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zarq — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:58:52 -0800

On November 22, 2011, TEDxBrussels held an all day event whose theme was: "A Day in the Deep Future." Speakers were asked to try and contemplate what life will be like for mankind in 50 years. Overview. The Talks: (Playlist) * Paddy Ashdown (British politician and diplomat): Why the world will never be the same & what we should do about it * Eileen Bartholomew (Senior Director Life Sciences at X PRIZE Foundation): The XPrize Foundation of 2061 * John Bohannon (Dancer, biologist and journalist): Dance Your PhD * Lorenz Bogaert (Online media entrepreneur): The European Dream * David Brin (Astrophysicist and science fiction author): Target 2061: Reinventing Civilization Across Half a Century * Kushal Chakrabarti (Founder of Vittana, turning global education into opportunity): Literacy is not enough * Leila Janah (Founder of Samasource, giving digital opportunity to impoverished people): The microwork revolution * Peter Cochrane (Futurologist, researcher and engineer): Not HAL9000 * David Cuartielles (Microchip inventor, co-founder of Arduino): Open Source Hardware * David Ewing Duncan (Journalist, Author, Medical Technologist): When I'm 164 * Sebastien de Halleux (Belgian engineer, Co-Founder of Playfish): Games the Next Billion will play * Alain De Taeye (Co-founder of Tele Atlas): Five Minutes into the Future * David Deutsch (Quantum Physicist): The Unknowable & how to prepare for it * Hasan Elahi (Interdisciplinary media activist, privacy artist): Hiding in Plain Sight * Peter Fenwick (Neuropsychiatrist): The Art of Dying Well * Carl Flink and Edward Oroyan (Choreographers and Artists): Black Label Movement - Zero Gravity Dance * Ken Haase (Engineer-scientist-philosopher): The Singularity is Here * Kaliya Hamlin (Identity Researcher): Identity, the Contexts of the Future * Charles Hazlewood (Conductor and advocate for access to orchestral music): Music of the Future * Andrew Hessel (Biologist and Author): Making Worlds * Peter Hinssen (Thought leader, the impact of technology on society): The Tiger and the Rock * Mikko H. Hypponen (Chief research officer at F-Secure Corporation in Finland): Defending the Net * Julie Meyer (Founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, Founder - Entrepreneur Country, Managing Partner - Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs Fund [ACE]): Entrepreneurs 2061 * Marc Millis (NASA deep space expert): Space Flight Predictions: After AI & Transhumanism * Raul Rojas (Specialist in artificial neural networks) Cars that Think * Rudy Rucker (Founder of the cyberpunk literary movement): Beyond Machines: The Year 3000 * Henrik Scharfe (Director at the Center for Computer-mediated Epistemology): Geminoid-DK * John Shirley (American fantasist, author of BioShock Rapture): False Singularities... * Rob Spence (Eyeborg and enhanced human): Eyeborg, the Enhanced Self * Luc Steels (Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory): The Robot Culture * Jack Tuszynski (Computational biophysician): From eDx to eRx The digital future of personalized diagnostics and pharmaceuticals * Jacques Vallee (Computer scientist and ufologist, Mars mapping for NASA): A Theory of Everything (else)...

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