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LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE

   The world is changing at an increasingly rapid rate, but no one is sure where society is really headed. What are the forces that will have the greatest impact on the future? Will humanity come together or break apart? What actions can we take now to ensure a better future? People who study these issues are called “futurists”, and we have two futurists on this month’s episode of Future Talk.

   John Smart is director of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, cofounder of the Evo Devo Universe  

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research community, and director of the Emerging Technology masters degree program at the University of Advancing Technology. He has a master’s degree in future studies from the University of Houston and is a frequent blogger on futurist issues.

   David Passig is an Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he heads the Graduate Program in Information and Communication Technology as well as the Virtual Reality Lab. He's written two books that were bestsellers in Israel,  “The Future Code” and “2048”, and he has a Ph.D. in Anticipatory Anthropology from the University of Minnesota.

    Topics discussed include the methodology of futurism, possible future scenarios, and some of the factors that will most impact the future, such as technological development and demographic change.

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