David Ewing Duncan

David Ewing Duncan is an American journalist, author, researcher and convener with a special emphasis on new discoveries and their implications in the life sciences; he also writes about robots and artificial intelligence. He is the best-selling author of ten books, published in 21 languages. His next book is Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human-Robot Futures (Dutton-Penguin). He also wrote the bestsellers Experimental Man and Calendar. He lives in San Francisco, California and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.He is the co-founder and Curator of Arc Fusion, which holds events around the world for leaders and thinkers on the “fusion” of health, IT, and biomedicine, and on the future of humans. Since 2014, Arc Fusion has held over 25 events in 9 cities in Europe and North America on issues ranging from AI and Health and the Future of Humans to the Cost of Healthcare and the Opioid Epidemic. He recently was a Health Strategist-in-Residence for IDEO. Duncan is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, a workspace co-operative that also includes Po Bronson, Caroline Paul and Tom Barbash, among others.