Gaming the Future: The Book!

Videos of last week’s salons & what not to miss this week!

 

1 week and 14 salons in, here are the videos of the Foresight Sanity Preserver, a twice-a-day free global online salon on positive futures from COVID-19 and beyond that many of you have joined.

Last week in review:

  • Existential Risk Opportunities from COVID-19, Jaan Tallinn, CSER, FLI
  • Authoritarianism & COVID-19 | Alex Gladstein, Human Rights Foundation
  • Reasons for COVID-19 “Optimism” | Matt Bell, Matterport
  • Community Safety Net Fund | Jonathan Cain, Velorum Capital
  • Health Tips for COVID-19 | Nell Watson, COVID-19 Taskforce
  • What The CDC is not Telling You | Steven Fowkes
  • The Pseudo-Time Arrow | Andres Gomez, Qualia Research Institute
  • Lessons from Hong Kong | De Kai, HKUST
  • Home Treatment of COVID-19 with Cinchona Alkaloids | Patrick Mellor, Foresight Fellow
  • “The Renaissance Came from the Plague” | Tyler Alterman
  • How to Live a Meaningful, Optimistic Life in Times of Radical Change | Lydia Laurenson, New Modality
  • Understanding the Adaptive Immune Response to COVID-19 | Ravi Pandya, Microsoft
  • Rapid Production of Human Antibodies Using an Externalized Human Immune System | Melanie Matheu, Prellis
  • Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing for COVID-19 | Peter Eckersley
  • Voluntary Cooperation vs. Top-down Control to Manage Crises | Mark Miller, Christine Peterson, Allison, Foresight Institute
  • Grand Futures: The Very Long Run & Now | Anders Sandberg, FHI

Watch all videos – regularly updated – on our Sanity Preserver playlist:

Youtube Playlist

Up next:

  • Introduction to Agoric Smart Contracts | Dean Tribble, Agoric
  • Considering Deliberate Exposure | Robin Hanson, George Mason University
  • Potential Upsides of COVID-19 | Creon Levit, Planet Labs
  • Synthetic Coronavirus Vaccines and Peptide Therapeutics | Andre Watson, Ligandal
  • Pronomos: Better Cities, Better Laws | Patri Friedman, Pronomos Capital
  • SARS-CoV-2 | Jim O’Neill, SENS Research Foundation
  • Freak the Data | Jake Harper, Zoox
  • Managing Public Opinion in Crises and Disasters | Kimberly Osborne, University of Georgia, DoD
  • … schedule updated regularly: apply to speak!

The Foresight Daily Sanity Preserver

Purpose:

  • Creating community for isolating folks across the globe and connecting on shared topics of interest
  • Making sense of COVID-19 and surface projects in need of support
  • Leveraging the current crisis for change toward long-term beneficial futures

 

How to join:

  • We meet twice a day (9-10 am PT to allow Europe & co to join, 6-7 pm PT to allow Asia & co to join)
  • The daily schedule has speakers, applications, Zoom room, notes, in short, all you need to know, in one place 
  • Track time zones and don’t miss out on future events by saving our Google calendar to your calendar
Daily Schedule

Can you help us grow community from this crisis?

 We can’t wait to see you up to twice a day in the coming weeks! 

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