Select Media and Press Coverage
2021
Profoundly Pointless podcast — Futurist Richard Yonck: Episode 179
Patti Payne: Futurist Richard Yonck describes tech’s vast influence
Teaching artificial intelligence right from wrong, GeekWire
Google Scholar – Publications and Citations
Q&A with Amazon Alexa chief Rohit Prasad on the future of ambient computing, GeekWire
Carbon and Silicon: The future of humanity in the smart technology era – IITPSA webinar
Utopia or dystopia? Here are two (very different) visions of the world in 2050, Wired
Deep futures and Homo Technologicus – Exponential Minds podcast
2020
EP 79: Co-Evolving With Our Technology” – FuturePod podcast
“Future Minds, with Richard Yonck” – Seeking Delphi podcast #50
“Emerging Intelligence: An Interview with Richard Yonck”, Town Hall Seattle
The Drones Were Ready for This Moment, New York Times
The next generation of hackers may target your medical implants, Salon
Virtual reality check: Futurists dissect Amazon’s new ‘Upload’, GeekWire
‘After Shock’ Review: The Future of Forecasting, Wall Street Journal
2019
“How technology transforms human intelligence”, TED Talk
“Exploring Blurring the Lines Between Humans, AR and VR”, The Times of Israel
Author Page, Simon and Schuster
“Meet Your Keynote Speaker”, Right! Systems Executive Tech Exchange
2018
“Once More With Feeling: Teaching Empathy to Machines”, Wall Street Journal
“AI and Emotions”, Communications of the ACM
“The Coming Era of Emotional Machines”, Psychology Today
2017
Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Could Be the Next Big Movement, Inc
Ray Kurzweil on How We’ll End Up Merging With Our Technology, New York Times Book Review
“Richard Yonck: Heart of the Machine”, Ada’s Technical Books
“Richard Yonck: Artificial Emotional Intelligence”, The Stranger
“Welcome to the Emotion Economy”, Fast Company
“Tech Is Becoming Emotionally Intelligent, and It’s Big Business”, Singularity Hub
2016
“HBO’s ‘Westworld’ raises disturbing questions about life, AI and more”, Los Angeles Daily News
“A Robot May Be Training To Do Your Job Don’t Panic”, NY Times
2015
“‘Optocapacitance’ Shines New Light On the Brain”, Scientific American
“When a Robot Comes to Town”, WTIA Blog
2014
“How I Stopped Worrying About the Future and Learned to Love the Robot Apocalypse”, Ignite Seattle
“How Your Computer Will Read You Like A Book–And Then Sell You Stuff”, Fast Company
