TED2017: The future you 4/20/17, 12:07 PM ] Lisa Genova wields her ability to tell a story and her knowledge of the human brain to talk about medical conditions like Alzheimer’s in 4 ? warmly human terms. Her writing, often focusing on those who are misunderstood, explores the lives of people living with neurological diseases and disorders. A bestselling author, her work has been transformed into an Oscar-winning film, Still Alice, but the real triumph is % \) Genova’s ability to help us empathize with a person’s journey we otherwise couldn’t even begin to understand. : Her newest book, /nside the O’Briens, is about Huntington’s disease. lisagenova.com @LisaGenova a Robin Hanson ra \ Economist, social scientist ( cay ' Does humanity have a future as uploaded minds? In his work, Robin Hanson asks this and other extra-large questions. 7 = 7 In his book, The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth, Robin Hanson re-imagines humanity's role as our tech i becomes smarter. A pioneer in prediction markets, also known as information markets and idea futures, Hanson has been known since the uN ~ ie 1980s for taking the very very long view on topics as varied as (a selected list) spatial product competition, health incentive contracts, ¥\ ] group insurance, product bans, evolutionary psychology and bioethics of health care, voter information incentives, incentives to fake ( N\ } expertise, Bayesian classification, agreeing to disagree, self-deception in disagreement, probability elicitation, wiretaps, image baat ; | reconstruction, the history of science prizes, reversible computation, the origin of life, the survival of humanity, very long term economic growth, growth given machine intelligence, and interstellar colonization. Meanwhile, he has developed new technologies for conditional, combinatorial, and intermediated trading, and studied insider trading, manipulation and other foul play. Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University