A Very Human Future - Enriching Humanity in a Digitized World - US...

Mr. Talwar will be signing books after his presentation. Monday, October 22, 2018 from 6-9pm PT at Vortex Dome Los Angeles 1201 W 5th St F-185, Los Angeles, CA 90017 and Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from 6-9pm PT at Porsche Downtown LA 1900 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90007.

"The book is designed to challenge our thinking about the inevitability of technology taking over and humans becoming servants of the machine." ~Rohit Talwar

The events are open to the public. To register for Monday, October 22, click HERE. To register for Tuesday, October 23, click HERE.

If you would like to arrange an interview with Rohit Talwar during his visit to LA please contact rohit(at)fastfuture.com

A Very Human Future acknowledges the powerful technological shifts reshaping our world and the commercial and competitive drive from companies and countries to be leaders in the race to dominate world changing fields such as AI, blockchain, and genomics. Indeed, the central argument of the book is that we cannot and probably should not try to hold back innovation. Instead the book argues that we need to overturn the death grip of decaying orthodoxies and assumptions. A Very Human Future is a call to experiment with a range of actions and initiatives to prepare ourselves for a radically different world and range of possible futures - because we simply don't know if AI and its disruptive cousins will eliminate more jobs than they create.

Monday, October 22, 2018 from 6-9 pm PT
Vortex Dome Los Angeles
1201 W 5th St F-185, Los Angeles, CA 90017
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm Registration and Networking
6:45 pm - 8:00 pm Presentation and discussion led by Rohit Talwar
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm Partner presentations from SparkiCreative and other guests
8:20 pm - 9:00 pm Book Signing & Networking

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from 6-9pm PT
Porsche Downtown LA

1900 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 9007
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm Registration and Networking
6:45 pm - 8:00 pm Presentation and Discussion led by Rohit Talwar
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm Host and partner presentations from Jay Huffschmidt, Julie Fogg, and other guests
8:20 pm - 9:00 pm Book Signing & Networking

As lead author, Rohit has been captivating audiences across the globe from California, DC, and New York to Singapore, St. Petersberg and Dubai, pulling no punches on the hurdles we must overcome. He has been inspiring attendees to go beyond expressing concern to starting practical trials of actions that individuals, businesses, governments, and society can undertake to begin preparing for fundamental and unpredictable shifts in everything we take for granted from employment to schooling.

A Very Human Future presents a hard hitting twelve point manifesto of how we can prepare ourselves for deep disruption and backs up these core themes with a range of ideas and actions through which we can start to experiment our way through the potential shocks to employment, civil society, and the economy.

"Each chapter looks at how new ideas enabled by emerging technologies are straining the old social fabric, and proposes radical future scenarios, strategies, and actions to safeguard humanity from harm and enhance opportunity for all. The scale of the new technologies requires a protective logic for moving forward, keeping humanity at the centre of the story so that we avoid dehumanizing ourselves and future generations." ~Alexandra Whittington

Read more about the book: A Very Human Future - Enriching Humanity in a Digitized World.

"Ultimately, A Very Human Future is about a fundamental shift in the scale of priority placed on people and the investment required to enable a more equitable and inclusive future for all." ~Rohit Talwar

Rohit Talwar is a global futurist, award-winning keynote speaker, author, and the CEO of Fast Future. His prime expertise lies in helping clients understand and shape the emerging future. He has a particular interest in how we can create a very human future by putting people at the center of the agenda.

Rohit is the co-author of Designing Your Future, lead editor and a contributing author for The Future of Business and Beyond Genuine Stupidity—Ensuring AI Serves Humanity, The Future Reinvented—Reimagining Life, Society, and Business, editor of Technology vs. Humanity, and co-editor and contributor for two forthcoming books: Unleashing Human Potential—The Future of AI in Business and 50:50—Scenarios for the Next 50 Years.

rohit(at)fastfuture.com
Twitter @fastfuture
http://www.facebook.com/RohitKTalwar
http://www.linkedin.com/in/talwar

SparkiCreative is co-hosting the event because the book covers topics critical to the underserved groups it supports. The skills for the workforce over the next 5-10 years will be very different from what people are using today and this is why SparkiCreative has partnered with Fast Future to co-host the US book launch.

ABOUT SPARKICREATIVE:
Julie Fogg is the founder and chairman of SparkiCreative, a 501(c)3 that supports women, minorities and veterans with economic independence through soft skills and work experience in technology. She is the founder of Active Port, an established Long Beach business specializing in business communications infrastructure technology.

TO RSVP:
Daniel Lee
(818) 395-6272
daniel(at)sparkicreative.org

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