Toshi Anders Hoo is a futurist, technologist, researcher, and the founding principal of Possibility Spaces, a design strategy studio helping organizations navigate and collaborate with emerging technologies. He spent a decade as Senior Research Director at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, where he founded the Emerging Media Lab. He also served as a media technology advisor to Ray Kurzweil, co-producing and directing Kurzweil’s documentary The Singularity Is Near. His work has been featured globally, including at the United Nations, TED, SXSW, Intel, Google, and the Dubai Future Forum.
Summit 2026
Friday ·
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Salon
The Green Room
Our mental models are made of metaphors ("How is this like that?"). When facing a new and confounding technology, we naturally search for patterns in history to make sense of not only the present, but where we are headed. In this conversational salon, Toshi seeds a shared dialogue on how we might look back to look forward, examining how our previous models might be useful, and which assumptions no longer hold.