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Adam Dorr, RethinkX
"Rethinking Humanity: Reasons For Optimism Amidst the Disruptions"
September 20, 2022
Utah Tech University
About Adam Dorr
Adam Dorr, the Director of Research at the RethinkX think tank, visits Utah Tech for a day of small group interactions on Tuesday, September 20. His public talk, Rethinking Humanity: Reasons for Optimism Amidst the Disruptions is at 4 PM in the Zion Room (Holland Centennial Commons 537). The talk is open to the public.
Dorr is an environmental social scientist and technology theorist whose recent RethinkX publications have focused on the disruption of the global energy sector by new energy generation and storage technologies, as well as the implications of the energy, transportation, and food disruptions for climate change.
Dorr regularly presents RethinkX's work on stage, radio, podcasts, and television and has more than a decade of teaching, lecturing, and public speaking experience. He completed his MS at the University of Michigan's School for the Environment and Sustainability and his PhD at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs.
About RethinkX
RethinkX is an independent think tank that analyzes and forecasts the speed and scale of technology-driven disruption and its implications across society. The organization produces impartial, data-driven analyses that identify pivotal choices to be made by investors, business, policy and civic leaders. Learn more about RethinkX here.
The organization's book, Rethinking Humanity, is available for free download here.
Scott Hartley
Scott is a venture capitalist and author of The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World. Scott spoke at Utah Tech on February 10, 2022 and was the inaugural speaker in the series. Watch his talk here.