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#63, Two Futurists Talking: The Global IT Outage, Bird Flu, and Weaponized AI–with Mike Courtney

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“The internet gave us access to everything; but it also gave everything access to us.””–James Veitch

Our daily lives are overloaded with information from more sources than anyone can can count. Your smart phone is substantially more connected to the world of information than the network TV newsroom of just a couple of decades ago. How does one make sense of it?

In this first of a new series, Two Futurists Talking, I’m joined by fellow futurist Mike Courtney, of Aperio Insights, to sort out our views on some recent news stories that have intrigued us. What are the possibilities that can emerge from our futurist points of view?

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Episode #63, Two Futurists Talking: Global IT Outage, Bird Flu, and Weaponized AI–with Mike Courtney

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Special Edition Mini-Cast: Preview of the 2020 Ending Age-Related Diseases Conference

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“As far as I’m concerned, aging is humanity’s worst problem, by some serious distance.”–Aubrey de Grey

 

Keith Comito, president of Life Extension Advocacy Foundation, joins me for a discussion to preview the 2020 Eding Age Related Diseases conference, to be held online, August 20-21, 2020.  Go HERE to register for the conference, and use discount code SeekingDelphiEARD

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Special Edition Mini-Cast: Preview of the 2020 Ending Age Related Diseases Conference

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Podcast #49: The Future of Veterinary Medicine, with Dr. Donna Harris and Dr. Karen Rosenthal

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“Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.”–Robert Wagner

 

Even as the pandemic-struck U.S. economy shrunk by 32% in the first quarter of this year, veterinary medicine saw a different story.  Pet ownership soared at a record pace, and public pet supply companies, like Petco, registered increases in sales.

Donna Harris and Karen Rosenthal are both doctors of veterinary medicine and members of The Association of Professional Futurists.  They join me for a wide ranging discussion of the future of veterinary medicine and how Covid-19 may be accelerating change in the field.

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 Episode #49: The Future of Veterinary Medicine

 

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Podcast #47: Technology and The Brain, with Laura Cabrera

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“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.”–Thomas Edison

 

Richard Dawkins might disagree with Thomas Edison.  He’d likely say the purpose of our bodies and our brains is to carry around–and perpetuate– our genes.  Increasingly, though, the purpose of body is to carry around our technology and interface it with our brains.  Wearable electronics…VR goggles…smart phones…our devices are becoming more than tools.  They are merging with our being.  Add to this the onrush of emerging BCI (brain-computer interface) technologies and one thing becomes clear.  We are becoming what we build.

The IEEE brain initiative seeks to set standards for, and explore the ethics of, many of these technologies.  Laura Cabrera is a brain researcher working with the initiative.   In this episode of Seeking Delphi™ I talk to her about many issues surrounding the accelerating use of technology to diagnose, treat, and eventually enhance, the brain.

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Episode #47: Technology and The Brain with Laura Cabrera

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Podcast #44: The Post Covid-19 Future, Part 1, Urban and Social Issues with Cindy Frewen

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“If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.”–Irwin Redlener

 

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There is no doubt about it.  The after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be with us for many years into the future.  Healthcare. Economics. Social Interaction. Sports. Politics. Education.  Just about everything will feel the effects for the rest of most of our natural lives.

In this, the first of a series looking at various scenarios for a post-pandemic world, we look at urban and social issues.  Dr. Cindy Frewen is well qualified to discuss both of these areas. She is a fellow member of the Association of Professional Futurists–she served as its board chair for many years.  She is an architect, has a Ph. D. in communication, and teaches social change in the University of Houston’s graduate foresight program.  She also was a columnist for the Kansas City Star for many years.

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Episode #44:  Post-Covid19 Urban and Social Issues, with Cindy Frewen

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An Invation to The Future, Seeking Delphi(tm) Webinar: After Shock and The Legacy of Alvin Toffler, with Cindy Frewen, Jerome Glenn, and Andrew Curry

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“Change is not merely necessary to life–it is life.”–Alvin Toffler

Join me on Thrusday, February 13 at 12:00PM EST, 5PM GMT for a webinar discussion with three of the 50 contributors to After Shock, as we discuss the book and the 50 year legacy of Alvin Toffler.  Panelists will include two previous Seeking Delphi™ guests, Cindy Frewen and Jerome Glenn.  One new face–Andrew Curry–will also join us.  All three are fellow members of the Association of Professional Futurists.  Use this Zoom link to sit in and, if motivated, participate in the Q and A session at the end of the program. https://zoom.us/j/118159454

The day I read Future Shock, just a couple of years after it came out, was the day that started me on the course to becoming a futurist.  Here’s what I wrote on this blog when Toffler died in July of 2016.

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