billk2 / Bill Kay

Huffduffing since November 28th, 2010 billk2.com

There are two people in billk2’s collective.

Huffduffed (275)

  6. Peter Leyden: The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050 - The Long Now

    A compelling case can be made that we are in the early stages of another tech and economic boom in the next 30 years that will help solve our era’s biggest challenges like climate change, and lead to a societal transformation that will be understood as civilizational change by the year 02100.

    Peter Leyden has built the case for this extremely positive yet plausible scenario of the period from 02020 to 02050 as a sequel to the Wired cover story and book he co-authored with Long Now cofounder Peter Schwartz 25 years ago called The Long Boom: The Future History of the World 1980 to 2020.

    His latest project, The Transformation, is an optimistic analysis on what lies ahead, based on deep interviews with 25 world-class experts looking at new technologies and long-term trends that are largely positive, and could come together in surprisingly synergistic ways.

    https://longnow.org/seminars/02021/feb/09/transformation-future-history-world-02020-02050/

    download

    Tagged with long now future book:author=peter leyden technology trends forecasting prediction

    —Huffduffed by billk2

  7. Lewis Dartnell at The Interval at Long Now | San Francisco

    Lewis Dartnell at The Interval: From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, the human story is the story of environmental forces, from plate tectonics and climate change, to atmospheric circulation and ocean currents.

    Professor Lewis Dartnell will dive into the planet’s deep past, where history becomes science, to explore a web of connections that underwrites our modern world, and that can help us face the challenges of the future.

    Lewis Dartnell is a Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster. Before that, he completed his biology degree at the University of Oxford and his PhD at UCL, and then worked as the UK Space Agency research fellow at the University of Leicester, studying astrobiology and searching for signs of life on Mars. He has won several awards for his science writing and contributes to the Guardian, The Times, and New Scientist. He is also the author of three books. He lives in London, UK.

    https://theinterval.org/salon-talks/02019/sep/10/origins-how-earths-history-shaped-human-history/

    download

    Tagged with civilization culture history economics geology earth science infrastructure climate change currents long now talks long-term thinking lecture sf the interval san francisco event ideas time longnow

    —Huffduffed by billk2

  10. Unleashing Londoners’ imagination

    In this Open House special episode we will be talking about how imagination — such as myths which celebrate our real or fictional past — can transform how we see the city around us, and in turn create better places for everyone.

    Specifically we will be focussing on Seething Wells in Surbiton, a large former waterworks which played a pioneering role in the delivery of clean drinking water to central London, and was a focus of Jon Snow’s groundbreaking cholera study which created modern epidemiology.

    https://open-city.org.uk/podcast

    ===
    Original video: https://soundcloud.com/user-223743498/unlocking-london-with-londoners-imagination
    Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/ on Mon Oct 12 16:10:13 2020 Available for 30 days after download

    —Huffduffed by billk2

Page 1 of 28Older