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What Do We Think Of The Future
Michael Rogers
Columnist, MSNBC's The Practical Futurist, & Futurist-in-Residence of The New York Times
- Award-winning journalist and novelist with over thirty years of professional speaking experience
- Former vice president of The Washington Post's new media division
- Co-founder of Outside magazine and former writer for Rolling Stone
- Dynamic speaker helping businesses think about the future and the effect of technology their organization
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Michael Rogers is an author, futurist and technology pioneer who also serves as futurist-in-residence for The New York Times. His consultancy, Practical Futurist, helps businesses and organizations worldwide think about the future.
He has worked with companies ranging from FedEx, Boeing and GE to Microsoft, Pfizer and American Express. He addresses groups ranging from venture capitalists and corporate executives to educators, students and the general public. He is also a regular guest on radio and television, including Good Morning America, the Today Show, PBS, CNN and the History Channel.
Rogers began his career as a writer for Rolling Stone and went on to co-found Outside magazine. He then launched Newsweek’s technology column, winning numerous journalism awards, including a National Headliner Award for coverage of the Chernobyl meltdown.
For ten years he was vice president of The Washington Post Company's new media division, guiding both the newspaper and its sister publication Newsweek into the new century, as well as serving as editor and general manager of Newsweek.com where he won the Distinguished Online Service award from the National Press Club for coverage of 9/11.
His work in interactive media ranges from the first Lucasfilm computer game and interactive CD-ROMs to Prodigy, America Online and finally the Internet. He has received several patents for multimedia storytelling techniques, and is listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. In 2007 he was named to the magazine industry Digital Hall of Fame, and in 2009 he received the World Technology Network Award for Lifetime Achievement in Media and Journalism.
Rogers studied physics and creative writing at Stanford University with additional training in finance and management at the Stanford Business School Executive Program. He is also a best-selling novelist whose fiction explores the human impact of technology. He lives in New York City where he is working on book and television projects.
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