Each evolutionary step in human civilization has involved intense social turbulence. Change is the most difficult aspect of being human: shifting our own mindset and attitude when we confront a new reality is something that places enormous stress on the human mind and on our social systems. The mixed emotions and cognitive dissonance that occur inside each of us also scale upward into our social fabric: implicit bias against new perspectives, disdain for people who represent “other”, the fear of a new world that is not the same as it has always been, and the hopelessness that we cannot solve our problems. We know from experience that this negativity, hatred, fear, and hopelessness is not what it seems like on the surface: it is a reaction to change. And indeed we are experiencing a period of profound change.
There is a larger story of our evolution that extends well beyond the negativity and despair that feels so real to us today. It’s a story of redefining and building infrastructure around trust, hope and empathy. It’s a story of accelerating human imagination and leveraging it to create new and wondrous things.
It is a story of technological magic that will free us from scarcity and ensure a prosperous lifestyle for everyone, regardless of where they come from. And these are precisely the topics of our larger evolutionary story that you can explore in the Evolution & Human Nature track at WorldFuture 2016.
Human evolution is also entering a phase where we are finally becoming explicitly conscious of our role in the global ecosystem. Because of the efforts of forward-thinking organizations like the Humane Society of the U.S., we are learning to re-integrate human evolution with the evolution of all living beings on the planet.
Our very special Keynote Luncheon Speaker Wayne Pacelle has been on the front lines of this important societal introspection, and a leading voice on how we transform ourselves and our economy to honor and respect all living beings on the planet.
Don’t miss this very special Sunday Keynote Luncheon that explores a critical aspect of the future of human evolution: The Humane Economy.
Sessions Topics in WorldFuture 2016’s Evolution & Human Nature track include:
- Accelerating Human Imagination
- Changing Beliefs and Behaviors to Boost Your
- Future Life
- Cybiomes: A Store of Interdependent, Cyborgian Life
- Hope as Passion for the Possible
- Nanobot Murals: Your Data Will be the Bumpy Texture on Your Walls
- Revitalizing Public Spaces Through Environmental Interactivity
- Scaling Trust
- Storytelling for a Brighter Future
- Techno-Optimism: New Thinking in the Age of
- Futuristic Technologies
- The Rise of Civilization Alpha
- Transformation Through Tiny Tweaks
We’ll see you there!