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We are merging with technology. We will become “Conscious-Technology” beings. Google Glass, Internet of Things, heart pacemakers, the works! Voice recognition and voice synthesis with artificial intelligence imbedded through the built environment will make inanimate objects seem conscious. We will import advance tech in and on our bodies and export our consciousness to technology. These imports/export will seem to merge into a continuum of consciousness and technology. The quality of this merger will depend on how well we can blend our mystic-self with our technocratic self, as individuals and as a species. By mystic I simply mean one whose primary focus is improving life by enhancing consciousness; by technocrat I simply mean one whose primary focus for improving life is with new technologies and policies. We are all part mystic and part technocrat, but we tend to be more of one than the other. Seeking harmony, balance, synergy between the two seems right to me. Like the musician, instrument, and music merge in a great performance. Merging the attitudes of the mystic toward life with the technocratic’s knowledge of life makes life work and be worthwhile. Arts, media, and music technologies can be designed and used from a mystic attitude. Experiencing performances of such technologies should enhance our consciousness. From such enhanced consciousness new technologies can be conceived. And so on to become a more aesthetic future conscious-technology civilization. The explosive, accelerating growth of knowledge in a rapidly changing and increasingly interdependent world gives us so much to know about so many things that it seems impossible to keep up. At the same time, we are flooded with so much trivial news that serious attention to serious issues gets little interest, and too much time is wasted going through useless information.
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Conscious-Conscious-TechnologyTechnology
Jerome C. GlennThe Millennium Project
Moogfest/2014
One future of the arts/media/entertainment One future of the arts/media/entertainment
is that it will be global, participatory, is that it will be global, participatory,
tele-present, holographic, augmented realitytele-present, holographic, augmented reality
conducted on next-generation mobile smart phones and conducted on next-generation mobile smart phones and
immersive screens that engage new audiences immersive screens that engage new audiences
in the ways they prefer to be reached and involved.in the ways they prefer to be reached and involved.
32 Seeds of the Future of Arts, Media, and Entertainment
Cross-Impact these 32 seeds to see what new creative industries are possible
Humans becoming cyborgs
19852000
20152030
Conscious-TechnologyConscious-Technology
Built environment becoming intelligent
When the distinction between these two trends becomes blurred, we will have reached the
Post-Information Age
Simplification/Generalization of Historyand an Alternative Future
Age /Element Product Power Wealth Place War Time
Agricultural Extraction
Food/Res Religion Land Earth/Res Location Cyclical
Industrial Machine Nation-State
Capital Factory Resources Linear
Information Info/serv Corporation Access Office Perception Flexible
Conscious-Technology
Linkage Individual Being Motion Identity Invented
ever-increasing ways to improve the human condition
The World is in a Race
Between implementing
and the seemingly ever-increasing complexity and scale of global problems.
Conscious-Technology, Increasing Individual and Collective
Intelligence, and Entertainment can help…
Win the Race
Collective and Individual Intelligence
Increasing Intelligence:both Individual and Collective Intelligence
How to Increase Individual Intelligence(or Mental Performance)
1. Responding to feedback2. Consistency of love, diversity of environment3. Nutrition4. Reasoning exercises5. Believing it is possible (placebo effect) 6. Contact with intelligent people or via VR simulations7. Software systems and gaming8. Neuro-pharmacology (enhanced brain chemistry)9. Memes on classroom walls and else where, for example: intelligence is sexy10. Low stress, stimulating environments, with certain music, color, fragrances improves
concentration and performance11. Longer term:
• Reverse engineering the brain• Applied Epigenetics and genetic engineering• Designer microbes to eat the plaque on neurons
Global Overviews Needed
Improving integration and synergies among…
Collective Intelligence
Collective Intelligence
• It emerges from the integration and synergies among• data/info/knowledge• software/hardware• experts and others with insight
• that continually learns from feedback
• to produce just in time knowledge for better decisions
• than these elements acting alone.
An Application of Collective Intelligence:
Global Futures Intelligence System at www.themp.org
Vertical Farming, Carbon Sink, Art
We need bold thinking!
Art & Music can help!
If\then Nano-technology
Synthetic Biology
Internet of Things
3D Printing Conscious-Technology
Augmented Reality
Nano-technology xxx Synthetic Biology xxx Internet of Things xxx 3D Printing
xxx Conscious-Technology xxx Augmented Reality xxx
Emerging Technologies Table
Computational Science
Computational biology
Computational Chemistry
Computational PhysicsAll Accelerating Innovations
Everyone on Internet is surrounded by a 2+ billion person market
One-Person Businesses
Find markets around the world for what you are interested in doing
not non-existing jobs
… May become a TransInstitution
The Millennium Project
50 Millennium Project Nodes...
are groups of experts and institutions that connect global and local views in:
Nodes identify participants, translate questionnaires and reports, and conduct interviews, special research, workshops, symposiums, and advanced training.
How can sustainable development be achieved for all while addressing global climate change?
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How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict?
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How can population growth and resources be brought into balance?
3
How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes?
4
How can policymaking be made more sensitive to global long-term perspectives?
5
How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone?
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How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor?
7
How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune microorganisms be reduced?
8
How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and institutions change?
9
How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction?
10
How can the changing status of women improve the human condition?
11
How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises?
12
How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently?
13
How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human condition?
14
How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions?
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How can sustainable development be achieved for all while addressing global climate change?
How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict?
How can population growth and resources be brought into balance?
How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes?
How can decisionmaking be enhanced by integrating improved global foresight during unprecedented accelerating change?How can the global convergence of
information and communications technologies work for everyone?
How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor?
How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune microorganisms be reduced?
How can education make humanity more intelligent, knowledgeable, and wise enough to address its global challenges?
How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction?
How can the changing status of women improve the human condition?
How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently?
How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human condition?
How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions?
How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises?
Scanning Framework: 15 Global Challenges–Our Agenda
Executive Summary
Chapter 1 – 15 Global Challenges
Chapter 2 – Hidden Hunger
Chapter 3 – Coast Zones
Chapter 4 – Lone Wolf and SIMAD
Chapter 5 – Global Futures Intelligence System
256 Pages Available at Moogfest $39.95
MP Futuristic Management
1. Hierarchy
2. Networks
3. Intersection of Networks: Nodes
4. Connecting Nodes into Fields of Play
5. Connecting Fields of Play
How can you & you & arts/music participate?
• Join the Arts/Media Node of the Millennium Project • Improve the aesthetics of global futures research• Engage the public in what is important• Show how the world can work for all• Counter the mental poison polluting the collective unconscious• Provide alternatives to trivial media wasting the talents of
creative people• If Al Gore can get an academy award for a ppt, what could the
creative talent in this room do?
25 Years from Now: What will be emerging? And from what?
What is the first thinking? And what does the second think about that?
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For further information:
202-686-5179
StateoftheFuture.org
themp.orgGlobal Futures Intelligence System
