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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


Quantum computing:

Moore’s Law -> Rose’s Law


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Brain scanning:






Nanomaterials – with

super-strength & resilience

3D fabrication, with Atomically

Precise Manufacturing

Ubiquitous solar energy:

major reduction of oil usage


virtual avatars

Stem cell therapies, synthetic

organs, rejuvenation biotech

Largescale geoengineering

E.g. massive carbon removal


Quantum computing:


Synthetic meat: abolition of

animal suffering


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Brain scanning:






Nanomaterials – with

super-strength & resilience

3D fabrication, with Atomically

Precise Manufacturing

Ubiquitous solar energy:

major reduction of oil usage


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


Quantum computing:


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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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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Escalating stress & strain

Pensions?

Oil reserves?

Economic stability?

Politics?

Medieval

philosophies?


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Need for clear thinking

Academia?

Religion?

Media? Politics? Leaders?


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What is technically feasible?

What is desirable?

How can we enable & accelerate the desirable scenarios?

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Paths to 2025:

visions, nightmares, roadblocks, and plans

Transformations in thinking and lifestyle:

health, spirituality, organisations, politics,

transhumanism, and transcendence


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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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Sunday

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Saturday

afternoon

Sunday


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March 22-23, 2014

Birkbeck College,

Torrington Square


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