2010 Humanity+ Summit
With our growing resources, the Lifeboat Foundation has teamed with the
Singularity Hub as Media Sponsors for the 2010 Humanity+ Summit. If you
have suggestions on future events that we should sponsor, please send
them to
Additional info about the summit:
The summer 2010 “Humanity+ @ Harvard – The Rise Of The Citizen
Scientist” conference is being held, after the inaugural conference in
Los Angeles in December 2009, on the East Coast, at Harvard University’s
prestigious Science Hall on June 12-13. Futurist, inventor, and author
of the NYT bestselling book “The Singularity Is Near”, Ray Kurzweil is
going to be keynote speaker of the conference. Full details are at
http://hplussummit.com
Also speaking at the H+ Summit @ Harvard is Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical
gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK, and is the Chief Science Officer
of SENS Foundation, a California-based charity dedicated to combating
the aging process. His talk, “Hype and anti-hype in academic
biogerontology research: a call to action”, will analyze the interplay
of over-pessimistic and over-optimistic positions with regards of
research and development of cures, and propose solutions to alleviate
the negative effects of both.
The theme is “The Rise Of The Citizen Scientist”, as illustrated in his
talk by Alex Lightman, Executive Director of Humanity+:
“Knowledge may be expanding exponentially, but the current rate of
civilizational learning and institutional upgrading is still far too
slow in the century of peak oil, peak uranium, and “peak everything”. Humanity needs to gather vastly more data as part of ever larger and
more widespread scientific experiments, and make science and technology
flourish in streets, fields, and homes as well as in university and
corporate laboratories.”
Humanity+ Summit @ Harvard is an unmissable event for everyone who is
interested in the evolution of the rapidly changing human condition, and
the impact of accelerating technological change on the daily lives of
individuals, and on our society as a whole. Tickets start at only $150,
with an additional 50% discount for students registering with the coupon
STUDENTDISCOUNT (valid student ID required at the time of admission).
With over 40 speakers, and 50 sessions in two jam packed days, the
attendees, and the speakers will have many opportunities to interact,
and discuss, complementing the conference with the necessary networking
component.
Other speakers already listed on the H+ Summit program page include:
- David Orban, Chairman of Humanity+: “Intelligence Augmentation, Decision Power, And The Emerging Data Sphere”
- Heather Knight, CTO of Humanity+: “Why Robots Need to Spend More Time in the Limelight”
- Andrew Hessel, Co-Chair at Singularity University: “Altered Carbon: The Emerging Biological Diamond Age”
- M. A. Greenstein, Art Center College of Design: “Sparking our Neural Humanity with Neurotech!”
- Michael Smolens, CEO of dotSUB: “Removing language as a barrier to cross cultural communication”
New speakers will be announced in rapid succession, rounding out a
schedule that is guaranteed to inform, intrigue, stimulate and provoke,
in moving ahead our planetary understanding of the evolution of the
human condition!
H+ Summit @ Harvard – The Rise Of The Citizen Scientist
June 12-13, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
When you register, please use the URL
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6488065...41206940 for
tracking purposes.
Blog
David Orban joins our blog team with the post "H+ Summit @ Harvard — The
Rise Of The Citizen Scientist" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/hplussummit
James Doehring joins our blog team with the post "Technology Readiness
Levels for Non-rocket Space Launch" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/technology-rea...e-launch
Amnon H. Eden joins our blog team with the post "Technological
Singularity and Acceleration Studies: Call for Papers" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/technological-...-studies
Markus Goritschnig joins our blog team with the post "Critical Request to
CERN Council and Member States on LHC Risks" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/critical-reque...hc-risks
Books
Read "The Teachers We Need vs. the Teachers We Have: The Realities and the Possibilities" by our Lawrence Baines at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/160709...07097028
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