Presenter Sara Walker, ASU Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist interested in the origin of life and how to find life on other worlds. While there are many things to be solved, she is most interested in whether or not there are ‘laws of life’ – related to how information structures the physical… Continue reading Sara Walker, ASU | Unraveling Life’s Beginnings with the Cosmic Perspective
Presenter Kevin Kelly, Wired Magazine I’ve been jotting down bits of advice I wished I had known earlier in my life, and then sharing them with my children. Each one is like a tweet — a wisdom tweet. This year I have put 450 of them into a pocket-sized book, called Excellent Advice for Living.… Continue reading Kevin Kelly, Wired Magazine | Pioneering Visions of a High-Tech Future
Presenter Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Anders Sandberg is a Swedish researcher, futurist and transhumanist. He holds a PhD in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University, and is currently a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow at Reuben College. Risto Uuk, Future of Life… Continue reading Anders Sandberg, Risto Uuk, Haydn Belfield | X-Hope Meetup by Foresight Institute & Impact Academy
Presenter David Deutsch, University of Oxford David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating… Continue reading Existential Hope | David Deutsch: On Beauty, Knowledge, and Progress
Presenter Anders Sandberg, Oxford University Anders Sandberg’s research at the Future of Humanity Institute centres on management of low-probability high-impact risks, estimating the capabilities of future technologies, and very long-range futures.Anders is a Senior Research Fellow on the ERC UnPrEDICT Programme. Topics of particular interest include global catastrophic risk, cognitive biases, cognitive enhancement… Summary: In… Continue reading Anders Sandberg | Grand Futures & The Post-Human Coral Reef
