Insights November 16th, 2017

The future of AR with Kharis O'Connell
Humans and machines have been interacting for half a century, and we’ve come a long way from the punched cards of old. But in the last 20 years, the pace of innovation in human-computer interaction has really accelerated.
New interfaces, and the peace dividends of the mobile phone and game console wars, have given us new ways to work with data, algorithms, and machines. In this talk, Meta’s Kharis O’Connell looks at the last 20 years of human-computer interaction, what impact it’s had on the world, and how that impact has in turn influenced new forms of immersive technology. Ultimately, he’ll conclude that the promise of Augmented Reality is really about humans, and how we understand and interact with the world around us.

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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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