Tim Pierson: Special Ops Officer to Ivy League Professor

Tim is cool. At least, if you think it’s cool to fly fighter jets in covert operations, head security for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and become a computer science professor working on big tech challenges. Meet Tim Pierson. Tim Pierson is interesting: Air force Officer, Special Ops, Metropolitan Museum of Art, management consultant at McKinsey, hedge fund manager, and computer scientist. Tim’s done – and is doing – all of these things. Oh, and he has an MBA and Ph.D. too. The Sydcast is all about telling a story, and that’s what we do with Tim, from a kid in rural Michigan who’s the first in his family to go to college all the way to becoming a professor at an Ivy League university conducting research on how technology is infiltrating every aspect of our lives. Listen in as we talk about all this, plus what’s wrong with self-driving cars and how technology might affect how our brains even function in the future.