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The Future’s Narrative: A Report from WorldFuture 2012
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The Future’s Narrative: A Report from WorldFuture 2012
The World Future Society’s 2012 conference, held in Toronto July 27-29, got off to an inspiring start thanks to Lee Rainie (director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project) and Brian David Johnson (director of Future Casting and Experience Research for Intel Corp.).
Rainie’s survey work involves offering experts two alternative scenarios of change (\"tension pairs\") and asking them to pick which will be more likely to happen. While the resulting data provides an overview of the experts’ general mind-set (optimistic or pessimistic), the open-ended narrative responses to the scenarios are more useful, Rainie said.
Johnson used science-fiction references to make his point that \"futurecasting is not about predicting the future; it’s about developing an actionable vision that we can build.\" And building that future will mean understanding the language of computing, or algorithms. \"Algorithms are written by people, and it’s a story, a narrative,\" he said. Referencing Mary Shelley’s parable about Frankenstein’s monster—that if you build something, it will come to life and kill you—we need to change the narrative about the things we make.
As an example of a \"real mad scientist\" who is changing that narrative, Johnson introduced surprise guest speaker Andrew Hessel, whose Pink Army Cooperative is working on curing cancer—for free. Hessel’s work with synthetic biology changes the narrative of what viruses are. \"Viruses are apps,\" he said. Viruses are used to load \"software\" (cancer-fighting compounds) into cells.
Naveen Jain, founder of Moon Express, promoted an entrepreneurial approach to solving problems: \"Don’t be afraid of doing well, but if you can do well by doing good, you’re a great entrepreneur.\" In other words, don’t just do the \"feel-good\" stuff; solve billion-dollar problems, and think about the scalability of solutions.
In his Saturday luncheon speech, Geordie Rose, creator of the World's First Quantum Computer, said that quantum computation is advancing faster than Moore's Law. And on Sunday, speaker Edie Weiner looked at the future of 3-D printing, pharmaceuticals, cutting-edge trends in neuroscience, and the widening frontier of the possible.
These are just a few highlights of the more than 50 presentations, workshops, and roundtables taking place during WorldFuture 2012: Dream. Design. Develop. Deliver. Further coverage of the event will appear in the November-December 2012 issue of THE FUTURIST magazine.
WorldFuture 2012 speakers received coverage from i09, The Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, the Epoch Times, CBC, and CTV Canada.
Download the final WorldFuture 2012 program
Order a copy of the special conference edition (Summer 2012) of World Future Review
Browse audio highlights: IntelliQuest Media
Register at the early-bird rate for WorldFuture 2013, to be held in Chicago, July 19-21, 2013
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