Imagining 2084: A Utopian Perspective

What might the world look like if we did everything right for the next 60 years?

The inspirational new book by Michael Rogers, Email from the Future: Notes from 2084, covers topics ranging from healthcare, education, and advanced AI, to space travel, marriage, mind preservation, gaming, and religion - as well as the next phase of human evolution.

Whilst optimistic about what humanity can achieve, the book is also refreshingly realistic about the challenges facing us in the decades ahead.

Michael says that writing this book led him to ponder the legacy of Utopian literature, and its potential relevance to contemporary futurism.

Michael will be joining London Futurists to discuss themes arising from his book and his wider research.

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This event will be hosted on Zoom. To register, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zaoL4DkxT4S1Ib1qW32eTg

The Zoom registration fee (UKP £2.50) helps cover London Futurists running costs. (The Zoom registration page opens a PayPal interface, but there is NO requirement for attendees to use a PayPal account.)

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.

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Michael Rogers is an author and futurist, who also served as futurist-in-residence for The New York Times. His consultancy, Practical Futurist, has worked with companies ranging from FedEx and NBC Universal to GE and Microsoft.

Michael was a writer for Rolling Stone and co-founded Outside magazine. He then launched Newsweek’s technology column and was vice president of The Washington Post Company's new media division, earning patents for his work as well as awards for his online coverage of 9/11. He is also a best-selling novelist whose books have been published worldwide.

Michael studied physics and creative writing at Stanford University, with additional work at the Stanford Business School Executive Program.

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Sample praise for Email from the Future:

“A compelling series of speculations about what the next century will be like … Not only readable, but deeply thought-provoking.”
-- Kirkus Reviews

“Michael Rogers is a perfect mix of astounding thought and experience and application. His career as a journalist and writer has given him not only a unique pattern recognition, but rarer still today, an ability to really listen and provoke us to think.”
-- Chris Schroeder, author of “Startup Rising”

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The webinar will start broadcasting at 4pm UK time on Sat 1st Oct. To find this time in other timezones, use https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20221001T150000&p1=136

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

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