Entries tagged with: Speaking

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Crime and Punishment

Co.Exist has put up a short video from my discussion at their recent Innovation Uncensored event in NYC. In this video, I talk about why thinking about misuses of technologies is a good way of discovering the unexpected implications of...

Posted on May 28, 2013 12:28 PM

Bots, Bacteria, and Carbon: My Talk at ENSIA

The talk I gave earlier this month at the University of Minnesota is now viewable at the Ensia website, on YouTube, and embedded below. (Wherever you watch it, I encourage you to open up a full-screen view window, for...

Posted on March 29, 2013 1:07 PM

Where's Waldo? (and by "Waldo" I mean me)

This has already been a busy year, and it's just getting more hectic. Over the past couple of weeks, I've talked bioterrorism near DC and sustainability in the snows of Minneapolis. I'm now immersed in the Institute for the Future's...

Posted on March 19, 2013 10:45 AM

New Chapters

I have two new written pieces out now, each at sites to which I will be regularly contributing. The first, "5 Unexpected Factors That Change How We Forecast The Future," is my first essay for Co.EXIST, a FastCompany spinoff focusing...

Posted on February 12, 2013 2:59 PM

Humanity Plus Talk, "Bad Futurism"

Here's the talk I gave a the Humanity+ conference in San Francisco last December. Entitled "Bad Futurism," it's a conversational version of this post. The video runs about 20 minutes. The very first minute or two of my talk is...

Posted on February 11, 2013 9:55 AM

Ready or Not (Doomsday talk in San Francisco, June 2012)

Jamais Cascio @ "BAASICS.2:The Future" from Selene Foster on Vimeo. This past June, I spoke at an event in San Francisco for a group called "BAASICS" (Bay Area Art & Science Interactive Collaborative Sessions). My talk -- on the...

Posted on January 3, 2013 10:54 AM

BIL2012 Talk: Peak Humanity

BIL has finally posted the talk I gave earlier this year: The crux of the talk is an elaboration on the "second uncanny valley" idea I wrote about some time ago. I've come to realize that it this was too...

Posted on October 23, 2012 2:03 PM

Writing the Future

On December 2, I will be speaking at the 2012 humanity+ conference in San Francisco. Given my frequent dubious reactions to transhumanism as a broad concept (remember, humanity+ is the reimagined World Transhumanist Association), you might wonder why I'm speaking...

Posted on October 8, 2012 3:25 PM

Singularity Summit 2008

So, the official announcement for the 2008 Singularity Summit is now up, and for folks looking to get their fill of conversations about the transcendent, here's your chance to sign up. This time around, the Summit will take place on...

Posted on September 2, 2008 6:04 PM

Opportunity Green

On Saturday, November 17, I'll be speaking in Los Angeles at the first annual Opportunity Green conference, looking at the future of "sustainable business." Opportunity Green is being produced in cooperation with UCLA's Sustainable Resource Center. I'm the least business-focused...

Posted on September 6, 2007 2:36 PM

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