The Future of You

'Who am I?' is one of the most fundamental questions of all. But it is becoming increasingly difficult to answer as technology enables us to negotiate and create many different versions of ourselves.

In this webinar, Tracey Follows will be joining London Futurists to explore how our personal identity, freedoms, and potential will be transformed over the coming decades.

In our digital, data-driven world, Facebook gets a say in verifying who we are, science can alter our biology, and advances in AI are revolutionizing not only how we interact online but with the physical world around us. Understanding and defining ourselves is becoming confusing.

From health passports, bio-hacking, and relationships with machines, to mind clones, digital voting, and virtual legacies beyond the grave, we need to understand these vital issues today so that we might design the future of our identity tomorrow.

Drawing on themes from her forthcoming new book "The Future of You", Tracey will suggest how we can preserve our autonomy whilst embracing this new era of transformation. Digital technology is causing us to think differently about who we are and who we could become, but with the right knowledge we can turn this incredible capacity to our advantage.

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This event will be hosted on Zoom. To register, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XQg5FVoZSHej4riLqKUD-Q

The Zoom registration fee (UKP £2.50) helps cover London Futurists running costs, such as software licensing. The webinar can also be viewed, without charge, on the London Futurists YouTube channel, but without the option to participate in the live Q&A.

(The Zoom registration page opens a PayPal interface, but there is NO requirement for attendees to use a PayPal account.)

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Tracey Follows is a professional futurist consultant who works with global brands, specializing in the application of foresight to boost business.

As a member of the Association of Professional Futurists and World Futures Studies Federation, and a former Head of Strategy at Wired, she help clients understand the next generation of consumerism to help them make decisions, with the future in mind.

Tracey has spoken at the UN HQ in New York, delivered a TedX at the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and debated at The House of Commons.

Her recent projects includes: Future of Work, Responsible Technology, Age of Ethics, Future of Media, Future of Marketing, Future of Retail, Future of Crime and Justice, Future of Luxury, and Sustainable Futures.

She was the winner of Adage 'Woman to Watch' 2017, Women in Marketing Award 2016 for Outstanding Contribution, and the Inaugural Creative Strategy Lion Jury President at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

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The webinar will start broadcasting at 4pm UK time on Sat 20th March. To find this time in other timezones, see https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210320T160000&p1=136

You are advised to log into Zoom up to 10 minutes ahead of the publicised start time of the event, so you won't miss the start of the live broadcast.

As the discussion proceeds, attendees will be welcome to raise questions and vote to prioritise questions raised by others.

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To register for this event, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XQg5FVoZSHej4riLqKUD-Q