Valley and has become almost a rite of passage for generations of entrepreneurs. But how does each generation form, and what skills and mindsets should they be equipped with given our changing world?

No one has thought more about how to shape that entrepreneurial spirit than Dr. Tina Seelig. Seelig is the Executive Director of the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholars program at Stanford among many other leadership roles, and she is also the author of Creativity Rules: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World as well as What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20. Joining Seelig is host Danny Crichton and Lux Capital partner Grace Isford.

We talk about Seelig’s class “Inventing the Future” and how she guides students in considering the utopian and dystopian aspects of the future technologies that are shaping our everyday lives. We also talk about generational differences between students over the past two decades, from the 9/11 generation to the global financial crisis and Covid-19 generations and how global events influence the approach of budding entrepreneurs. Then we walk through how to teach leadership, how to increase luck, and why there is such an important correlation between optimism and agency.