Grappling with the Futures conference at Harvard and Boston Universities

Yashar Saghai, MP’s Senior Scholar courageously organized a two-day conference at Harvard and Boston Universities focused on synergies among philosophy, history, and STS (Science, Technology, and Society) scholars with futurists and foresight. The Millennium Project was a co-sponsor. There were a total of 43 presentations with speakers from 18 countries; around 70 participants joined the Symposium, in addition to speakers. Abstracts of the talks are downloadable here.

In addition to Ted Gordon and me, Millennium Project Node chairs from Bulgaria, Pakistan, Silicon Valley, and Brussels Area attended and two from the Art/Media Node and a former MP Intern recorded the sessions and plan to make a video of the event.

After the conference some of us visited the MIT Media Lab, participated in an event organized by the Future of Life Institute, and/or benefited from other post-symposium events: the Insider Access Art at MIT List Visual Arts Center Tour; the MIT Trope Tank Tour, the Greentown Labs Tour. And a few went on the next day to visit the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library – all great experiences!