Past Presentations - John Smart

Past Presentations - John Smart

A partial list of conferences and seminars where I have presented on trends and issues in accelerating change, evolutionary development, futures studies, science and technology studies, technology policy and assessment, the technological and developmental singularity hypotheses, and related subjects.

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2005

2004

2003

2005
FBI Futures Working Group, March 1 (Phoenix, AZ)
"Homeland Security and Policing: Opportunities and Challenges of Accelerating Change" (PPT)
San Diego Future Salon, March 4 (San Diego, CA)
"Creating the Symbiotic Age: Futurism and Activism" (updated in LV talk below)
University of Houston, Studies of the Future M.S., April 6 (Online)
"Online Community Design: Tools, Techniques and Tips for Better Digital Dialog" (PPT)
Las Vegas Future Salon, April 8 (Las Vegas, NV)
"Catalyzing the Symbiotic Age: Discovering, Predicting and Creating AC" (PPT)
POST Command College, April 11 (Oxnard, CA)
"Anticipating the Symbiotic Age: Law Enforcement and Accelerating Change" (PPT)

2004
Vital Progress Summit, February 15-29 (Online)
"The Limitations of 21st Century Biotechnology"
LA Futurists, April 9 (Santa Monica, CA)
"Singularity Economics" (PPT)
Fusion 2004, May 21-23 (June Lake, CA)
Small-group personal goalsetting and foresight strategies.
WorldFuture 2004, July 31-August 2 (Washington, DC)
"Evolutionary Development for Futurists."
U.S. Army War College, August 18 (Carlisle, PA)
"Adapting to the Future" (PPT)
POST Command College, Sept 15 (Oxnard, CA)
"Adapting to the Future"
World Technology Summit 2004, Oct 8 (San Francisco, CA)
"Introduction to Accelerating Change" (PPT)
Space Frontier Conference 2004, Oct 9 (Long Beach, CA)
"Exploring Micro and Macro Frontiers" (PPT)
Accelerating Change 2004 (AC2004), November 5-7 (Stanford U, Palo Alto, CA).
"The Symbiotic Age: AC, Personality Capture, and the CUI" (PPT)

2003
Foresight Gathering 2003, May 2-4 (Palo Alto, CA)
"The Developmental Singularity Paradigm"
TransVision 2003, June 27-29 (Yale U, New Haven, CT)
"Development after DeChardin: Our Accelerating Technological Frontier"
WFS2003: WorldFutures, July 18-20 (San Francisco, CA)
"Understanding the Singularity: Meta-Trends in Accelerating Change."
Humanity 3000: Seminar 4, August 21-13 (Bellvue, WA)
"Multigenerational Implications of Accelerating Change"
Accelerating Change 2003 (AC2003), Sept. 12-14 (Stanford U, Palo Alto, CA).
"A Brief History of Concepts in Accelerating Change"
Woodside Forum 2003, Sept. 24-25 (Menlo Park, CA)
"Accelerating Change: Horizon Issues for Big Business"
Futures of the World, November 5-7 (Mexico City, Mexico)
"Technological Singularity: Implications for Third World Development."
U.S. Army War College, December 8 (Carlisle, PA)
"Accelerating Change: Long-Run Considerations for the U.S. Military."