The Dennis Gabor Lecture 2024 –

Imperial College

December 4

408, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Why does it take so long to build future technologies? Put another way, where’s my flying car? Nicole Kobie will reveal the hidden challenges to building the future, explore why it’s not just technical hurdles holding back ideas like driverless cars and humanoid robots, and debunk the hype that fuels the technology industry, exploring why simpler answers to problems may sometimes be better solutions — and find out how you could have had flying cars several decades ago.

About the speaker

Nicole Kobie is a London-based technology and science journalist, and the author of The Long History of the Future. Her bylines appear in Wired, PC Pro, and publications as wide ranging as Teen Vogue, New Scientist and GQ.