Josh is a hacker who specializes in translating technology insights into actionable strategies. He speaks, writes, and consults for businesses from that startup down the street to the biggest multinationals on the planet, focusing on using new and emerging technologies to create exponential improvements using the recently possible.
“Josh Klein is the quintessential hacker - a cross-disciplinary, pattern recognizing polymath who takes his greatest joy from combining the unexpected and seeing the result work in new and better ways.”
Josh Klein is a passionate hacker of all things. He examines systems, he takes them apart, and he puts different pieces together to produce something new and more effective. He hacks. Everything. His list includes social systems, computer networks, institutions, consumer hardware, animal behavior, and many more. Josh knows that the greatest innova-tions come from rethinking ordinary situations, or hacking; a do-it yourself movement with roots inside the engineering community.
Josh started as a technology hacker in his parent’s basement and ended up working with leaders at the upper echelon of business, government, and internet security. Along the way it became clear that a tipping point in new technology was changing commerce as we knew it in a myriad of ways.
From black market economies to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, from the radical departures in exchange and marketing enabled by Big Data to the as-yet-unrealized impact of 3D printing and the Internet of Things, Josh has specialized in translating technology insights into actionable strategies for business leaders.
Klein's speeches and articles frequently center on hacking as a theme, in which he reappropriates the term from its common misconception (as executing malicious computer at-tacks) to instead emphasize the unorthodox reworking of existing systems (systems thinking) for mutual benefit.
Television:
Klein's first television series, The Link, premiered on The National Geographic Channel on Friday May 25, 2012. The show is about the history of human innovation, tracing the connections between the world's greatest inventions in art, science, medicine, finance and more, from ancient times up to the present day. Each episode spans a dozen or so technologies, and traces how each one was dependent on the capabilities provided by the one before it. After that, Klein hosted a short series call Smart China, debuting on Discovery Channel Saturday September 3, 2016. The show is about world changing innovations created across China and their implications for improving the environment, cities, travel, and more. Klein also co-produced the series Game Vision, for Discovery Channel, which debuted on Saturday September 16, 2017. The series is focused on how games have evolved throughout history and are likely to evolve into the future, with an emphasis on sociocultural impact, technology, and the ways that games bleed over into our everyday lives.
