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Insights April 10th, 2017

On April 6th, 2017, Nikolas Badminton hosted the Meetup group Canada Futurists: Toronto met to discuss the Future of Democracy. Here are some links from this great meetup – thanks for coming.
Who will win the French presidential election? A punter’s guide to the upset to come
Liquid Democracy:

Delegative Democracy
Screaming Lord Sutch
Seasteading
The Floating City Project Plan, The Seasteading Institute:

Adam Curtis – HyperNormalisation:

Adam Curtis – Oh Dearism:

Tragedy or triumph? Russians agonise over how to mark 1917 revolutions
Yuval Noah Harari – Nationalism vs. Globalism
Khanna: ‘Technocracy Is Not A Liberal Phenomenon’
The Californian Ideology
Zuckerberg for President?
Despotism
Artificial General Intelligence
Robert Reich: “Preparing Our Economy for the Impact of Automation & AI” | Talks at Google:

Gattaca (trailer):

The Age of Em (Book)
Movie Theatres Plot Trump Protest With ‘1984’ Screenings
High Park Day School (Toronto)
Elon Musk didn’t like his kids’ school, so he made his own small, secretive school without grade levels
The Modern Futures Podcast – Ep006: Coworking, Community, and The Future of Work with Denise Brennan
The Venus Project
Iain M. Banks Culture Series
Blue Zone
 

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Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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