06Feb

World Future Day – 24-Hour Round-the-World Conversion on the Future

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The March 1st World Future Day engaged many great minds on future challenges around the world beginning at 12 noon in New Zealand time and ending March 1st 12 noon in Hawaii time. “Thoroughly enjoyable – thanks for the invitation!” – Vint Cerf, USA “It was so great to hear such diverse and deep perspectives […]
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13Jan

#happy2050! What future do you want? by Mara Di Berardo, Millennium Project Italian Node co-chair

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An awareness campaign by the Millennium Project aiming at stimulating public positive thoughts at 2050. On December, 21st, 2019 the Millennium Project Italian node has launched a small awareness campaign called #happy2050 on the main social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), with the support of the Millennium Project (MP). The simple, fast awareness campaign aimed at […]
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11Dec

Mini Trip Report: Dubai, UAE December 7-9, 2019

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The Dubai Future Council on Transportation brought me back for the fourth meeting for this year to review and discuss long-range plans. The Council is expected to meet four times in 2020 as well. After this review, I meet with Dr. Sara Ishaq A Mohammad, Manager of the Future Envisioning Section for the DG & […]
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21Nov

Mini Trip Report: Seoul, South Korea November 17-19, 2019

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Chosun-TV brought me to Seoul to address the Global Leadership Forum. Youngsook Park, The Millennium Project Korean Node Chair was a key organizer for the Forum. Ban-ki Moon, the former United Nations Secretary-General opened the Forum focusing on the interdependence of air quality issues and climate change. I then followed him to introduce some long-range […]
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02Nov

Mini Trip report: Montreal, Canada

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IEEE Sensors conference brought me to Montreal at the request of Bruce Hecht, Staff Engineer of Analog Devices (Boston) to speak on a panel about the future of sensors and artificial intelligence. In addition to conscious-technology as a possible post-information age possibility, I talked about the need to study potential global governance systems for the […]
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30Oct

Mini Trip Report: Lima, Peru

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The Organization for American States (OAS) is committed to creating a technological foresight system.  The Millennium Project has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to help create it. As part of this agreement, the OAS and CONCYTEC (Peru’s national council for S&T and Innovation) brought me to Lima, Peru to give the opening keynote address on […]
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19Sep

Mini Trip Report: Dubai 7-9 September

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The Dubai Future Council on Transportation brought me back to Dubai 7-9 September to review long range plans. While there I met with the Minister of Artificial Intelligence about participation in our anticipatory governance proposal to explore governance of the transition from artificial narrow to artificial general intelligence. He has agreed in principle, but the […]
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