*I like it when PHYSORG is promoting gigs where I keynote.
Emerge attracts futurists to collaborate with scientists, designers artists is redesign of future
February 24th, 2012
Singular questions about what it means to be human in the face of emerging technologies will be explored March 1-3 when Arizona State University hosts Emerge. (((Boy, that's for sure.)))
An unparalleled campus-wide collaboration, Emerge unites artists, engineers, bio scientists, social scientists, story tellers and designers to build, draw, write and rethink the future of the human species and the environments that we share.
Leaders from industry and prominent authors and futurists will join ASU faculty and selected students for an intense exploration of emerging technology and the implications of those breakthroughs for people and environments.
"This is a time for humanists, artists and designers to leave their ivory tower and seek to integrate their knowledge in interdisciplinary teams that design the future,'' said Professor Thanassis Rikakis, director of the ASU School of Arts, Media and Engineering in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and one of the principal organizers of the event.
The three-day conference has attracted such internationally prominent change makers and futurists as author Bruce Sterling (Beyond the Beyond),(((
