Future Day is nigh – sporting a spectacular line of speakers! Agenda Venue: KPMG Melbourne – 727 Collins St [map link] – Collins Square – Level 36 Room 2 – Drew Berry – Biomedical Animator @ The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research – – Brock Bastian – Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences…
March Fourth – on March 4th for Science and the Future! Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwW3nIPQYwc A discussion on science advocacy & the future! David discussed how to think about strategic foresight (because it was kind of Future Day being March fourth) and science advocacy (especially in relation to the global science march). We also covered the kinds…
WHERE: The Bull & Bear Tavern – 347 Flinders Lane (btw Queen and Elizabeth streets) Melbourne WHEN – Wednesday March 1st 2017 See the Facebook event, and the Meetup Event. SCHEDULE * Noushin Shabab ‘The Evolution of Cybersecurity – Looking Towards 2045’ (Senior Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab) – 20 mins * Luke James (Science…
The panelists are Steve Fuller, David Wood, James Hughes Podcast of panel here Discussion points: Effective Futurist Politics Futurist caucuses within existing political establishments “the future of politics” in the sense of “Politics 2.0” Political struggles within transhumanism Transhumanist politicisation controversy Transhumanism definition controversies Comparison of futurist related political positions Transhumanist political organisations Transhumanist…
Future Day in Melbourne – Future Day is a way of focusing and celebrating the energy that more and more people around the world are directing toward creating a radically better future. WHAT: Fun! Also.. Clear thinking about the future – 3 speakers/demonstrators WHEN: Tues March 1st (2016) at 6.00pm for a 6.30pm start WHERE:…
Topics covered: Attitudes to the future, Prediction Markets, SciCast, Blockchain currency, Quadratic Voting, Artificial Intelligence Development etc. Notes on interview: People are engaged in extreme futures – heaven or hell scenarios – are people’s attraction towards, or engagement with certain futures informed by evolved biases? Prediction Markets in contrast to narratives about the future informed…
hy are nearly all our holidays focused on celebrating the past, or the cyclical processes of nature? Why not celebrate the amazing future we are collectively creating? That’s the concept behind a new global holiday, Future Day (March 1), conceived by AI researcher Dr. Ben Goertzel. Future Day 2012 gatherings were held in more than…
What sort of future do you want? Future Day is a celebration of imaginative and rational thinking about the future where you can participate. “Future Day is designed to center the impossible in the public mind once a year as a temptation too delicious to resist.” – Howard Bloom, Author and Publicist You can use…
