The Future We Leave Behind

A Long Now Boston Conversation with Michael Hawley, Nathaniel Raymond and Ethan Zuckerman.

Nathaniel A. Raymond

Nathaniel A. Raymond is Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman is Director, Center for Civic Media and Associate Professor of the Practice at MIT’s Media Lab, and the author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection,

Michael Hawley

Michael Hawley was an educator, computer scientist, musician and photographer who served as impresario of EG (https://www.egconf.com) and taught at MIT.

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Event Summary

This panel affirmed that history informs our future thinking and, with a deep time long term view, we need to consider the history subsequent generations will inherit. A looming challenge is the re-writing of history [yes, it’s happened for thousands of year] but the social sphere and raw processing power at hand to spoon-feed clickbait to the masses puts us all at risk.

Algorithms…AI…Government Regulation. What can we do to mitigate the effects of an Orwellian approach? This is not about politics. It’s about the right to information; safeguarding identity; stewarding the humanities; protecting the right to choose. What impact is the technological revolution having on us and our planet for the next 10,000 years?