[extropy-chat] Toronto FORESIGHT 2020 SEMINAR on Smart Technology

[Jose Cordeiro]

FYI

Walter Derzko <wderzko at pathcom.com> wrote:        st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                FYI
   
  If any of your WFS local chapter members are interested in smart technologies, I’d love to collaborate with them
   
  Walter Derzko
  1-416-533-9667
  Toronto Canada
  Walter.derzko at utoronto.ca
  http://smarteconomy.typepad.com
   
   
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  Toronto FORESIGHT 2020 SEMINAR
   
  Date:         Tuesday December 13th
  Time:         7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
  Place:        Toronto Metro Hall ( s/e corner of King and John Streets )
                    Room 303    
Speaker:    Walter Derzko, CERES Associate, MUNK Center for International Studies, University of Toronto
  Topic:       Smart Technologies , How innovations with built-in intelligence will radically transform business & society
   
  The Smart Economy  has been steadily evolving since the emergence of several key technology breakthroughs in the late 1990‘s.  Smart or intelligent technologies are more than just cars with dozens of microchips- they are a whole new family of existing and emerging artifacts, objects, innovations and inventions that exhibit some form of intelligence along a divergent spectrum.  This could range from the simple ability to sense and respond to a set of predetermined external environmental conditions, right up to exhibiting complex awareness, cognition, self-reproduction and self-healing, if injured.
   
  Mr. Derzko will showcase some key disruptive smart technologies from medicine, agriculture, construction, business and other fields and finally present his newest research on how creative clusters of smart technologies can effectively address the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.
   
   
  Walter Derzko is a consultant, lecturer and author, who has been exploring smart technologies since 1998.  Formerly Lateral Thinker in Residence at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto and the former Director of the Idea Lab at the Design Exchange in Toronto, Walter now focuses his attention on new business development, strategic thinking and scenario planning, and emerging smart technologies.  He is currently an associate of CERES, at the MUNK Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto, working on a scenario lab project.  Walter's daily blog -The Smart Economy-keeps smart technology enthusiasts up to date on breakthroughs and milestones in the discipline.  http://smarteconomy.typepad.com
   
   
  Hope to see you at this leading edge session! Please RSVP to:
  David Woolfson
  Coordinator
  woolfson at bellnet.ca
   






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