The Future Now Show
October 2014 .
about 3-D printing
and medicine, marketing made meaningful, Balanced Communities
and ...
Featuring
Lise Voldeng, CEO & Chief Creative Officer, Ultra-Agent Industries
Inc.
Mylena de Pierremont, Board Member, World Future Society
Patrick Crehan, CEO and Founder, Crehan, Kusano & Associates
Markus Petz, Head of Special Projects & Development, Experience
Alternative Tampere
about 3-D
printing and medicine, marketing made meaningful and ...
3-D printing
services are popping up everywhere, but, given their low scalability,
where will their biggest impact be? Patrick Crehan reckons that
it will be in printing living things. Not whole beasts but organs, from
skin (already available) to hearts. The panel discusses the ethical
implications, pulling in the increasing ability to build life from DNA
up. Sounds scary? It probably isn’t. Probably…
Talking
about scary, what about massive corporations, whose wealth affords enormous
power but whose primary driving force (shareholder value) is fundamentally
amoral? Mylena de Pierremont suggests that societal pressures
(presumably fuelled by enhanced global communication and wider investor
spread) are driving a new business model whereby things like transparency,
sustainability and corporate responsibility equate to shareholder value.
Maybe those ‘evil giants’ need not be defeated but can be
converted. – By Paul Holister, Editor
about Balanced
Communities and ...
Mark
Petz introduces the ‘global village’, as typified by the
balance4yourlife project, billed as a new form of ‘intentional
community’ – a sustainable urban village firmly anchored in
the modern, interconnected world. While global populations are increasingly
migrating to cities and city living is proving the most sustainable,
can this concept buck that trend? After all, modern communications are
often making geographical proximity less important. The attraction of
villages, green fields and trees aside, is the small inclusive community,
for which humans have arguably evolved, the antithesis of the impersonal
anonymity of city life. Is the global village then a potential model
for the future, maybe alongside cities? And will we all be invited?
– By Paul Holister, Editor
and
Mark
Petz talks with Anette Pekrul about balance4yourlife.org
"the world’s First Holistic Multi-cultural Multi-Generation
Collective Community".
The
Future Now Show October 2014 features
The
Future Now Show
October 2014
Credits
Moderator
Lise Voldeng, CEO & Chief Creative Officer, Ultra-Agent
Industries Inc.
Thought Leaders
Mylena de Pierremont, Board Member, World Future Society
Patrick Crehan, CEO and Founder, Crehan, Kusano & Associates
Markus Petz, Head of Special Projects & Development, Experience
Alternative Tampere
and
Mario de Vries, Media Specialist, Design
Paul Holister, Editor,
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