From Bad to Bright Future: How to make it happen

There are many near-future scenarios in which worrying trends in the present make all our lives much worse in the years ahead. This situation has been called "The Bad Future". In this online event, Tony Czarnecki will be leading a conversation he calls "From Bad to Bright Future: How to Make it Happen".

This will be held inside a special Zoom Meeting room. As an experiment, no advance registration is required, but you will arrive in a Waiting Room until a co-host admits you. By default, please keep your mics muted. You will be welcome to turn on your cameras, and to exchange comments (respectfully, please) in the Chat window.

Here's a link to the event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82167994008?pwd=V3sICUwFn5515Bp88JMtFOeqkPAfqX.1

You can take part, either from a Zoom app if you have installed it, or from a web browser.

(Aside: This new format for our mid-week online get-togethers is a intended to become a replacement for our previous series of Discord Swarm events.)

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Tony Czarnecki is a futurist and the Managing Partner of Sustensis Ltd, London - a think tank on humanity's transition to coexistence with Superintelligence. He has lectured at Universities in Central Europe as a visiting professor, where he supervised two master degree courses at two Universities.

He also lectures at several London Universities. Recently, he presented a series of lectures on ‘The work and lifestyle in the age of Artificial Intelligence’. A similar lecture was delivered at the London’s Regents University.

Tony is the author of many articles and six books on the subject of AI, Civilisational Transition and Transhumanism:

Who could save Humanity from Superintelligence? covers one of the top existential threats – developing a malicious Superintelligence.

That was followed by the Posthumans series, consisting of three books:

• The first of these books, Federate to Survive! proposes that the most urgent task for humans to survive beyond this century is for all nations to federate.
• Democracy for a Human Federation suggests that the federalization of the world should be simultaneously accompanied by a deep reform of democracy.
• Becoming a Butterfly is the final book in the series, focusing on the future of a human species after 2050. The author suggests that our future depends on a new system of values, which a superintelligent being may inherit from us.

Towards the Big Consensus…or the Loss of Control Over Our Future posits that the only way to rebuild the trust in politics is to set up a new Social Contract between the governing and the governed and build a Big Consensus fast
Prevail or Fail – a Civilisational Shift to the World of Transhumans, is the most recent book. It argues that the magnitude of the changes required in our lives and global governance is so substantial that we must acknowledge it as a momentous Civilisational Shift in the history of our species.