![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Future Salon - November 2006 - Mark Finnern Presentation and discussion by avant-garde Architect George Yu of his works and the thought process that went into them. Details: George Yu: http://www.georgeyuarchitects.com/ Future Salon invitation: http://www.futuresalon.org/2006/11/architecture_pr.html Thoughts after the presentation: http://www.futuresalon.org/2006/11/style_is_out_of.html Keywords: Future Salon Downloads: 182 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Sociobiology Future Salon - Mark Finnern Sociobiology Future Salon With Joe Quirk in January 2007 at SAP Labs, Palo Alto, CA. Details about this excellent presentation and conversation at the Future Salon post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2007/01/sociobiology_fu.html. Keywords: Future Salon Downloads: 274 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Bruce Cahan: Future Salon Changing Finance: Socially-Responsive Debt, Sustainable Resiliency and the Means Meter - Mark Finnern Abstract: Al Gore aptly describes the planetary forces of energy, environment, industrialization, social justice, war and political malaise as an Inconvenient Truth. How much is Wall Street to blame? What if the finance and insurance markets allocated capital and insurance based on energy efficiency, conservationism, social equity of preparedness and other memes of profound human dignity and insight? What would that world of “high stakes” finance look like? Short Bio: Bruce’s knowledge of ... Keywords: Future Salon Downloads: 83 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Future Salon: Future of Aging NYC Future Salon meeting from March 16th, 2008: This talk is in the Little-Big format (five-minutes, five-slides) and covers different perspectives on the future of aging. Keywords: NYC Future Salon, Aging, Future Salon, Talks Downloads: 64 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Future Salon: Future of the Oceans The Future Salon of New York City Presents: The Future of the Oceans (with Peter Anderson) This talk is about the future of our oceans and covers food production in the sea, pharmaceutical interests and ocean biomass, energy production in the ocean, ocean mining and more. Keywords: oceans, future salon, talks Downloads: 85 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Who am I online Future Salon - Mark Finnern Future Salon about your Online Identity. Fen Labalme from Identity Commons, Jeff Hodges from Liberty Alliance and Eric Sachs form Google presented their views on Privacy, your identity online and what you can do about it. More details: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/01/guard_your_iden.html Keywords: Online Identity; Privacy; Future Salon Downloads: 2,074 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Boulder Future Salon - Artificial Intelligence - Boulder Future Salon Artificial Intelligence discussion, Boulder Future Salon, May 2007. Participants: Wayne (me), Doug, Rich, Sarah, Christopher, Robert, Ann D., Ann O., Annie. A random meandering conversation touching on many subjects such as Playing Go and playing Chess The Turing Test The Grand Challenge clever tricks that humans can't do your brain is smart at figuring out what your eyes see brains and evolution, brains evolved only 700,000 years ago The Loebner prize, and how humans were judged to be mac... Keywords: Futurist; Future Salon; Artificial Intelligence Downloads: 90 |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Personal Fabrication Future Salon - Mark Finnern MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld presented his research and his new book FAB:The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication. Keywords: Future Salon; Personal Fabrication; Gershenfeld Downloads: 794 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Software Radio Future Salon - Mark Finnern After a round of introductions Matt Ettus, GNU Radio team member and Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) creator, discussed both the technical and regulatory aspects of open source software radio. He concluded with a small demo of the USRP. More details: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/07/software_radio_.html Keywords: Future Salon; Software Radio; GNU Downloads: 8,667 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Open Mike Future Salon - Mark Finnern November 2005 we were trying out a new Future Salon format: After the round of introduction Future Saloners get the stage for 10 minutes to highlight an interesting aspect of the future. There is a 5 minute discussion around that theme and if the audience likes another 5 minutes is added before the next presenter. People really liked the new format and we want to do it again soon. Keywords: Future Salon, Technology, Vision, Discussion Downloads: 442 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Stem Cells: Criminals in White Coats - Mark Finnern Christopher Scott The expert in Stem Cell research took time out from writing his book: "The Stem Cell" due out in July to present an overview of the science and politics around stem cells. Keywords: stem cells; Christopher Scott; future salon Downloads: 838 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Jaron Lanier ramps up the McLuhan Ramp at the Future Salon - Mark Finnern Future Salon with Jaron Lanier. More details here: http://www.futuresalon.org/2004/04/full_salon_with.html Keywords: Jaron Lanier; Future Salon; McLuhan Ramp; Cuttlefish Downloads: 2,081 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Computers and Drugs Working Together: The Present and Future of Neural Biotechnologies - Mark Finnern Computers and Drugs Working Together: The Present and Future of Neural Biotechnologies Speakers: Dr. Mike Chorost, SRI International, Menlo Park (minute 22) Dr. Eric Lynch, Sound Pharmaceuticals, Seattle. To be able to publish his research results in scientific papers Eric asked us not to share his presentation on the net. We totally understand and respect that request. One more reason to come to the Future Salon in person :-) More information to this session: http://www.futuresalon.org/2004/07/... Keywords: Neural Technology; Cochlear Implant; Future Salon Downloads: 1,876 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Hugo de Garis at the DC Future Salon May 2006 DC Future Salon with Prof. Hugo de Garis (http://www.cs.usu.edu/~degaris/) presenting his book "THE ARTILECT WAR: Cosmists vs. Terrans, A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines" More details here: http://www.agiri.org/salon and http://www.accelerating.org/futuresalon.html Keywords: DC Future Salon, Future Salon, Hugo de Garis, Artilect, Artilect War, Cosmists vs. Terrans, Intelligent Machines Downloads: 81 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Thomas Vander Wal at the DC Future Salon - March 2006 DC Future Salon with Thomas Vander Wal (http://www.vanderwal.net/) who coined the term "folksonomy" discussing the Personal InfoCloud, a framework for people designing and developing the "come to me" web that is replacing the original "I go get" web. More details here: http://www.agiri.org/salon and http://www.accelerating.org/futuresalon.html Keywords: DC Future Salon, Future Salon, Thomas Vander Wal, Personal InfoCloud, Personal Information Cloud, Local InfoCloud, Folksonomy Downloads: 65 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Robert Hazen at the DC Future Salon - May 2006 DC Future Salon with Robert Hazen and Patrick Griffin from the Carnegie Institute (http://hazen.gl.ciw.edu) presenting their recent work in astrobiology, complexity, the emergence of complexity in artificial life systems and Avida as a modeling tool. More details here: http://www.agiri.org/salon and http://www.accelerating.org/futuresalon.html Keywords: DC Future Salon, Future Salon, Robert Hazen, Patrick Griffin, Complexity, Emergence, Avida Downloads: 70 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Boulder Future Salon - A Conversation With Doug Robertson - Wayne Radinsky and Doug Robertson Does Doug Robertson say artificial intelligence is impossible? Because of a branch of mathematics known as AIT (Algorithmic Information Theory)? Keywords: Futurist; Future Salon; Artificial Intelligence; Algorithmic Information Theory; AI; AIT Downloads: 72 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Sarah Kellnhofer Heart Transplant - Boulder Future Salon - Boulder Future Salon "My Heart Transplant Experience" -- Sarah Kellnhofer had a heart transplant operation. Here she describes what it was like from her 1st-person point of view, with some background on the heart, heart transplants, medical technology, and "future medicine alerts" thrown in for good measure. One of the most amazing life stories ever told. Keywords: Heart Transplant; Medical; Medicine; Future; Future Salon; Futurist Downloads: 51 |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Age of Anxiety Future Salon - Mark Finnern Anxiety. Stress. Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. These moods and conditions may represent the predominant emotional and mental qualities in our fast-changing world. As anxiety dominates how people think - and as the speed of business and social change overwhelms people's abilities to cope healthily - innovation and creativity will be affected. Sanjay Khanna, a writer, researcher and consultant for technology companies in consumer and enterprise markets, will discussed key implications of our age of an... Keywords: Age of Anxiety, Sanctuary, Sanjay Khanna, Future Salon Downloads: 235 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Jamais Cascio At Future Salon NYC Jamais Cascio speaking at Future Salon NYC during but not at the Singularity Summit. "Putting the Human Back Into the Post-Human Keywords: jamais cascio future salon singularity human post-human |  |