The world has experienced some heavy changes in the last 12 months. Intense political and cultural polarization. Conflict, unexpected political outcomes. More surveillance and control.
In her talk, Berit rises the questions about the threat that Internet poses to democracy and what we can do about it.

Berit Anderson is the CEO and founder of Scout, a media company which explores the social implications of technology by combining analysis and near-term science fiction. Before founding Scout, Berit was the managing editor at Crosscut.com, a civic news site in Seattle, where she reinvented community journalism to help solve local problems and staged scenario planning games to help the city plan for cyber-attacks and deal with climate refugees. She has worked closely with Strategic News Service, a predictive newsletter read by Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, as well as the SNS FiRe conference, which brings together C-level technology executives, world-class scientists, and Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers to discuss how science and technology are reshaping our world.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx