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David Pogue is a visionary ex-columnist on Personal Tech for the New York Times and one of the most followed and respected voices in the industry of Information Technology.

David Pogue was the New York Times weekly tech columnist from 2000 to 2013. He’s a five-time Emmy winner for his stories on CBS News Sunday Morning, a New York Times bestselling author, a five-time TED speaker, and host of 20 NOVA science specials on PBS.

After graduating summa cum laude from Yale in 1985 with distinction in music, David Pogue spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. He has won a Loeb Award for journalism, two Webby awards, and an honorary doctorate in music.

David Pogue is one of the world’s best-selling “how-to” authors, with more than 120 titles and 3 million copies in print, including dozens in the Missing Manual tech series, which he created in 1999; six books in the For Dummies line; two novels (one for middle-schoolers); his three bestselling Pogue’s Basics books of tips and shortcuts (on Tech, Money, and Life); his new how-to guides, iPhone Unlocked and Mac Unlocked; and his 2021 magnum opus, How to Prepare for Climate Change.

Speaking Topics

Disruptive Tech: The Unrecognizable New World of Tech and Culture

In this funny, fast-paced snapshot of the new world, New York Times columnist David Pogue will bring you up to date–and help you consider what we’ll gain, what we’ll lose, and what beliefs will shift into something we’ve never seen before.

AI, Robotics, and Life in 2050

In this talk, David Pogue explores where we are on the road to automated employees, prepares audiences practically and emotionally for that very near future, assesses just how good or bad the situation will be, and evaluates some of the solutions.

Blockchain: Bitcoin and Way, Way Beyond

David Pogue, called “one of the world’s best explainers” by Wired cofounder Kevin Kelly, takes you through the rich, thrumming promise—and peril—of the blockchain future.

The Quantified Self: When Patients Become Doctors

People buy small, wearable trackers that monitor activity, sleep, diet, sleep, heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen and more. These apps and devices are turning amateurs into self-testing, self-diagnosing medical hobbyists. Can patients be trusted to use these devices properly? Will they be tempted to skip out on proper medical care? Will they challenge their doctor’s advice? And what about privacy? David Pogue explores these questions.

Is Technology Killing Us?

We’ve immersed ourselves in digital tools—tablets, touchscreen phones, ubiquitous Internet—without much concern for the potential dangers. In this fascinating and entertaining talk, David Pogue brings you the very latest scientific research on these techno-dangers. He’ll tell you what’s genuinely worth worrying about, and why there’s also cause for hope.

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