Keynote address to the 6th annual Ljubljana Forum

1. Moving Toward
Conscious-Technology
Cities of the Future
Jerome C. Glenn, CEO
The Millennium Project

2. Human Augmentation: AI-Brain Interface
as a “Neural Lace” (term coined by Elon Musk)
The City
Artificial
Intelligence
Cortex
Limbic
System
"neural lace," a mesh of
electronics [and photonics] that
will allow AI and the brain to
work together.
This could help human brains
keep up with future
enhancements in AI.
https://youtu.be/ZrGPuUQsDjo
Now imagine a city (not just an individual) with neural lace
for the human population.

3. Humans becoming cyborgs
2020
2025
2030
2050
Conscious-Technology
Built environment becoming intelligent
When the distinction between
these two mega trends becomes
blurred, we will have reached the
Post-Information Age

4. Simplification/Generalization of History
and an Alternative Future
Age /
Element Product Power Wealth Place War Time
Agricultural
Extraction
Food/Res Religion Land Earth/Res Location Cyclical
Industrial Machine Nation-State Capital Factory Resources Linear
Information Info/serv Corporation Access Office Perception Flexible
Conscious-
Technology
Linkage Individual Being Motion Identity Invented

5. IoT AI Contact Lens – always in Virtual
Reality connected to the word
Hands-free, phone free,
laptop free, AI-human
symbiosis

6. Conscious-Technology Cities
of the Future
Human
Minds
CitiesTech
The evolution of each,
influences the other, and
the Synergies create the
C-T Cities of the future.

7. AI, IoT, Nano Sensors will make a
continuum of our brains and the city
Artificial Intelligence
1. Artificial Narrow Intelligence
2. Artificial General Intelligence
3. Artificial Super Intelligence

8. Next Technologies (NT) = all together:
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Synthetic Biology & Genomics
Computational Science
Cloud & Big Data Analytics
Artificial & Augmented Reality
Nanotechnology
IoT, Tele-Everything & Tele-
Everybody, the Semantic Web
Quantum computing
Tele-Presence, Holographic
Communications
Intelligence augmentation
Collective Intelligence
3D/4D Printing of Materials and
Biology
Drones, Driverless Cars (and
other autonomous vehicles)
Conscious-Technology
Synergies Among These

9. Old Way of Seeing Future
Technologies
Artificial
Intelligence
Robotic
manufacturing
Computational Science
3-D4-D Priting
Nanotechnology
Quantum computing
Synthetic Biology
Drones
Artificial General
Intelligence
Tele-Everything &
Tele-Everybody
the SemanticWeb

10. Future Way of Seeing Future
Technologies - Integration/Synergies

11. Future Technology Synergies
Robotic
manufacturing
Drones
Quantum
computing
Robotic
manufacturing
3D，4D Printing
Augmented Reality
Tele-Presence,
Holographics
Nanotechnology
Artificial General
Intelligence
Tele-Everything
Tele-Everybody
the SemanticWeb
Increasing
individual and
collective
intelligence
Synthetic Biology
Nanotechnology

12. Future Technology Synergies
Artificial
Intelligence
Robotic
manufacturing
Quantum
computing
Drones
Future
Technology
Robotic
manufacturing
3D，4D Printing
Augmented Reality,
Tele-Presence,
Holographics

13. Inevitability of New Economics
• Concentration of wealth is increasing
• Income gaps are widening
• Employmentless economic growth seems the new norm
• Return on Investment in capital and technology is usually
better than labor
• Future technologies can replace much of human labor
• Long-term structural unemployment is a “business as
usual” surprise free forecast
• What can we do about this?

14. The Millennium Project Study:
Future Work/Tech 2050
Created three Work/Tech 2050 Global Scenarios
• It’s Complicated - A Mixed Bag
• Political/Economic Turmoil – Future Despair
• If Humans Were Free – The Self-Actualizing Economy
Create workshops to for long-terms strategies to address
these issues.
Background at: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/AI-Work.html

15. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates 1991
By 2030 millions of
people could become
augmented geniuses, and
what could they create?

16. How to keep track and anticipate such
change?
Create
Urban Collective Intelligence Systems
EC called it the European Knowledge Space

17. EC Report: The Knowledge Future:
Intelligent policy choices for Europe 2050
Policy Recommendations
Principle 1: An open knowledge system in Europe
C: Create a European Knowledge Space …. An on-line framework open to all
citizens for research, analysis, debate and sharing, this will enable policy-
makers, business leaders, scientists, technologists and the general public to
access all knowledge available, to exchange information and to deliberate
options for addressing societal challenges. An integrated framework of policies,
incentives and ICT tools to permit greater sharing, debate and participation in
the results and challenges of fast-changing science and technology to address
societal challenges, it can form a core objective of Framework Programmes of
the future.

18. An Urban Knowledge Space to improve the
collective intelligence of a City

21. For further information
Jerome C. Glenn
+1-202-686-5179 phone/fax
Jerome.Glenn@Millennium-Project.org
www.StateoftheFuture.org
Global Futures Intelligence System:
http://millennium-project.org/millennium/GFIS.html
2015-16 State of the Future:
http://millennium-project.org/millennium/201516SOF.html
Futures Research Methodology 3.0:
http://millennium-project.org/millennium/FRM-V3.html