world future society panel on long-term tech and humanity

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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For further information:

Jerome.Glenn@Millennium-Project.org

202-686-5179

StateoftheFuture.org

themp.orgGlobal Futures Intelligence System

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