# In a video Q&A interview, Professor Amy Webb offers insights on the scale of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S.

1 Faculty News March 31, 2020 ![The Verge logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/theverge.jpg?itok=TV-zqWUM)>

Excerpt from [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21201103/amy-webb-futurist-predictions-interview-vergecast-podcast) -- "We’re continuing our Vergecast interview series remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic and this week, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel sits down via Skype with [Amy Webb](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/amy-webb), the founder and CEO of The Future Today Institute. Amy is also a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business and recently came out with a book called The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity."

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