A preview of the "Anticipating 2025" conference to be held in London on 22-23 March 2-14. The conference is jointly hosted by London Futurists and Humanity+. For more details and to register, see http://anticipating2025.com/registration/. For the video version of this presentation, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2dihQs-7f4

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Anticipati
Preview
anticipating2025.com
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ng 2025
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Saturday
morning
Saturday
afternoon
Sunday
morning
Sunday
Speakers and running order
afternoon
subject to change
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#LonFut
Rich technological possibilities by 2025?
Quantum computing:
Moore’s Law -> Rose’s Law
Google Glass: AR helmets,
virtual avatars
Ubiquitous surveillance,
Big Data: no secrets
Brain scanning:
consciousness decoded
Mind enhancing drugs
(or hardware stimulation)
Alternative currencies
(“Bitcoin on steroids”)
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4. #LonFut
anticipating2025.com
Rich technological possibilities by 2025?
Quantum computing:
Moore’s Law -> Rose’s Law
Largescale geoengineering
E.g. massive carbon removal
Google Glass: AR helmets,
virtual avatars
Ubiquitous solar energy:
major reduction of oil usage
Ubiquitous surveillance,
Big Data: no secrets
Nanomaterials – with
super-strength & resilience
Brain scanning:
consciousness decoded
3D fabrication, with Atomically
Precise Manufacturing
Mind enhancing drugs
(or hardware stimulation)
Stem cell therapies, synthetic
organs, rejuvenation biotech
Alternative currencies
(“Bitcoin on steroids”)
Synthetic meat: abolition of
animal suffering
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5. #LonFut
anticipating2025.com
Rich technological possibilities by 2025?
Quantum computing:
Moore’s Law -> Rose’s Law
Largescale geoengineering
E.g. massive carbon removal
Driverless cars: much
safer, greener transport
Google Glass: AR helmets,
virtual avatars
Ubiquitous solar energy:
major reduction of oil usage
Automated robot workers:
nurses, soldiers…
Ubiquitous surveillance,
Big Data: no secrets
Nanomaterials – with
super-strength & resilience
IBM Watson in healthcare:
Most doctors redeployed
Brain scanning:
consciousness decoded
3D fabrication, with Atomically
Precise Manufacturing
IBM Watson in politics: Rational
resource management
Mind enhancing drugs
(or hardware stimulation)
Stem cell therapies, synthetic
organs, rejuvenation biotech
Credible cryonics: mass
market suspensions
Alternative currencies
(“Bitcoin on steroids”)
Synthetic meat: abolition of
animal suffering
Virtual companions more
compelling than real ones
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Technological possibilities
Profound uncertainties
Timing?
Extent?
anticipating2025.com
Unforeseen
consequences?
Fight or
embrace?
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Technological possibilities
Profound uncertainties
Swifter change & convergence
Nanotechnology
Ubiquitous computing
Brain sciences
Genetic engineering
Synthetic biology
anticipating2025.com
Regenerative medicine
Artificial intelligence
?
Intelligence augmentation
Robotics
Geo-engineering
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Technological possibilities
Profound uncertainties
Swifter change & convergence
Escalating stress & strain
Pensions?
Medieval
philosophies?
Politics?
Oil reserves?
Economic stability?
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Technological possibilities
Profound uncertainties
Swifter change & convergence
Escalating stress & strain
Need for clear thinking
Academia?
Politics?
anticipating2025.com
Leaders?
Media?
Religion?
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Technological possibilities
Profound uncertainties
Swifter change & convergence
Escalating stress & strain
Need for clear thinking
How can we enable & accelerate the desirable scenarios?
What is desirable?
and
What is technically feasible?
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Technological possibilities
Profound uncertainties
Swifter change & convergence
Escalating stress & strain
Need for clear thinking
Paths to 2025:
visions, nightmares, roadblocks, and plans
Transformations in thinking and lifestyle:
health, spirituality, organisations, politics,
transhumanism, and transcendence
anticipating2025.com
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Saturday
morning
Saturday
afternoon
Sunday
morning
Sunday
Speakers and running order
afternoon
subject to change
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David Wood
smartphone pioneer and
Chair, London Futurists
Predictions, good, bad, and ugly:
roadblocks en route to 2025
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Sonia Contera
co-director of the Oxford Martin
Programme on Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology in 2025
Impacts on health and biology
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Simon Bransfield-Garth
CEO Azuri Technologies
(em)Powering Africa
Power & knowledge economy
at scale to off-grid customers
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Mark Stevenson
Author:
An Optimist’s Tour of the Future
The Shift:
Why our systems are failing us
and what will replace them
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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David Levy
President of the International
Computer Games Association
Love and sex with robots:
The evolution of
human-robot relationships?
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Riva-Melissa Tez
co-Founder,
Kardashev Communications
The three obstacles that
prevent emerging technologies
from fulfilling their potential
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Paul Barnett
Founder & Acting CEO, The
Strategic Management Forum
Re-Thinking Strategy:
How organisations can thrive
during rapid change ahead
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Andrew Vladimirov
information security expert
and DIY brain hacker
The near future of
accessible cognition
enhancement and modification
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Aubrey de Grey
CSO and co-Founder,
SENS Research Foundation
When the days of aging
are clearly numbered,
how will humanity react?
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Marco Vega and Peter Brietbart
directors, British Institute of
Posthuman Studies (BIOPS)
Transhumanism and inequality
potential pitfalls of technology
distribution across societies
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Maneesh Juneja
Digital Health Futurist and
Ch. Leader, Health 2.0 London
Healthcare in the future:
will advancing technology
make doctors unemployed?
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Amon Kalkin
Founder, Zero State
The Wave of change:
Convergent technologies and
disruptive trends in 2025
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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25. #LonFut
Calum Chace
Author of ‘Pandora’s brain’
Minds and AIs:
Six important questions
An urgent new “Apollo project”
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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David Pearce
co-Founder,
World Transhumanist Association
The Molecular Biology
of Spiritual Experience:
Beyond waking consciousness
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Rohit Talwar
Global Futurist and
Founder of Fast Future Research
Driving forces, global challenges
and potential disruptions
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Ben McLeish
The Zeitgeist Movement
Updating Technical Values
and Hacking Culture-Lag:
Approach to social management
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Natasha Vita-More
Chair, Humanity+
Transhumanism:
Designing transcendent
human enhancement
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March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute,
Oxford University
Smarter policy-making through
improved collective cognition?
anticipating2025.com
March 22-23, 2014
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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31. #LonFut
Saturday
morning
Saturday
afternoon
Sunday
morning
Sunday
Speakers and running order
afternoon
subject to change
anticipating2025.com
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32. #LonFut
&
Anticipati
present
ng 2025
March 22-23, 2014
anticipating2025.com
Birkbeck College,
Torrington Square
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