Our panel of global experts outlines the latest developments in artificial intelligence, politics, society and economics, analysing their impact on the world today and forecasting their effects on the world to come. Jamie Bartlett is one of the world’s leading thinkers on technology and radical politics. Ian Goldin is an authority on technological and economic change. Jonathan Haskel argues that a quiet revolution is taking place with the development of the intangible economy. Economist Stephen D King predicts what the end of globalisation means for the future of peace and prosperity. Rohan Silva is an expert on the future of IT.

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Jamie Bartlett is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos. He is the author of Radicals, The Dark Net and Orwell Versus the Terrorists.

Ian Goldin is Director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, and the University Professor of Globalisation and Development, as well as being a professorial fellow at the University’s Balliol College. His most recent books are The Age of Discovery and The Pursuit of Development.

Jonathan Haskel is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, London and Director of their Doctoral Programme at the School. He has taught at many prestigious universities here and in the USA.

Stephen D. King is a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and senior economic adviser at HSBC. His books include When the Money Runs Out and, most recently, Grave New World.

Rohan Silva, a former senior policy adviser to David Cameron and special adviser to George Osborne, has been instrumental in putting London on the world technology map. Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Index Ventures, he is one of co-founders of Second Home.