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.

1. Conscious-Conscious-
TechnologyTechnology
Jerome C. Glenn
The Millennium Project
Moogfest/2014

2. One future of the arts/media/entertainmentOne 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 andconducted on next-generation mobile smart phones and
immersive screens that engage new audiencesimmersive 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.

3. 32 Seeds of the Future of Arts,
Media, and Entertainment
Cross-Impact
these 32
seeds to see
what new
creative
industries are
possible

4. Humans becoming
cyborgs
1985
2000
2015
2030
Conscious-TechnologyConscious-Technology
Built environment
becoming intelligent
When the distinction between
these two trends becomes
blurred, we will have reached the
Post-Information Age

5. Simplification/Generalization of History
and 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

6. 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

7. Collective and Individual Intelligence

8. Increasing Intelligence:
both Individual and Collective Intelligence

9. How to Increase Individual 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 viaVR 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

10. Global Overviews Needed

11. Improving integration and synergies among…
Collective Intelligence

12. 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.

13. An Application of Collective Intelligence:
Global Futures Intelligence System at www.themp.org

14. Vertical Farming,
Carbon Sink, Art
We need
bold thinking!
Art &
Music can
help!

15. Ifthen 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

16. Computational Science
Computational biology
Computational Chemistry
Computational
PhysicsAll Accelerating Innovations

17. Everyone on Internet is
surrounded by a 2+ billion
person market

18. One-Person
Businesses
Find markets
around the
world for what
you are
interested in
doing
not non-existing
jobs

19. … May become a TransInstitution
The Millennium
Project

20. 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.

21. How can sustainable development be achieved for
all while addressing global climate change?
1
How can everyone have sufficient clean water
without conflict?
2
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?
6
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?
15
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

22. 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

23. MP Futuristic Management
1. Hierarchy
2. Networks
3. Intersection of
Networks: Nodes
4. Connecting Nodes
into Fields of Play
5. Connecting Fields of Play

24. 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. 25 Years from Now:
What will be emerging? And from what?

26. What is the first thinking? And what does the
second think about that?
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27. For further information:
Jerome.Glenn@
Millennium-Project.org
202-686-5179
StateoftheFuture.org
themp.org
Global Futures
Intelligence System