About us
It's not that we know the future, but we are interested in learning about current trends and how they may develop going forward.
What will your life be like 10, 20, 30 years from now? What is possible, probable, and preferable? How should you prepare? What will be the effects of trends that are developing now on your employment, family, health, and community? How will advances in science and technology affect economics, politics, culture, society, business, geopolitics, and more? What are the challenges and opportunities?
If you are interested in how the world is developing and what that might mean for the future, sign up for our Meetup, and you will receive notices of upcoming meetings.
These are the areas that are explored at meetings of Minnesota Futurists.
GENERAL AREAS OF INTEREST - Technology | Sociology | Demographics | Economics | World Affairs | Ecology and the Environment | Genetics, ,Medicine and Health Care | Wealth and Power | Energy | Automation, and Robotics | Transhumanism I Information Networks
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you look at past meetings, it often shows that between 4-6 people sign up for most meetings. In actuality, between 12 and 20 people attend virtually every Saturday morning.
Who are MN Futurists? Established in 1968, Minnesota Futurists is a group of curious people interested in understanding the evolution and state of current social, cultural, economic, geopolitical, scientific, and technological trends and phenomena and then considering [1] the probability of them persisting, accelerating, or regressing, [2] the probable and possible implications if they do, and [3] the future we prefer along with strategies and tactics for moving toward it.
Upcoming events
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Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided
·OnlineOnlineThe core discussion begins at 10:00 AM. From 9:30 AM to 10:00 we talk about random bits, where anyone can share interesting observations that may effect the future.
## Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided
Recent rapid advances in coding sophisticated computer programs with increasing agentic power by words alone instead of long sequences of computer language instructions have accelerated fears of rapid massive unemployment of people with a wide range of currently in demand white collar skills. While such advances are likely to create huge rapid advances in science, medicine, & general productivity, history an does not auger well for society’s proclivity to rapidly mitigate the huge disruptions caused by such advances in the past, nor to spread the benefits to the population in general, and these changes are coming far faster now than in previous industrial revolutions.
Presenter - Eric Hand
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Gut Brain Connection: Future of Digestive and Mental Health
·OnlineOnlineFrom 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM we discuss RANDOM BITS where anybody can bring information to the group that might be useful or important when considering the future. Then the presentation starts at 10 AM and lasts until noon. There is usually some time for discussion.
The gut-brain connection is a bidirectional communication network (the gut-brain axis) linking the enteric nervous system in the digestive tract with the central nervous system, primarily via the vagus nerve. Often called the "second brain," this connection allows physical health to directly influence mood, and vice versa, through neurotransmitters like serotonin.
Presenter - Stan Bissinger
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Passcode: 9146466 attendees
Past events
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