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Futurists Meetings

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Minnesota Futurists 2011 Home Page

Current Meeting & Topic Schedule

Regular Meetings are Saturdays from 9:30-11:30 AM Directions

Knights of Columbus Building - Meeting Room, 1114 American Blvd West, Bloomington, MN

Special Assessment: Members are requested to contribute $20 each for the specific purchase of copies of audio tracks from WFS 2010 and 2011. Send your check to Hank Lederer, Treasurer, 3132 County Road 101. Minnetonka, MN 55391. Thank you. David K., Chapter President. Update July 23, 2011: half way point surpassed, 2011 set has been ordered. drk

November 5, 2011

Topic: Future Studies

Title: How does futures research incorporate cybernetic theory?

Presenter: George Kubik, PhD

Abstract: Join us this Saturday as we explore the subject of cybernetics in machines, biology, and humans. Starting with the ancient Greeks, we will examine cybernetic thinking through the 1800s, 1900s, the present, and into the future. The evolving principles of cybernetics will be presented using examples drawn from governors on steam engines, negative feedback cycles of thermostats, principles of deviation amplifying mutual causality, developing string theory and the creation of local physics. Join us as we explore the relationship(s) between futures studies and the multiple orders of cybernetics.

November 12, 2011

Topic: Economic & Finance Futures

Title: "The Neurobiology of Decision Making"

Presenter: Dr. Paul Glimcher: Nobel Conference Video

Moderator: David Keenan

Abstract: Professor Glimcher teaches Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology at New York University - In this talk he reports on studies that address how the brain sets economic values and processes of the decision making process.

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eay55Cd7qzg&list=PLA1D7BD1295076BB1&index=6&feature=plpp_video

November 15, 2011 MN Futurist Board Meeting

Tuesday 6:30 - 8:30 pm, Knights of Columbus Hall

November 19, 2011

Topic: Technology Futures

Title: Super Conductivity Futures

Presenter: Mark Linafelter

Abstract: coming soon

November 26, 2011 No Meeting This Weekend

(Thanksgiving Long Weekend)

December 03, 2011

Topic: Future Studies

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December 10, 2011

Topic: TBD

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December 17, 2011

Topic: The Mind Body Connection

Title: Brain Gate

Presenter: Brian Toren and Hank Lederer

Abstract: This topic addresses the insertion of microchips in the brain to enable paraplegics and individuals who have received of prosthetics to control their environment through their thought process.

The SIG will begin with the playing of the 2011 Gustavus Adolphus Nobel presentation on the subject by John Donoghue: Henry Merritt Wriston Professor, Department of Neuroscience, and Director, Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, Providence, R.I.

The following quote from the Gustavus Adolphus web site: "For more than 20 years John Donoghue has conducted research on brain-computer interfaces, and his laboratory is internationally recognized as a leader in this field. His research investigates fundamental and translational aspects of cortical information processing that lead to skilled motor behavior and the way ensembles of neurons represent and transform information through their interactions within local regions and between the primary motor cortex and its major cortical input areas. His work helps to explain how networks of neurons compute motor actions and transform sensory and internal plans into specific movements of the limbs. One of the most significant breakthroughs in the field of neural interface systems occurred when Donoghue’s group restored the ability of a quadriplegic patient to operate computer cursors and robotic arms by imagining the movement." The session will begin with a showing of the video of Dr. Donoghue's presentation

Their will be a discussion afterwards addressing:

What the participants got from the video.

What the future holds (possible, probable, preferable)

And what unexpected consequences there may be.

See.

Gustavus 2011

Dr Donoghue's presentation video

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Topics Pending for 2011

Future schedule work in progress

Roundtable: Tech Breakthrough Forecasts for 2015-2020

See topics awaiting dates above.