Chris Messina invented the Twitter hashtag and has spent the last decade being a game changer with many other technological innovations including Drupal, Firefox,  Flock, BarCamp, Google+, Uber Developer’s Platform and open web communities, to name but a few. He is also the Co-Founder of Molly.com.

Rubin and Messina discuss what AI will mean for living and learning with each other. Messina notes that we need to find ways to partner with our AI creations “to enhance life” and to create “more shared equity and prosperity”, so as to “enable humans to connect more deeply with one another.”

Chris Messina is the inventor of the hashtag for social media. The hashtag has made mass communication simpler, cheaper and more accessible. It’s universal usage has empowered instantaneous social movements via social media such as #metoo, #NeverAgain and #blacklivesmatter, to name a few.

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