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I covered tech and the prequel to AI – the internet - as a Bloomberg financial journalist. I had a front row seat on early AI at IBM when the company built Deep Blue to play Garry Kasparov at chess. I’ve seen this movie before. The questions we asked ourselves during the internet era are eerily similar to the AI questions we ask today – how will we use it, how will we make money, where are humans in the process?
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Logline:Â A CIA operative-turned speechwriter navigates Washington, Silicon Valley and Africa and learns something about himself as the U.S. and China race for dominance of rare-earth metals.
You're only a child once. Capturing the world through young eyes is difficult. Backpacks and Baguettes attempts to better understand what children think, see, feel, and smell when they travel. Everything is new, and everyone is a possible friend.
The book is reminder of what it was like to be in the world before the pandemic hit - the sound of mopeds in Vietnam, the smell of the chicken turning on a spit at a French market, a water fight in Bangkok, mushroom hunting in the hills of Tuscany, the feel of fog on your face in the San Francisco bay - human contact.
Your guide is Sam, a half-American/half British-boy who so far in his young life has been lucky to grow up in Paris and Washington, D.C.. Sam loves soccer and food and is curious about how people in other countries live their lives. He thinks graffiti and street art are better than postcards to truly understand a place. He's even included some authentic global graffiti in the book for you to color. He's also left space on the back of each image for you to draw your own graffiti or take notes.
Sam's stories are about asking questions until you're exhausted. They're about not caring what people think. They're about smiling and laughing until it hurts and playing until you scrape your knees. They're about letting your imagination run wild. They're about realizing in one breath that children are different, but ultimately the same all around the world. They're about being a kid once.
Bandwidth - financial & tech thriller
Bandwidth captures the two dominant threads of the first decade of the 21st century - greed and terrorism.
Several years after the dot.com funeral pyre, Hayden Campbell - a former CIA operative turned speechwriter - finds himself working for the sixth richest man in the world, Aaron Cannondale. From his perch, Hayden watches as a Dutch student discovers a technology to send voice, video and data through Europe's municipal water systems.
Bandwidth takes us from the stoops of Brooklyn, to Moscow and Zurich, to the bike paths of Amsterdam and the backrooms of Brussels and Frankfurt, to Afghanistan and the hazy diwans of Yemen.
Dazzled by his new boss but harboring a soft spot for the Agency, Hayden allows himself to be pulled back in for one more run - a run that reminds him that people aren't what they seem, a run that reinforces his belief that greed has no sell-by date.
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“If I ever had to write a speech for a best man toast, or for my company's annual shareholder meeting, or for a peace treaty at the UN, I would ask Dan Morrison for help. It's not just that Dan has a delightful way with words (he’s been a speechwriter, Pulitzer-nominated journalist, a corporate communication strategist, a government policy expert, and a novelist). It's that he has an incredibly wide-ranging intellect that I envy and covet. His years of world travel and deep immersion in culture -- from Silicon Valley to Washington to Europe to Asia -- give him a cosmopolitan perspective and an empathy for all points of view.
His love of literature and history also give him insights into human nature, an invaluable asset if your job is persuasion. I worked with Dan as a journalist where we often teamed up to write about telecoms and this new-fangled thing called the internet. It was always a pleasure to work with him, not just because of his talents, but because of his sense of humor and camaraderie. I would recommend Dan unreservedly as a communication and policy expert. In addition, I highly recommend you take Dan as your guide if you need to navigate through pubs, souks, embassies, battlefields, ministries, archives, arrondissements, pampas or alps.”
“Dan's strategic advice is truly helpful for EU policymakers. He contrasted how the U.S. and the EU are approaching AI innovation and regulation. He shared best practices in how to integrate AI into the workplace and academia from his personal experience as Founder and Managing Partner of StoryVenture, and as an adjunct professor. He counseled on steps that public institutions should take to lead with AI adoption and how to bring employees along on the AI journey. Dan's advice was particularly relevant because of his deep experience as a global communications and public affairs executive working and living in both the U.S. and Europe. He lives at the nexus of business, geo-politics/economics, thought leadership, tech & AI. I can't recommend him more highly."
Jorgen GrenDirector, Technology DGT, European Commission"Dan's counsel was invaluable for the IMF media team, and his range is impressive. He covered everything from new power vs. old power, the new media landscape, mis/disinformation, building trust, persuasion, thought leadership, positioning communications and public affairs professionals as leaders of AI integration, and viewing AI as the ultimate stakeholder. Dan has a rare ability to thread the private sector, government, the multilateral world, tech, international and domestic. We'd definitely work with Dan again."
Pierre MejlakChief of Media Relations & Social Outreach, IMFBy fostering effective communication among team members, organizations can create a cohesive and collaborative environment where ideas flow freely, feedback is constructive, and goals are aligned.
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