Selected Slides, Audio and Video presentations by ASF president
John Smart (email).
More may be found at his personal
site.
Dec 2009 | H+ Summit: Metaverse
2.0: The Informational, Social and Cognitive Heart of Our Accelerating
Future (40 slides, 2MB).
Intro to accelerating change, the NISCB tech pentad, and some
potentially major Metaverse 2.0 Social and Cognitive developments:
Cybertwins, the Valuecosm, and Symbiont Networks.
Sep 2009 | Santa Fe Institute (Biz Net): Evo
Devo Universe? A Speculative Framework for Thinking About Unpredictable
and Predictable Aspects of Universal Change (125 slides, 7MB).
Where does universal intelligence go in the long run? In the short
run? What aspects of the future seem not evolutionary, but developmental?
How do we get to a science of prediction?
May 2009 | WBAI (Audio): Six
Developments in Accelerating Change, Arnell Dowret interviewing
John Smart (mp3 audio, 29 mins, 13MB) Global Transparency, the
Humbot, the Conversational Interface, the Metaverse, the Cybertwin,
and the Valuecosm. A survey of some major and apparently developmental
emergences that seem statistically likely to occur in the decades
ahead. Disagree? Let us know.
Apr 2009 | Bay Area Future Salon (Slides): Evo
Devo Universe?: A Speculative Framework for Thinking About the
Future (124 slides, 7MB) (Video) Evo
Devo Universe? Part 1 (55 mins). Evo
Devo Universe? Part 2 (52 mins). What is predictable in universal
change? What isn't? A framework for thinking about creating, discovering,
and managing the future. Want
a shorter version? See this Evo
Devo Universe? talk (23 mins) given at BIL 2009 (Feb 2009).
Jan 2009 | Mendoza Coll of Business, U. Notre Dame:
Foresight
Development in a World of Accelerating Change (69 slides,
3MB)
Thoughts on strategies for innovation, learning, and sustainability
in a world of accelerating technological change. For business
students.
Aug 2008 | POST Command College: Adapting
to the Future (158 slides, 14MB)
Understanding and guiding accelerating change. Daylong workshop
for law enforcement leadership.
Jul 2008 | World Future Society: Selling
and Teaching Foresight Development (115 slides, 7 MB)
How to pitch the dean on starting a required (core) undergrad
course in FD, and overview of ASF's FD course. For would-be educators.
Jul 2008 | Mindshare LA: Five
Questions (41 slides, 3 MB)
Conjectures on the universe, our relation to the universe,
and the importance of foresight/futures work. For a general audience.
Jul 2008 | Army Science Board: Adapting
to the Future (89 slides, 7 MB)
Nonclassified 1.5 hr brief on trends and scenarios in accelerating
change. For advisors to senior Army staff.
Jul 2007 | Korean Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology
(KAIST): The
Limits of BIology, the Promise of Technology (107 slides,
9MB).
Arguments why nanotech, mechtech and infotech will have far broader
social impacts than biotech in coming years. For undergrads.
Apr 2007 | National Air and Space Intelligence Center:
Adapting
to the Future (249 slides, 19MB)
Daylong workshop on guiding accelerating change for strategic
advantage. For NASIC staff.
May 2006 | Stanford Singularity Summit: Searching
for the Big Picture (90 slides, 8MB)
A three part framework for investigating accelerating change from
a universal perspective. For a general audience.
Jan 2006 | Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14: Accelerating
Change Toolkit (147 slides, 6MB)
Assumptions, processes, studies, skillsets, trends, and scenarios
in accelerating change. For physician-innovators.
Nov 2005 | Tamkang University: How
to be a Strategic Futurist (169 slides, 6MB)
An integral approach to predicting, managing, and creating our
accelerating future. For futurists.
Oct 2005 | Army War College: How
to be a Strategic Futurist (160 slides, 6MB)
An integral approach to predicting, managing, and creating our
accelerating future. For military leaders.
Jun 2005 | University of Advancing Technology: How
to be a Tech Futurist (111 slides, 4MB)
Some considerations for predicting, managing, and creating in
a world of accelerating change.
Apr 2005 | Las Vegas Future Salon: Catalyzing
the Symbiotic Age (114 slides, 6MB)
Discovering, managing, and creating the next great emergences
in human-machine symbiosis.
Apr
2005 | U of Houston, Studies of the Future M.S.: Online
Community Design (53 slides, 3MB)
A survey of current tools, tips, and techniques for effective
online community design and management.
Mar
2005 | FBI Futures Working Group: Security
and Policing in 2015 (114 slides, 2MB)
Considerations for FBI leadership and innovation in homeland security
and policing in the coming decade.
Nov 2004 | Accelerating Change Conference: The
Symbiotic Age (35 slides. 3MB)
Accelerating change, the CUI, avatars, personality capture, and
trends in human-machine symbiosis.
Oct 2004 | Space Frontier Conference: Exploring
Micro and Macro Frontiers (61 slides. 3MB)
Advancing research in the amazing world of inner space leads us
to greater achievements in outer space.
Oct 2004 | World Technology Summit: Intro
to Accelerating Change (34 slides. 2MB)
A brief overview of accelerating change for a panel convened by
the World Technology Network.
Apr 2004 | L.A. Future Salon: Singularity
Economics (96 slides. 7MB)
Thoughts on the history of acceleration, evolutionary development,
hierarchical emergence, autonomy and economics.
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