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What If the Future Needs Us?
The document discusses the convergence of conscious technology and mystic knowledge, predicting a post-information age where both the built environment and human cognition are enhanced through emerging technologies like AI, augmented reality, and synthetic biology. It also highlights the need for global regulations in technology, proposing a new international organization for scientific and technological risk management based on collective intelligence. The executive summary mentions various global challenges and emphasizes the importance of individual and collective intelligence in decision-making.
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- 1. WFS Panel: WhatIf the Future Needs Us? Conscious-TechnologyConscious-Technology Mystics & TechnocratsMystics & Technocrats Jerome C. Glenn The Millennium Project
- 2. Humans becoming cyborgs 1985 2000 2015 2030 Conscious-TechnologyConscious-Technology Built environment becomingintelligent When the distinction between these two trends becomes blurred, we will have reached the Post-Information Age Quality? Merging Mystic attitudes and Technocratic knowledge
- 3. Simplification/Generalization of History andan 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
- 4. Ifthen Nano- technology Synthetic Biology Internet of Things AIand 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
- 5. 1. Regulations areimpossible: 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?
- 6. Collective and IndividualIntelligence
- 7. How to IncreaseIndividual Intelligence (or Mental Performance) 1. Responding to feedback 2. Consistency of love, diversity of environment 3. Nutrition 4. Reasoning exercises 5. Believing it is possible (placebo effect) 6. Contact with intelligent people or via VR simulations 7. Software systems and gaming 8. Neuro-pharmacology (enhanced brain chemistry) 9. Memes on classroom walls and else where, for example: intelligence is sexy 10. Low stress, stimulating environments, with certain music, color, fragrances improves concentration and performance 11. Longer term: • Reverse engineering the brain • Applied Epigenetics and genetic engineering • Designer microbes to eat the plaque on neurons
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- 9. Improving integration andsynergies among… Collective Intelligence
- 10. Collective Intelligence • Itemerges 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.
- 11. An Application ofCollective Intelligence: Global Futures Intelligence System at www.themp.org
- 12. 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
- 13. 25 Years fromNow: What will be emerging? And from what?
- 14. What is thefirst thinking? And what does the second think about that? ?????????????
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Editor's Notes
- #6 International S&T Organization was created in this study: OTA revisited Evolves from an information system De facto regulator Aspects of ISTO: Form international guidelines with eminent experts Provide access to information about risk and opportunity Create a global S&T fund Produce annual Davos-like S&T forums Engage media and politicians to improve S&T discussion Create international treaties as consensus evolves