We strive to be good ancestors.
April 1, 02019. Doors open @ 6pm — Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers — Presentation starts @ 7pm.
See the post-event summary: Robotic Futures – A Cyborg Vision.
A Long Now Boston Community Conversation with Bruce Blumberg, Principal UX Engineer at Universal Robots.
Continue reading “Robotic Futures: Reading Minds & Mastering Gentle Touch (4/1/02019)”March 4, 02019 Doors open @ 6pm — Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers — Presentation starts @ 7pm. Tickets available via Eventbrite
See the post-event summary: DNA – Our Past is Our Future
A Long Now Boston Community Conversation with
Preston Estep CSO and co-founder, Veritas Genetics
and
Dennis Grishin CSO and co-founder, Nebula Genomics
Feb 4, 02019
A Long Now Boston Community Conversation with Roberto Kolter, Director, Kolter lab for Microbiology and Scott Chimileski, Microbiologist, Science Photographer and Author
See the post-event summary: Reimagining the Microbial World
Sometimes what you can’t see is best. When you can see it, it’s even better!
Continue reading “Reimagining The Microbial World”Doors open @ 6pm — Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers — Presentation starts @ 7pm
December 3, 02018: A Long Now Boston Community Conversation with
Robin Chase, Transportation Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Zipcar
See the after-event writeup for a discussion of this event.
Hollywood and the comic books get it all wrong. There are no flying cars. Yet.
Continue reading “The Future of Transportation: Autonomy and Interdependence”Doors open @ 6pm — Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers — Presentations start @ 7pm
November 27, 02018: A Long Now Boston Community Conversation with
Kirk Bosma, P.E. Woods Hole Group and Paul Kirshen, Ph.D., UMass Boston
See the after-event writeup for a discussion of this event.
“Well I love that dirty water…Oh, Boston, you’re my home”
Continue reading “Climate Change and the Future of the Boston Coastline”Doors open @ 6pm — Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers — Presentations start @ 7pm
October 2, 02018: A Long Now Boston Community Conversation with
Richard Mallah and Lucas Perry, The Future of Life Institute [FLi]
See the after-event writeup for a discussion of this event.
What happens when we ask the algorithms to make decisions for us – decisions that may have life and death consequences?
Continue reading “The Knife Edge of Value Alignment in AI: Utopia or Extinction”Doors open @ 6pm — Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers — Presentations start @ 7pm
September 10, 02018A Long Now Boston Community Conversation with
Barry Bluestone, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
Tamara M. Roy, Principal with Stantec, Boston, and past President of the Boston Society of Architects and
Peter Rose, FAIA, FRAIC, Rose and Partners Architects, Boston
See the after-event writeup for a discussion of this event.
Three of Boston’s pre-eminent leaders in housing and urban design will guide this Long Now Boston conversation on the future of housing.
Continue reading “The Future of Housing in Boston and Beyond”Seven words encapsulate our summer picnic celebration.
We have been creating a solid foundation.
LongNowBoston wants to celebrate with our community.
Please join us to continue the conversations.
Help us to encourage long term thinking.
Foster responsibility in the 10,000 year framework.
May 7, 02018: A Long Now Boston Conversation with
Juan Enriquez — Futurist, Educator, Author, Venture Investor
See the after-event writeup for a discussion of this event.
An interactive conversation on the structure and formation of moral norms and the profound influence technology exerts on those norms.
Continue reading “The Influence of Technology on our Moral Norms: Who Decides?”
April 5, 02018: A Long Now Boston Conversation with
Professor Loren J. Samons II, Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University
See the after-event writeup for a discussion of this event.
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” — Winston Churchill Continue reading “The Myth of Democracy? From Pericles’ Athens to Modern Times”