The Future of Technology

The accelerating pace of technology creation and adoption is impacting every person and organization. There may be another innovation larger than the Internet in our lifetimes. Join this interactive panel and discussion with futurist Melanie Swan, nanotechnology and life extension expert Christine Peterson and Linden Lab / Second Life virtual worlds open source evangelist Liana Holmberg and distributed software engineering group lead Tess Chu as they present a variety of future technologies and their implications. Gain an understanding of what may be coming in virtual worlds, cybersecurity, hardware, software, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, biotechnology and life extension.

 

     

Meet Your Future of Technology Geeks:

Melanie Swan, Futurist, MS Futures Group

Discontinuous Change and the Future of Technology

A general futurist look at how linear, exponential and discontinuous growth is shaping the future of technology and what may be expected in key areas such as hardware, software, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, biotechnology, life extension and virtual worlds. Slides available here.

 

Christine L. Peterson, Founder and Vice President, Foresight Nanotech Institute

Preparing for Bizarreness: Open Source Physical Security

The open source software experience inspires us to look for ways to transfer the advantages of that process to the physical world. Open source has been particularly speedy at correction of security vulnerabilities – precisely the kind of vulnerabilities we will need to guard against in a world of highly powerful entities of various kinds. We can begin now to extend the principles of open source into the physical world: we can start to make physical security "bottom-up", decentralized, collaborative, and transparent.

 

Liana Holmberg, OS Wrangler and IP Gadfly, and Tess Chu, Developer, Linden Lab

Virtual Worlds: Open Source, Open Standards

In the near future, navigating digital worlds will become part of everyone's online reality. Join us for an overview of the virtual world Second Life, its open source community, and the grassroots effort to develop open architecture protocols for virtual worlds.

 

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