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Our Fears Transformed
It is both exciting and daunting to live in an age in possessed of so much possibility as demonstrated by the wide array of topics discussed in this series. It’s exciting because our awareness of […]
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Brian Wang on Accelerating Technological Development
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here Brian Wang considers how and why technological progress needs to accelerate: If you were to pick […]
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Martin Ford on Accelerating Technology and the Job Market
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here are Martin Ford’s answers: If you were to pick just one current or coming […]
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Joseph Jackson on Wealth Transformed
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here are Joseph Jackson’s answers: If you were to pick just one current or coming […]
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Paul Fernhout on Abundance
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here arwe Paul Fernhout’s thoughts on coming to grips with the technologies of abundance. If […]
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Wealth Transformed
Throughout human history, material scarcity has been a constant driver of innovation and economic growth. Today the world knows material abundance far beyond what could have been imagined a few centuries ago, even while shortages, […]
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James Hughes on Automation and Unemployment
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here are James Hughes’ thoughts on one of the dangerous downsides of widespread automation: If you […]
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Natasha Vita-More on Personal Identity
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here are Natasha Vita-More’s answers If you were to pick just one current or coming […]
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Bruce Katz on Neural Enhancement
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here Bruce Katz’ thoughts on neural enhancement: If you were to pick just one current […]
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Reality Transformed
There are some who seriously ask whether the universe we live in is the real universe or merely a simulation of some kind — something like the virtual world depicted in the Matrix. series of […]
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Jime Elvidge on Human Destiny
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here are Jim Elvidge’s thoughts on human destiny If you were to pick just one […]
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Intelligence Transformed
A few years back, a computer won a chess match against the world’s most highly rated player. More recently, a computer beat a pair of highly skilled human competitors on the game show Jeopardy! IBM, […]
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Humanity Transformed
We can only imagine that, some 6 million years ago, when hominids began to stand upright, there was a tremendous controversy amongst the proto- australopithecines as to whether assuming this new posture was “natural.” Weren’t […]
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Sonia Arrison on Human Enhancement
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here are Sonia Arrison’s thoughts on human upgrading and enhancement Why should we be concerned […]
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J. Storrs Hall on our Nanofuture
Some ponderings from J. Storrs Hall in the form of excerpts from his book, Nanofuture. A well-used basketball is covered with a layer of sweat, oils, dead skin cells, and living bacteria. This layer is […]
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The Material World Transformed
The World Transformed 2, Part 3 The digital age has fundamentally transformed humanity’s relationship with information. Through the advent of personal computer, Internet, smart phone, and social media technology, we have access to knowledge, to […]
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Christine Peterson on Life Extension
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here are Christine Peterson’s answers: If you were to pick just one current or coming […]
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Aubrey de Grey on Defeating Aging
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here are Aubrey de Grey’s answers: If you were to pick just one current or […]
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Dr. Terry Grossman on Transforming Health
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here are Dr. Terry Grossman’s answers: If you were to pick just one current or […]
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P. J. Manney on Neurotechnologies
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here are P. J. Manney’s answers If you were to pick just one current or […]
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Thomas McCabe on Intelligence Transformed
We’re asking each of the participants in The World Transformed to give us their thoughts on one major coming transformation. Here are Thomas McCabe’s answers 1. If you were to pick just one current or […]
The World Transformed 2
The Series
A new 10-Part Series on FastForward Radio A series of panel discussions and individual interviews dedicated to the major transformations occurring in our world. One major transformation per week. Our Thinking Transformed, June 29 A […]
The World Transformed 2
The World Transformed 2 on FastForward Radio
Starting June 29, 2011 FastForward Radio presents The World Transformed 2. We’ll be talking to 30 futurists, visionaries, and otherwise fascinating people in an attempt to assemble a better picture of the major transformations to […]