“The work is important and mysterious.”–Mark S. (Severance, Season 1, Episode 4)
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Disclaimer: my spouse may dispute one or more of the following claims.
Okay, I may be a Mark S., but I am not severed. I am mysterious and important, though! 😁
Cosmic Quote #121
August 6, 2024 by Leave a Comment
“History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”–Mark Twain
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It’s time to start rhyming and get this blog going again.
Seeking Delphi, Episode #41: After Shock and the Legacy of Alvin Toffler, with Jerome Glenn and Andrew Curry
February 23, 2020 by Leave a Comment
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“Future shock is a sickness that comes from too much change in too short a time.”–Alvin Toffler
The newly released volume, After Shock, features 50 of the world’s most renowned futurists reflecting on the 50-year legacy of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, and looking ahead to the next 50 years. In this episode recorded just a few days after the book’s release, two of the contributing essayists, Jerome Glenn and Andrew Curry, discuss with me their views on the legacy of Toffler and Future Shock. Below are links to the audio podcast as well as to the unedited YouTube video of the original webinar.
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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YouTube vidoe of original, unedited webinar
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Seeking Delphi, Episode #40: Scenarios for a Post-Aging Future, with Aubrey de Grey, Elizabeth Parrish, David Wood and Keith Comito
February 8, 2020 by 10 Comments
“For me, the key to longevity – and immortality, in a sense – has to do with transformation.”–Marilyn Manson
Is transformation the key to immortality? A better question is: will radical life extension–the end of aging–in itself be transformative? I believe the answer to that second question is a resounding yes.
In this special Seeking Delphi™ podcast, four of the world’s biggest thought leaders and advocates for ending aging discuss implications and issues involved in achieving human rejuvenation therapy, and begin the discussion of what a post-ageing world might look like. We only scratched the very surface on the latter issues–there will be more to come on the subject.
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Episode#40–The Dawn of Superlongevity: Scenarios for a Post-Aging Future.
YouTube video of the complete unedited program
Panelist Biographies
Panelist Organizations
Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF)
Association of Professional Futurists.
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Seeking Delphi, Episode #39: Quantum Computing, The State of The Art
January 26, 2020 by Leave a Comment
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“As an entrepreneur I like to know the next two or three things I might start a company on. For me it was robotics, bio-hacking, and quantum.”–whurley
As one of America’s leading technologists, when whurley speaks, people listen. Lots of them. We first heard from him on Seeking Delphi in an exclusive interview after his SXSW 2018 Intelligent Future keynote, titled The Endless Impossibilities of Quantum Computing. He was just about to announce the launch of Strangeworks, a quantum computing software company. In this episode, we follow up with whurley to assess the progress of Strangeworks and the state of the art in quantum computing;
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Episode #9: Quantum Computing, The State of The Art, with whurley
You Tube Slide Show of Episode #39
Unedited YouTube video of Zoom interview for podcast #39
Find the 2018 SXSW interview with whurley, HERE.
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Seeking Delphi, Episode #38: Science Fiction, Evolutionary Mythology of The Future.
November 26, 2019 by Leave a Comment
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“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”– Arthur C. Clarke
“I’m leaving my body to science fiction.”–Steven Wright
Science fiction pervades our culture. Movies, television, books, even stage productions. It’s rich history, and its significance in shaping our views of the future–or for that matter, inspiring us to invent the future–is the subject of this wide ranging discussion with author Tom Lombardo. Among the subjects we cover:
- Science Fiction as a pervasive view of the future; all aspects of human experience, not just technology and science.
- Parallels between mythology and science fiction
- Science Fiction as social satire and even humor (think Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, for instance).
- The danger of Hollywood’s apocalyptic future visions becoming self-fullfilling prophecies
- Some of the best future predictions from scifi.
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Tom Lombardo, click image for bio
Science Fiction, The Evolutionary Mythology of The Future. Click for Amazon link.
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Center for Future Consciousness (Tom’s web site)
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Seeking Delphi episode #36: The Future of Nursing and Caregiving, Part One
November 8, 2019 by Leave a Comment
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”
– Dag Hammarskjold
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While many futures are generalists, there is a need for foresight professionals centered on specific fields, as well. Perhaps no area is more in need of innovative outlooks for the future than healthcare. With rising costs, aging populations and personnel shortages, the challenges are many. But so are the opportunities to employ emerging technologies. In the first part of a two part series, host Mark Sackler discusses these challenge with two nursing Ph.D.’s, Oriana Beaudet and Dan Pesut. Part One addresses the need for foresight both in nursing specifically and healthcare in general, as well as the global challenges of an aging population. Part two will drill down to individual ssues, including automation, robotics and artificial intelligence as caregiving tools for the future.
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Oriana Beaudet, DNP–click image for bio
Dan Pesut, Ph.D.–click image for bio
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Episode #36 YouTube slide show
Links:
University of Minnesota School of Nursing
University of Minnesota Health Innovation and Leadership
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Cosmic Quote #106
October 12, 2019 by 4 Comments
“Life is wasted on the living.”–Douglas Adams
If anybody is counting, I’m pretty sure Mr. Adams has had more quotes in this series than anybody else. He should probably have his own series. Let’s hope this isn’t wasted on the late author: today is the 40th anniversary of the publishing of The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy. Happy Birthday, Arthur Dent! I bet you can’t wait until he turns 42.
Cosmic Quote #105
June 18, 2019 by Leave a Comment
“I’m a peripheral visionary. I can see the future but only way off to the side.”–Steven Wright
Oh, my. What does Friday taste like? Where are those “future of food” people when you need them? (I might add that any professional futurist knows that you have to look way off to the side, as well as straight ahead, to get any idea of what the future might really hold).
Seeking Delphi Special Edition Podcast: Preview of 2019 Undoing Aging Conference featuring Aubrey de Grey
March 3, 2019 by Leave a Comment
“I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.”
― Tom Robbins
Being in the category that society generally classifies as “old people,” I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry when I look at the cartoon to the left. But if the science progresses fast enough, and I live long enough, maybe I’ll see the day when I can just ignore it. As the increasingly global movement to reverse human aging gains momentum, we might see the day when everyone works like they are in their 20’s, no matter how old they are. In this special edition podcast Aubrey de Grey returns to Seeking Delphi™ to preview the 2019 Undoing Aging conference, to be held in Berlin, Germany, March 28-30. Aubrey previously was on Seeking Delphi™ in December of 2017, episode #19.
I’ll be attending the conference, look for me if you go.
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Podcast Special Edition: Preview of the 2019 Undoing Aging Conference, with Aubrey de Grey
YouTube slide show: Preview, 2019 Undoing Aging Conference
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2019 conference at Undoing-Aging.org
Program Speakers Location REGISTRATION
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