In conversation with Dr Jonathan D Quick (US)
The Future of Everything
Queensland Terrace, State Library of Queensland
Culture/Social Equity
357
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
From the author of Why the Future is Workless. Dunlop discusses all things future.
#Artist
Tim Dunlop
Tim Dunlop is an author and an in-demand public commentator. He teaches new media and journalism and the University of Melbourne. He has been a columnist for the ABC, as well for News Ltd. He writes on the future of work for The Guardian and speaks regularly in public and professional forums around the world on the same topic. His 2015 book, The New Front Page is a seminal text on the digital media revolution and presaged changes still affecting the industry. His 2017 book, the best-selling Why The Future Is Workless, discusses technology and the future of work.
In his new book, The Future of Everything, he does what few are willing to do. He goes beyond mere analysis and offers a comprehensive set of changes that will make the world a better place: fairer, more democratic, less violent, more joyous. It is an audacious agenda for real democratic change that looks at work, wealth, journalism, government, education and the natural world. It argues that we are all in this together and that in order to change things we are going to have to take back control from those who are currently failing us.
#Moderator
Dr Jonathan D Quick (US)
Dr. Jonathan D. Quick (“Jono”) is a family physician, international public health expert, author, and speaker on a mission to protect humanity from deadly infectious disease epidemics. He is the author of The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It (St. Martin’s Press, U.S.; Scribe Publications, UK/Australia).Dr. Quick is Senior Fellow Emeritus and former President and CEO at the global health nonprofit Management Sciences for Health. He is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and serves as chair of the Global Health Council. Previously, Dr. Quick served as director of essential medicines at the World Health Organization and as resident health advisor in Afghanistan and Kenya. His work has appeared in TIME Magazine, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Daily Mail (UK), Forbes, Huffington Post, WBUR’s CommonHealth and elsewhere.He co-created Managing Access to Medicines and Health Technologies (MDS-3), the Financial Times Guide to Executive Health and has written more than 100 other books, chapters, and articles in leading medical journals.He has a first degree from Harvard University and a medical degree and masters of public health from the University of Rochester. He was a family medicine chief resident at Duke University.
