The Symposium was based on the understanding that the future will be more complex, more interconnected, and more uncertain than the past or even the present day. This video features several Symposium participants who share what was discussed in the sessions on Political Economies.

The Symposium was based on the understanding that the future will be more complex, more interconnected, and more uncertain than the past or even the present day. This video features several Symposium participants who share what was discussed in the sessions on Environment.

2045: A New Era for Humanity

Alan Steinfeld of http://www.NewRealities.com hosts a panel of futurists: Drs. JJ Hurtak & Desiree Hurtak - both with the Academy for Future Science, Stuart Mason Dambrot of Critical Thought TV and Oonagh O'Regan, founder of Market Assist.

In this video Ray Kurzweil discusses his predictions about radical life extension, singularity, life expansion and the imminence of physical immortality. He invites participants to the second international Global Future 2045 congress (June 2013).

The interaction between humans and technology has changed drastically in the last 20 years. This relationship shapes our society in positive and negative ways, and the next 20 years promises to bring about even more profound changes.

An interview with educator and author Joel Garreau after his keynote at the 2011 Forward with Ford Conference. We talked about the ways technology is evolving the human race. We also discussed his three scenarios for human-machine interactions.

Professor Nick Bostrom, Director & James Martin Research Fellow, Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute and of the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford Martin School.

The end of humanity: Nick Bostrom at TEDxOxford

Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanity to solve our most intrinsic problems.