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Presented by Jerome Glenn “The future doesn’t need us,” Bill Joy said in his famous 2001 WIRED article. He warned us of the threats posed by advanced technologies, and suggested we should slow down their advancement. Many today agree with Joy. The evolution of our knowledge about nature and the evolution of nature itself have come to a historic crossroads, others claim. It took billions of years for nature to produce our universe, a planet called Earth and a living species able to ask questions and create answers. It took humans just decades to develop a technology to bring our collective knowledge back to life deep within the brains of super computers and show it on the screens of Ipads and smart phones. With digital technology, an astonishing transformation is taking place right in front of our eyes. Since the Big Bang, nature has been the sole creator of the future. Until humans came along and unraveled nature’s tricks, enough so to take away its monopoly, and bring us to the most important crossroads in the history of our universe.
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WFS Panel: What If the Future Needs Us?
Conscious-Technology Conscious-Technology
Mystics & TechnocratsMystics & TechnocratsJerome C. Glenn
The Millennium Project
Humans becoming cyborgs
19852000
20152030
Conscious-Conscious-TechnologyTechnology
Built environment becoming intelligent
When the distinction between these two trends becomes blurred, we will have reached the
Post-Information Age
Quality? Merging Mystic attitudes and Technocratic knowledge
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
If\then Nano-technology
Synthetic Biology
Internet of Things
AI and Robotics
Conscious-Technology
Augmented Reality
Nano-technology xxx Synthetic Biology xxx Internet of Things xxx AI and Robotics
xxx Conscious-Technology xxx Augmented Reality xxx
Emerging Technologies Table
1. Regulations are impossible: drives research underground; regulators cannot keep up with advances; best you can do is educate and train scientists in ethics and self-manage risks.
2. Regulations are necessary: Scale of potential dangers are too great and global not to regulate; requires global systems to assess risks; design regulations and enforce agreements
3. Potential resolution: How Create S&T Collective Intelligence System by a new International S&T Organization (ISTO) to expose all insights in real-time
Controlling S&T Risks?
Collective and Individual 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
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
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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themp.orgGlobal Futures Intelligence System
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