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Vancouver Futurists: The Future of Health

Insights April 10th, 2017

On March 23rd, 2017, Nikolas Badminton hosted the Meetup group Canada Futurists: Vancouver met to discuss the Future of Health. Here are some links from this great meetup – thanks for coming.
“The First Human on Earth to Live to Be 1,000 Years Old is Alive Today”
Aubrey de Grey: A roadmap to end aging
SAN JUNIPERO (BLACK MIRROR S3E4) Trailer (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpMi9_bZ1Q
My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality:

Kicking Heroin with an Ibogaine Ceremony
Scientific Problem Solving with Psychedelics – James Fadiman
Microdosing: The Revolutionary Way of Using Psychedelics
CRISPR—a weapon of mass destruction?
Cancer Moonshot℠
Cancer miracle: Expensive last-ditch drug results in remission
Global Population Falling As Human Fertility Declines
Now You Can Test Sperm on an App for Your Smartphone
DNA dating site predicts chemical romance
Scent of a Man: Women Can Sniff Out a Hot Guy
How Dogs Can Sniff Out Diabetes and Cancer
AIDS: Don’t Die Of Ignorance:

“Thud” – On Being Sane in Insane Places. pt 1
David Rosenhan: Being Sane in Insane Places
DIY Bacterial Gene Engineering CRISPR Kit
Drug ‘vending machines’ provide timely, safe access to medication
Carl Zimmer explains the CRISPR DNA editing system in 90 seconds:

Fecal microbiota transplant
Eating poop pills could make you thin. Seriously
Tuberculosis-resistant cows developed for the first time using CRISPR technology

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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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