Presented by Jerome Glenn “The future doesn’t need us,” Bill Joy said in his famous 2001 WIRED article. He warned us of the threats posed by advanced technologies, and suggested we should slow down their advancement. Many today agree with Joy. The evolution of our knowledge about nature and the evolution of nature itself have come to a historic crossroads, others claim. It took billions of years for nature to produce our universe, a planet called Earth and a living species able to ask questions and create answers. It took humans just decades to develop a technology to bring our collective knowledge back to life deep within the brains of super computers and show it on the screens of Ipads and smart phones. With digital technology, an astonishing transformation is taking place right in front of our eyes. Since the Big Bang, nature has been the sole creator of the future. Until humans came along and unraveled nature’s tricks, enough so to take away its monopoly, and bring us to the most important crossroads in the history of our universe.

1. WFS Panel: What If the Future Needs Us?
Conscious-TechnologyConscious-Technology
Mystics & TechnocratsMystics & Technocrats
Jerome C. Glenn
The Millennium Project

2. Humans becoming
cyborgs
1985
2000
2015
2030
Conscious-TechnologyConscious-Technology
Built environment
becoming intelligent
When the distinction between
these two trends becomes
blurred, we will have reached the
Post-Information Age
Quality? Merging Mystic attitudes
and Technocratic knowledge

3. 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

4. Ifthen Nano-
technology
Synthetic
Biology
Internet of
Things
AI and
Robotics
Conscious-
Technology
Augmented
Reality
Nano-
technology xxx
Synthetic
Biology xxx
Internet of
Things xxx
AI and Robotics
xxx
Conscious-
Technology xxx
Augmented
Reality xxx
Emerging Technologies Table

5. 1. Regulations are impossible: drives research underground;
regulators cannot keep up with advances; best you can do is
educate and train scientists in ethics and self-manage risks.
2. Regulations are necessary: Scale of potential dangers are too
great and global not to regulate; requires global systems to
assess risks; design regulations and enforce agreements
3. Potential resolution: How Create S&T Collective Intelligence
System by a new International S&T Organization (ISTO) to
expose all insights in real-time
Controlling S&T Risks?

6. Collective and Individual Intelligence

7. How to Increase Individual Intelligence
(or Mental Performance)
1. Responding to feedback
2. Consistency of love, diversity of environment
3. Nutrition
4. Reasoning exercises
5. Believing it is possible (placebo effect)
6. Contact with intelligent people or via VR simulations
7. Software systems and gaming
8. Neuro-pharmacology (enhanced brain chemistry)
9. Memes on classroom walls and else where, for example: intelligence is sexy
10. Low stress, stimulating environments, with certain music, color, fragrances improves
concentration and performance
11. Longer term:
• Reverse engineering the brain
• Applied Epigenetics and genetic engineering
• Designer microbes to eat the plaque on neurons

8. Global Overviews Needed

9. Improving integration and synergies among…
Collective Intelligence

10. Collective Intelligence
• It emerges from the integration
and synergies among
• data/info/knowledge
• software/hardware
• experts and others with insight
• that continually learns from
feedback
• to produce just in time knowledge
for better decisions
• than these elements acting alone.

11. An Application of Collective Intelligence:
Global Futures Intelligence System at www.themp.org

12. Executive Summary
Chapter 1 – 15 Global Challenges
Chapter 2 – Hidden Hunger
Chapter 3 – Coast Zones
Chapter 4 – Lone Wolf and SIMAD
Chapter 5 – Global Futures
Intelligence System
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13. 25 Years from Now:
What will be emerging? And from what?

14. What is the first thinking? And what does the
second think about that?
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15. For further information:
Jerome.Glenn@
Millennium-Project.org
202-686-5179
StateoftheFuture.org
themp.org
Global Futures
Intelligence System

16. If time…

17. 32 Seeds of the Future of Arts,
Media, and Entertainment
Cross-Impact
these 32
seeds to see
what new
creative
industries are
possible