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Humanity+ San Francisco 2012: Writing the Future — talk abstracts. Peter Rothman October 27, 2012 Humanity+ San Francisco 2012: Writing the Future “Writing the Future” focuses on how emerging and converging sciences and technologies are the tools for designing our future, based on the advances in robotics, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, human enhancement, brain-computer integration, regenerative medicine, and radical life extension. Come and join us and register before November 10 to take advantage of early bird specials. The conference will explore the world of media and communicating transhumanism. The aim is to encourage refined communication about the future in creative ways, and thereby promote serious attention to the opportunities and risks we are facing. Speakers and attendees will discuss topics such as: What are we working on? The following abstracts give you a flavor of some of the talks which will be presented.

Get your tickets here: Aubrey de Grey Ben Goertzel David Pearce James Hughes Ramez Naam. MetaFLUX Recon. Home | Foresight. Futures Beyond Dystopia – Creating Social Foresight | Foresight. Foreword to Futures Beyond Dystopia – Creating Social Foresight Ken Wilber Ah, to see the future, yes? Omen readers, entrail interpreters, soothsayers, psychics and scientists, all want a glimpse of tomorrow. Well, so do I, which is to say, we are all human. One of the great difficulties with Futures Studies is that it is the future of human beings we are particularly interested in, and in order to understand the future of humans, we obviously must understand their present.

Enter Integral Futures Studies. This integral map is just a map, but it is biggest map we’ve ever had; and the evidence strongly suggests that this integral map is much more effective and accurate in understanding human beings today…and, therefore, presumably tomorrow, if we are careful in exactly how we use it. Richard Slaughter has done a superb job in conveying the essentials of this integral map and its application to Futures Studies.

Integral Futures Studies is literally just beginning. Annotated Bibliography. The future of everything. Architectural Technologist - The Future and predictions - Konstrukshon CPD Weblog. Digg I’m reading a most fascinating book, it’s an old book, written in 1962 by a visionary of the time and now, Arthur C Clarke, the book is called “Profiles of the future“, in retrospect some of his visions I can look at now and see where he was going, but history shows that he was a little wrong in many ways, but nearly so right in many areas, and so right in a small area.Written in 1962, it show how far ahead he was of his time. The point is to be in this position, Arthur C Clark had to leave conventional thinking behind and it’s evident in this book, he thought well out side the box, but with a brilliant scientific mind, that allowed his style of thinking.

I can’t recoment the book enough, I found it in an old paperback book stall, and I imagine thats the only place left you will find it. My point, use the Architectural bace you have to dream up new products, ways of building, construction techniques, don’t let science, or current practice get in the way, dream and work up the idea. Future Timeline | Technology | Singularity | 2020 | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events. Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil. American author, inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil has become well known for predicting the future of artificial intelligence and the human race. His first book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990, put forth his theories on the results of the increasing use of technology and predicted the explosive growth in the internet, among other predictions. Later works, 1999's The Age of Spiritual Machines and 2005's The Singularity is Near outlined other theories including the rise of clouds of nano-robots (nanobots) called foglets and the development of Human Body 2.0 and 3.0, whereby nanotechnology is incorporated into many internal organs.

Accuracy of predictions[edit] The Age of Intelligent Machines[edit] Perhaps most significantly, Kurzweil foresaw the explosive growth in worldwide Internet use that began in the 1990s. The Age of Spiritual Machines[edit] The Singularity Is Near[edit] Other sources[edit] Ray Kurzweil's response[edit] Future predictions[edit] Early 2000s[edit] Utopia and Dystopia - Possible Futures. Tomorrow's Thoughts Today.