David Weinberger and Unanticipation

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Opening Possibilities in the Unanticipated World

David Weinberger is a writer and pioneer who has never stopped learning, and never stopped sharing what he learns with us. He is is a senior researcher at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

From June 2018 to June 2020, he was embedded in Google’s People + AI Research (PAIR), a machine learning research group located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a part-time writer-in-residence.

Weinberger has been involved in Internet policy and advocacy. He was Senior Internet Advisor to Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign, and was on technology policy advisory councils for both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. From 2010-12 he was a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, working with the e-Diplomacy Group.

From the Cluetrain Manifesto in 2001, to Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility in 2019, his books have helped shape many people’s ideas about technology and how our lives.

He helps us understand the effect of machine learning on our lives and in general, even though we do not understand it – nor does anyone! That’s not the point. The point is to learn to ensure that it respects our human values.

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