Entries tagged with: Talks

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The Future, in San Francisco

On Monday, June 18, I will be speaking at the Bay Area Art & Science Interdisciplinary Collaborative Sessions (BAASICS) multimedia event in the city of San Francisco. It's open to the public, but seating is limited. More info here....

Posted on June 5, 2012 10:56 AM

New Pollution

I spoke last month at the Swissnex office in San Francisco (Swissnex is kind of the Swiss embassy for technology issues), at an event entitled "Data is (sic) the New Oil." The focus of the event was the tension between...

Posted on May 1, 2012 8:39 AM

Opaque Projections

Last night (April 10, 2012), I spoke at the San Francisco Swissnex office on a panel entitled "Data is* the New Oil." When I was told the title of the panel, it struck me as an odd metaphor. Oh, I...

Posted on April 11, 2012 11:35 AM

The Future is a Virus (my Swedish Twitter University "talk")

Not literally, of course. But if we think about the future as something that infects us, we gain a new perspective on our world. Human civilization has a weak immune system when it comes to futures. We can sometimes recognize...

Posted on December 12, 2011 12:33 PM

Swedish Twitter University

On Monday, December 12, I'll be doing a session of Swedish Twitter University. #STU06 - Jamais Cascio: “The Foresight Immune System” If accurate predictions are impossible — and they are — why should we think about the future? In 25...

Posted on December 7, 2011 2:54 PM

Hacking the Earth, in London

On Thursday, November 10, I gave a talk on geoengineering for the "Truth and Beauty" series at the Hub/Westminster. The host of the event, Vinay Gupta (a name you might recall from Worldchanging), video'd the talk and subsequent Q&A,...

Posted on November 16, 2011 2:29 PM

London Calling At the Top of the Dial

I will be in London next week, and have arranged a talk -- open to the public -- on the topic of Geoengineering. Thursday evening, November 10, I'll be speaking at the Hub Westminster, as part of the TruthAndBeauty series....

Posted on November 1, 2011 1:07 PM

NEXT 2010 talk

I was in Denmark last week, speaking at NEXT 2010. The subject... geoengineering (dun dun DUN). Here's the talk. When I watched a part of it, the sound was off-sync with the video, so fair warning. And fun game for...

Posted on September 8, 2010 2:51 PM

Activate!

On July 1, I spoke in London at the Guardian "Activate Summit 2010," a day-long collection of talks about the Internet and its possible futures. They've now started posting the talks, and lo and behold, my talk was among the...

Posted on August 17, 2010 10:53 AM

My Talk at Lift10 : Wired for Tomorrow

Watch live streaming video from liftconference at livestream.com (My original title was "Wired for Anticipation," hence the video title.) Video quality is iffy, and the audio isn't sync'd well, so be warned....

Posted on May 14, 2010 1:51 PM

Homesteading the Uncanny Valley

An audio recording of my talk at the "Biopolitics of Popular Culture" meeting in December is now available, so I've gone ahead and uploaded the presentation to slideshare. It's a ~25 minute talk, and it should be relatively easy to...

Posted on February 11, 2010 10:46 AM

Speaker Circuit

My 2010 calendar is filling up already! February 4: The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's 2010 Annual Meeting (PDF). Morning keynote. San Francisco. Also February 4: State of Green Business Forum -- "Hacking the Earth Without Voiding its Warranty." San Francisco...

Posted on January 13, 2010 1:32 PM

Lift '010

Just as a heads-up to anyone planning on being in Geneva (or in a nearby European location) in early May: I'll be speaking at the 2010 Lift conference. The theme is "What can the Future do for you?" Generations...

Posted on December 17, 2009 9:50 AM

Be Biopolitical At Home

IEET has announced that Friday's Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar (referenced here and here) will be live-streamed for those folks unable to attend in person. Those unable to attend the event in person will be able to follow along in...

Posted on December 1, 2009 5:31 PM

Biopolitics of Pop Culture -- Updated

Lots of new speakers joining the Biopolitics of Popular Culture event on December 4. Here's the latest info: Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar Friday, December 4, 2009 EON Reality, Irvine, CA, USA This is your chance to learn firsthand from...

Posted on November 11, 2009 9:57 AM

Putting the Human Back Into the Post-Human -- The Motion Picture

The talk I gave at the New York Future Salon is now available! The entire video runs about 98 minutes; my talk starts after a couple of minutes of intro, and I finish up right at the one-hour mark. The...

Posted on November 9, 2009 10:05 AM

Biopolitics of Pop Culture

Join me and a pretty nifty selection of speakers on December 4 at the Biopolitics of Popular Culture event in HOLLYW--er, IRVINE, California. Popular culture is full of tropes and cliches that shape our debates about emerging technologies. Our most...

Posted on October 21, 2009 6:38 PM

New FC: Singularity Scenarios

My latest Fast Company essay goes up today, talking about the different scenarios for a "Singularity" that arise when you take into account different cultural and political drivers for both before and after the development of greater-than-human intelligence. Three...

Posted on October 12, 2009 1:46 PM

"Singularity Salon" Talk

Here's my slide deck from my talk at last night's New York Futures Salon. This is the raw Slideshare conversion, so a few of the transitions end up as blank slides (and you lose all of the nifty Keynote effects)....

Posted on October 4, 2009 7:53 AM

If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Singularity

All of the details have been worked out, so now I can talk about it: I will be speaking in New York City on October 3, at the New York Futures Salon. The subject? Singularity Salon: Putting the Human Back...

Posted on September 23, 2009 8:35 AM

Cascio's Laws of Robotics: The Motion Picture

Last March, I gave a talk in Menlo Park entitled "Cascio's Laws of Robotics." I've already posted a link to the slides I used, and to essays and interviews covering related topics. Now -- finally -- the video of the...

Posted on August 2, 2009 2:47 PM

re•making tomorrow

Video of my talk at AMP in Sydney is now available. It runs about an hour: There will be a prize (to be determined) for whomever comes up with the goofiest screencap of me from this video. My candidate is...

Posted on June 25, 2009 4:48 PM

Worry. Be Happy.

On Wednesday morning, I'll be presenting at AMPLIFY 09 in Sydney, Australia. The topic of my talk? "What if we really COULD change the future for the better?" It's at once a bit unsettling and a bit of a relief...

Posted on June 21, 2009 6:08 PM

Mobile Intelligence

Video of my Mobile Monday talk now up: ...

Posted on June 5, 2009 2:41 PM

Mobile Monday

The presentation went well. There should be a couple of videos available shortly -- the official one, and one recorded by Howard Rheingold. Here are the slides for my talk. This is the raw Slideshare version, with a few...

Posted on June 2, 2009 1:34 AM

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