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Future Day - Tom Haynes - Catalyst for industry transformation

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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2013 · Science & Technology

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Future Day - http://future-day.org
Future Day Melbourne 2013 is a joint project of Amplify, Second Tree, Humanity+ and Singularity Summit AU.
Address: Lev 4, 750 Collins St Docklands.

Ruff Agenda:

5:00pm for drinks nibbles and a change to mingle. A time for Networking (may have a formal networking session)
6:30pm Welcome: Adam Ford, Director Humanity+
6:45pm Activity: Peter Ellyard -- Rapid prototyping the Future (extremely participatory)
7:15pm Presentation: Mark Ciotola (formely at NASA) -- "The Future of Space Exploration"
8:15pm Presentation: James Newton-Thomas (Engineer, Field Roboticist) -- "Automation, and The Future of Work"
9:00pm Wrap up and Thankyou!

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 Future Day to harness energy, and help spread the importance of future thinking to a wider audience.   Much like Earth Day has.  Today with Earth Day there are campaigns to turn off lights, to be more aware of energy consumption, and focus on ecological problems.  We hope that Future Day will influence people to take action for a better long term future.
Lets raise a toast to our power to create dramatic new solutions to the problems of today — and let's have fun in the process. Let's celebrate the amazing opportunities we have right now to work towards a beneficial future!

 

The human species is at a unique stage in history - scientific and technological progress is moving fast and is accelerating dramatically.  Ray Kurzweil predicts that technological paradigm shifts will become increasingly common, leading to "technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history".

 

But what kind of change can we expect?  There are many transformative technologies that look like they will have huge impacts on the way we live.  What sort of future do you want?  If you think through the possibilities of a particular technology, you can better appreciate the consequences of using it.  Future Day is a celebration of imaginative and rational thinking about the future where you can participate.  In the words of Howard Bloom, author of Global Brain: "Future Day is designed to center the impossible in the public mind once a year as a temptation too delicious to resist."

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