Futurist Bernard Marr reflects on how fast an industry can really move before something breaks. Vishal Kirti of Cisco Systems gets into the silicon behind the internet, Agnes Heftberger talks about Germany's path to becoming an AI powerhouse, and half a dozen other engineers and leaders present a genuinely different way of seeing where this is all heading.

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