Tag Archives: Tony Czarnecki

Futurist feedback – “fun, frightening and fruitful”

Dear Futurists, 1.) More feedback on ‘Future Superhuman’ More feedback for the book Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century, has steadily been accumulating since the London Futurists webinar with the same name as the book was first … Continue reading

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Controversies over “control”

Dear Futurists, I’ve received varying feedback about the title of the event we’re holding tomorrow. Some of you like the title: “How might we control AI, before AI controls us?” You accept the need to apply restrictions to AI. But … Continue reading

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Our make-or-break century

Dear Futurists, “Staying as we are” isn’t a viable option for us humans in the remainder of this century. Nor is there an option to somehow revert to an imagined earlier, simpler form of human civilisation. Fast-changing technology and global … Continue reading

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Anticipating a sea-change in public attitude

Dear Futurists, What changes the world? Sometimes an individual person can change the world. Consider Napoleon, Margaret Thatcher, Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, Martin Luther King, Catherine the Great, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Sometimes an invention changes the world. Consider the printing … Continue reading

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Futurism on a Sunday morning

Dear Futurists, Yes, I know it’s actually a Saturday morning as I write and distribute this newsletter, whereas the headline refers to Sunday morning. The headline refers to a new experiment for London Futurists, taking place tomorrow, which is to … Continue reading

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Fork In The Road

Dear Futurists, The first item in this newsletter is a copy of a manifesto created by three distinguished futurists: Gerd Leonhard, David Houle, and Glen Hiemstra. They call the manifesto “Fork in the Road”, and are inviting people to read … Continue reading

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