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Birkbeck College,
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Rich technological possibilities by 2025?
Ubiquitous surveillance,
Big Data: no secrets
Brain scanning:
consciousness decoded
Mind enhancing drugs
(or hardware stimulation)
Alternative currencies
(“Bitcoin on steroids”)
Google Glass: AR helmets,
virtual avatars
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Quantum computing:
Moore’s Law -> Rose’s Law
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Rich technological possibilities by 2025?
Ubiquitous surveillance,
Big Data: no secrets
Brain scanning:
consciousness decoded
Mind enhancing drugs
(or hardware stimulation)
Alternative currencies
(“Bitcoin on steroids”)
Nanomaterials – with
super-strength & resilience
3D fabrication, with Atomically
Precise Manufacturing
Ubiquitous solar energy:
major reduction of oil usage
Google Glass: AR helmets,
virtual avatars
Stem cell therapies, synthetic
organs, rejuvenation biotech
Largescale geoengineering
E.g. massive carbon removal
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Quantum computing:
Moore’s Law -> Rose’s Law
Synthetic meat: abolition of
animal suffering
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Rich technological possibilities by 2025?
Ubiquitous surveillance,
Big Data: no secrets
Brain scanning:
consciousness decoded
Mind enhancing drugs
(or hardware stimulation)
Alternative currencies
(“Bitcoin on steroids”)
Nanomaterials – with
super-strength & resilience
3D fabrication, with Atomically
Precise Manufacturing
Ubiquitous solar energy:
major reduction of oil usage
Google Glass: AR helmets,
virtual avatars
Stem cell therapies, synthetic
organs, rejuvenation biotech
IBM Watson in healthcare:
Most doctors redeployed
Automated robot workers:
nurses, soldiers…
Driverless cars: much
safer, greener transport
Credible cryonics: mass
market suspensions
Virtual companions more
compelling than real ones
Largescale geoengineering
E.g. massive carbon removal
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Quantum computing:
Moore’s Law -> Rose’s Law
IBM Watson in politics: Rational
resource management
Synthetic meat: abolition of
animal suffering
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Technological possibilities
Profound uncertainties
Timing?
Extent?
Unforeseen
consequences?
Fight or
embrace?
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Technological possibilities
Profound uncertainties
Swifter change & convergence
Nanotechnology
Synthetic biology Robotics
Regenerative medicine
Brain sciences
Ubiquitous computing
Artificial intelligence
Intelligence augmentation Genetic engineering
Geo-engineering
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Technological possibilities
Profound uncertainties
Swifter change & convergence
Escalating stress & strain
Pensions?
Oil reserves?
Economic stability?
Politics?
Medieval
philosophies?
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Technological possibilities
Profound uncertainties
Swifter change & convergence
Escalating stress & strain
Need for clear thinking
Academia?
Religion?
Media? Politics? Leaders?
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Technological possibilities
Profound uncertainties
Swifter change & convergence
Escalating stress & strain
Need for clear thinking
What is technically feasible?
What is desirable?
How can we enable & accelerate the desirable scenarios?
and
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Technological possibilities
Profound uncertainties
Swifter change & convergence
Escalating stress & strain
Need for clear thinking
Paths to 2025:
visions, nightmares, roadblocks, and plans
Transformations in thinking and lifestyle:
health, spirituality, organisations, politics,
transhumanism, and transcendence
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Sunday
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
David Wood
smartphone pioneer and
Chair, London Futurists
Predictions, good, bad, and ugly:
roadblocks en route to 2025
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Sonia Contera
co-director of the Oxford Martin
Programme on Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology in 2025
Impacts on health and biology
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Simon Bransfield-Garth
CEO Azuri Technologies
(em)Powering Africa
Power & knowledge economy
at scale to off-grid customers
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Mark Stevenson
Author:
An Optimist’s Tour of the Future
The Shift:
Why our systems are failing us
and what will replace them
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
David Levy
President of the International
Computer Games Association
Love and sex with robots:
The evolution of
human-robot relationships?
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Riva-Melissa Tez
co-Founder,
Kardashev Communications
The three obstacles that
prevent emerging technologies
from fulfilling their potential
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Paul Barnett
Founder & Acting CEO, The
Strategic Management Forum
Re-Thinking Strategy:
How organisations can thrive
during rapid change ahead
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Andrew Vladimirov
information security expert
and DIY brain hacker
The near future of
accessible cognition
enhancement and modification
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Aubrey de Grey
CSO and co-Founder,
SENS Research Foundation
When the days of aging
are clearly numbered,
how will humanity react?
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Marco Vega and Peter Brietbart
directors, British Institute of
Posthuman Studies (BIOPS)
Transhumanism and inequality
potential pitfalls of technology
distribution across societies
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Maneesh Juneja
Digital Health Futurist and
Ch. Leader, Health 2.0 London
Healthcare in the future:
will advancing technology
make doctors unemployed?
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Amon Kalkin
Founder, Zero State
The Wave of change:
Convergent technologies and
disruptive trends in 2025
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Calum Chace
Author of ‘Pandora’s brain’
Minds and AIs:
Six important questions
An urgent new “Apollo project”
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
David Pearce
co-Founder,
World Transhumanist Association
The Molecular Biology
of Spiritual Experience:
Beyond waking consciousness
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Rohit Talwar
Global Futurist and
Founder of Fast Future Research
Driving forces, global challenges
and potential disruptions
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Ben McLeish
The Zeitgeist Movement
Updating Technical Values
and Hacking Culture-Lag:
Approach to social management
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Natasha Vita-More
Chair, Humanity+
Transhumanism:
Designing transcendent
human enhancement
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute,
Oxford University
Smarter policy-making through
improved collective cognition?
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Saturday
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
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