Joseph Dickerson@josephdickerson

A utopian future

•The future that we see in Star Trek still has its challenges, but in general... life is good

•There’s no poverty or hunger

•Countries (and worlds) coexist in peace

•Diversity is celebrated

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“There will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.”

How do we get there? We're

already on our way...

2012 has been the greatest year in the history of the world. Never has there been less hunger, less disease or more prosperity... people are being lifted out of poverty at the fastest rate ever recorded. The death toll inflicted by war and natural disasters is also mercifully low. We are living in a golden age.

The Spectator Magazine, Dec. 2012

“We are locally optimistic, and

globally pessimistic"

Abundance book

Human Nature

Technology

A base standard of living

(and the end of money?)

"Tech philanthropists"

Human Nature

A few words abut human psychology

and biases...

Some biases we all have or encounter...

Confirmation Bias

Bandwagon Effect

Negativity Bias

“If it bleeds, it leads”

We live in what some have called a “fear-based media” world

"If utopia does come, it won't be because human nature changes, or because some governmental authority or alien race forces it upon us, but because we manage to create new social structures more conducive to satisfying human needs and values."

Dennis Fox, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Springfield

Technology

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-03/smooth-refreshing-seawater

A Base Standard of Living (and the end

of money?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI

“This generation of human beings has access to more calories, watts, lumen-hours, square-feet, gigabytes, megahertz, light-years, nano-meters, bushels per acre, miles per gallon, food miles, air miles, and, of course, dollars than any that went before.”

from Abundance

Tech Philanthropists

•Smartphones

•X-Prize

•Lab-on-a-chip

Tricorders

Closing

Gene's dream

“We're just beginning. We have wonders ahead of us. I don't see how it can be any other way, with the way the future is going. We now have got a telescope up there, photographing the universe. We're inventing the next life form, the computer.

We're in the midst of it. And it will happen."

Making it happen

DO SOMETHING

Thank you!

Joseph Dickersonjosephdickerson.com

@josephdickerson