A conference co-hosted by London Futurists and Humanity+
Table of Contents
Part I: Setting the scene
- 1. Roadblocks en route to 2025, by David Wood
- 2. The Big Shift – Citizenship in 2025, by Mark Stevenson
- 3. The Path to 2025: Driving forces, global challenges, potential disruptions, and business scenarios, by Rohit Talwar & Iva Lazorova
Part II: Re-designing medicine and healthcare
- 4. Will advancing technology make doctors unemployed? by Maneesh Juneja
- 5. The convergence of nano and bio, and the future of medicine, by Sonia Contera
- 6. Aubrey de Grey’s Rejuvenation Biotechnology programme, by Peter Morgan
Part III: Re-designing Artificial Intelligence
- 7. Six important questions about Artificial Intelligence, by Calum Chace
- 8. On human-machine merger by and after 2025, by Martin Dinov & Elias Rut
Part IV: Re-designing society
- 9. (Em)powering Africa, by Freemavens
- 10. Smarter policymaking through improved collective cognition? by Anders Sandberg
- 11. Convergent Risk, Social Futurism, and the Wave of Change, by M Amon Twyman
- 12. Updating Technical Values and Hacking Culture-Lag, by Ben McLeish
Part V: Re-designing humanity
- 13. High-Tech Jainism, by David Pearce
- 14. Cryonics, Special Needs People, and the Coming Transhumanist Future, by Zoltan Istvan
- 15. Transhumanism: an iterative design challenge, by Natasha Vita-More
- 16. Love and sex with robots, by David Levy
- 17. The future of accessible neurostimulation, by Andrew Vladimirov
Part VI: Next steps
- 18. Personal Financial Implications of Future Trends, by Michael Nuschke
- 19. Extend productive longevity – or perish, by Alex Zhavoronkov
- 20. The Future Doesn’t Care About Your Start-Up, by Riva-Melissa Tez
- 21. Ecology & Technology: colliding or combining? by Victor Anderson
- 22. The Millennium Project and the State of the Future, by Jerome Glenn
- Afterword, by David Wood
Appendices
- A1. Driving Forces: 100 Trends and Developments Shaping the Path to 2025, by Rohit Talwar & Iva Lazorova
- A2. Distant Thunder: 50 Emerging Concepts that could Rewrite the Future, by Rohit Talwar & Iva Lazorova
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