What kind of world do we want for our young generations?

We talk with activists, scifi visionaries, and pioneering organizations

WATCH IMAGINIZE WORLD ON YOUTUBE 

Can we predict the future? Should we?

Preparing Children for Their Futures, Not Our Pasts – Sugata Mitra

Including Shorts:
• Hole in the Wall and How Kids Learn on Their Own
• 20 years from now?
• Sugata Mitra Predicts Neuralink: “The Internet Will Vanish Into Our Heads”

 

Unanticipating Our Children’s Futures – David Weinberger

Including shorts:
• Creativity, free will, knowledge in the age of AI?
• Unanticipation – essential to Make More Future. It’s strategy of strategies
• Dangers of Conversational Knowledge

Storytelling shapes perceptions, politics, traditions & technology for better futures – Wole Talabi

Including shorts:
• Social ENRAGEMENT
• Stories Converge to Make Reality
• AI For Consulting Ancestors

CLIMATE ACTIVISM: success or failure?

Tackling the Plastic Life Cycle: Environmental & Health Risks – Nirere Sadrach

Including shorts:
• How Brand Audits Expose Big Companies’ Role in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Plastic Life Cycle

After World: Preserve Human Life Or Earth?

Including shorts:
• Why is witnessing important as the world transitions?
• Younger people have lost the most. Can they fix it?
• Can the New Generation Lead the Fight Against Climate Change?
• Extend personhood beyond humans?
• To leave the planet behind

Amplifying African Voices in Climate Activism — Vanessa Nakate

Including shorts:
• Hold leaders accountable • Leaders are not leading, not serving their people.

 

Climate Justice: Grassroots to Global – Nicholas Omonuk

Including shorts:

• Coming soon

 

AI – Friend or Foe?

Will AI Reunite Humanity?

Including shorts:
• Can AI Touch Human Hearts
• Science fiction is more than you think
• Slow Eco Violence
• Invisible People
• Nationalistic ways of thinking harm our climate
• Is this a century of paradigm shift and singularity? Yes!

 

Wikimedia in the Age of AI — Florence Devouard

Including shorts:
• Wikimedia versus TikTok
• Do you know any Wikipedians in Residence? A key role for us today

Sustainable AI That Has Our Backs — Thomas Vander Wal

Including shorts:
• Humans got out of caves by sharing knowledge, unlike generative AI
• Generative AI can be a smart rubber duck, helping us through our ideas
• Does the 15-minute city limit you? Blend in the “near in thought” perspective

 

WELL-BEING in body and mind: a key to the future?

Building Peace in the Face of Violence — Mandar Apte

Including shorts:
• Sustainable Peace – The influence of India on Martin Luther King
• Gandhi to MLK: A Legacy of Nonviolence
• Meditation Workshops in Tough Neigborhoods
• How to Create Freedom

Humanity has no borders –  Robin Vincent-Smith

Including shorts:
• Making children’s health education meaningful through new media & influencers
• Innovative transport by donkeys to help patients reach healthcare
• How to fight misinformation & broken trust? MSF gives voice to patients, shares scientific research.

Will Virtual Reality Become Our Reality?

Why VR & AR Are the Future of Business — Mark Gröb of UPS

Including shorts:
• Shadow learning for safe driving practices
• Why XR Doers Can’t be Replaced By AI

Can Virtual Reality Transform Our Lives? — Cortney Harding

Including shorts:
• Use AI to Find Your Zone of Genius
• The “Never-Figure-It-Out” World

What is the power of DECENTRALIZATION?


Coming soon…

Sohail Inayatullah, first UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies for Sustainability and Humanity

In 2016, Professor Sohail Inayatullah was awarded the first UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies for Sustainability and Humanity, IIUM, Malaysia.
He is also co-host of MetaFutures, an educational think tank that explores alternative and preferred futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them.
He is a Professor at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies) and an Associate, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne.


 

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