Zachary Karabell

Bitcoin: Bubble? Maybe. The Wave of the Future? Definitely.

Bitcoin. The world’s newest and hottest virtual currency. It has become the story du jour for a financial media hungry for stories, and its sudden surge in recent weeks, going from a price of less...

The US-China Battle Over Tech

Ten years ago, Karabell wrote “Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World’s Prosperity Depends on It.” Then five years ago, renowned economist Roach chimed in with “Unbalanced: The Codependency of...

Beyond Silicon Valley

Session Description: Silicon Valley is often held up as the gold standard of revolution and transformation, but what if replicating the Valley isn’t the point? Other hives of innovation and growth buzz around the country and in...

Things United on a Global Platform: The New Distributed Intelligence

Karabell: So as you know from these sessions, these are meant to be discursive and interactive and chatty and not nearly as formal. So let’s have that spirit to it. I am—nor are we supposed...

Navigating China’s Internet Maze

Karabell: These are designed to be more conversational rather than presentational, hence there’s no multimedia and obviously smaller groups. We’re just going to plunge right in. Imran Khan, who is listed on the schedule, from...

The Clash of Generations Reshapes the Workplace

In an age of connectivity, how do different generations interact? Do they trust each other? How do companies seek, find and retain key talent as the worldview of people of different ages in the workplace...

The Sharing Economy and the Symbiotics of City Life

Sharing and so-called “collaborative consumption” is poised to alter city life, company life, and family life. We now use digital tools to assist in sharing cars, bikes and apartments. But we’ve always shared apartments, restaurants,...

Business Infinity

Challenges and opportunities confront business from every direction, in ways that change almost hourly. Business models and ecosystems are being upended, disruptors emerge from the tiniest and least noticed corner, customers and employees demand new...

A New Age of Manufacturing

Read the full transcript below. (Transcript by Realtime Transcription.) For more about Techonomy Detroit, including a complete archive of videos and transcripts, click here. Karabell: I think we are going to start with something we were talking...

Making Sense of a Changing China

As China’s influence expands, how will it influence global innovation? Read excerpt from the discussion below, or download the full transcript. Karabell: In spite of China actually slowing down in its rate of growth this...

Can the U.S. Stay Competitive?

Slow trains; second class cell service; inferior infrastructure; third-tallest buildings; fourth-rate education; 34th in infant mortality. What are we still best at? As innovation flourishes around the world, can the U.S. stay strong? How? This...

NYC 19

The world is in sad shape, which means, among other challenging realities, that all of us need to ensure our work contributes to larger solutions. Tech changes everything, which we love, but it can’t just...

Techonomy 15

Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing...

Techonomy 14

This year Techonomy moves to the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, November 9-11, on the cliffs south of San Francisco, near Silicon Valley.

Techonomy 13

A new society is coming into being. People around the world are building it using the rapidly-evolving tools of technology.

Detroit 13

On September 17th, Techonomy returns to Detroit and Wayne State University to continue a series of conversations and workshops we began last year at our first Detroit conference.

Techonomy 12

Techonomy focuses on how the exponential pace of technology progress makes possible a new world. A wave of accelerating change driven by technology’s advance is washing over our lives, bringing great potential for business and...