Byron Reese is the CEO and publisher of the technology research company Gigaom, and the founder of several high-tech companies. He has spent the better part of his life exploring the interplay of technology with human history. He is the author of the books "Infinite Progress"; "How Technology and the Internet Will End Ignorance, Disease, Hunger, Poverty, and War"; and “The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity,” which was on JP Morgan’s Summer Reading List from 2018 and is a Gary’s Book Club pick for CES 2019. Reese lives in Austin, Texas.
