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15. Bridging the Gap Between Extreme Climate Events and Legal Responsibility with Joyce Kimutai Climate Scientist
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Joyce Kimutai is a #climate #scientist based in Kenya. She investigates the connection between humans and extreme weather caused by climate change. Her work bridges the gap between #legalpractice and science, showing the causation between human activities and harm and damage from climate change. #climatechangeimpacts.She works with the IPPC, the UN…
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14. Plastic – a life hazard, needs to be better managed through its life cycle with Nirere Sadrach
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Nirere Sadrach is founder and organizer of “End #plastic Now”. He started it in 2020 in Uganda. (Read more including transcript: https://imaginize.world/nirere-ending-plastics/) End Plastic Now is a youth movement whose goal is to end single-use plastic by corporations. Nirere is involved in the very original Kollekt Village which is a model for ho…
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13. Regeneration of our economy and lives by changing the game with Alex Prate
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Alex Prate, venture builder and entrepreneur, discusses how #DAOs can help people revolutionize #energymanagement, share #renewable energy, create a more sustainable and #equitablefuture through #regeneration. He also talks about SEEDS a currency that rewards regenerative activities. The use of #blockchaintechnology ensures transparency. He talks a…
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12. Teaching Tomorrow's Climate Activists with Vanessa Nakate
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Climate activist from Uganda, Vanessa campaigns internationally to highlight the impacts of climate change already playing out in Africa. Vanessa has appeared at high-level events including the 2019 UN Climate summit in Madrid, and the 2020 World Economic Forum. In 2020, she was named one of the BBC’s 100 Women of the year, as well as one of the 10…
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Highlights > 10 minutes with Robin Vincent-Smith: Humanity has no Borders for MSF
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See transcript here: https://imaginize.world/robin-vincent-smith-podcast/ Robin is particularly working on how MSF is adapting its operations to the reality of climate change and reducing its environmental footprint. His focus is how people work together. We talk about a wide range of issues around and beyond the humanitarian world. His perspective…
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Highlights > 10 minutes w/ Sugata Mitra Preparing Children for Their Future, Not Our Past
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See transcript here: https://imaginize.world/sugata-mitra-podcast/ Sugata Mitra is a physicist, educational pioneer He was the creator of the famous “Hole in the Wall” experiment which was the inspiration for the School in the Cloud and for Self-organized Learning Environments, or SOLE which led the one million dollar TED prize in 2013, given to fo…
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Highlights > 10 minutes with Art Kleiner and the AI Dilemma
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See transcript here: https://imaginize.world/art-kleiner-transcript/ The subject of this podcast episode is his new book The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology, co-authored with Juliette Powell. We all need to get a grasp on AI, what it means for us, the benefits and potential harms. The AI Dilemma offers principles to help us fram…
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11. Building a Culture of Peace with Mandar Apte
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Mandar describes himself as "Thought Leader, Social Innovator, Meditation Teacher and Storyteller". He adds: "I collaborate with changemakers, leaders and organizations to reimagine their purpose & impact." (Read more including transcript: https://imaginize.world/mandar-apte-building-culture-peace/) In 2017, Mandar produced and directed the film Fr…
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Highlights > 10 minutes on AFTER WORLD with Debbie Urbanski
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See https://imaginize.world/debbie-urbanski-podcast/ for transcript. We talked about her first novel, After World, and Debbie explained her unusual idea of a Great Transition and a New Awakening. She is comfortable talking about the conflicting priorities we face with climate crisis, and the choice between preserving human life and/or earth. AI is …
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10. David Weinberger and Unanticipation
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From the Cluetrain Manifesto in 2001, to Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility in 2019, Weinberger's books have helped shape many people’s ideas about technology and how it influences us. He helps us understand the effect of machine learning on business strategy and our lives in general. IMAGINI…
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Highlights > 10 minutes on Immersive technology with Mark Gröb of UPS
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See https://imaginize.world/mark-grob-podcast/ for transcript. Mark is head of the Immersive Tech Center for UPS. He works with subject matter experts to develop innovations that solve real business problems. Their goal is to make immersive technology a normal business practice for UPS and partner companies. I talked with Mark over a year ago when …
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Highlights>10 minutes with Chen Qiufan on AI, humans and what scifi really is.
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Chen asks if AI will reunite us humans as a species. IMAGINIZE.WORLD takes you beyond our familiar boundaries. You'll discover how forward thinkers, scifi visionaries and pioneering organizations see the future. You'll learn to imagine your future and develop ideas to move in that direction. Also see A Global Vision for 2043 from 200 people around …
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9. DAO Age and Work Reimagined with Joachim Stroh
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Joachim Stroh discusses decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and their potential to fundamentally change the way organizations function. More here: https://imaginize.world/dao-age-work-reimagined-with-joachim-stroh/ He explains that DAOs are different from traditional organizations and operate on the principles of decentralization and trus…
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8. Wikimedia, essential infrastructure for open knowledge with Florence Devouard
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Florence Devouard, a long-time member of the Wikimedia Foundation, discusses various aspects of the organization and its future. She highlights the Wikimedia ecosystem, which consists of the Wikimedia Foundation and numerous entities around the world. Devouard emphasizes the importance of expanding the presence of Wikipedia in Africa. She addresses…
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7. Will technology have our back? with Thomas Vander Wal
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Thomas Vander Wal, well-know technology expert, is the creator of the term “folksonomy” where people define their personal categories for words (versus organizational, official taxonomy). Along the same lines he also defined the concept of the “personal info cloud”, the information you collect, organize, save and keep close to you. Thomas has done …
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6. Robin Vincent-Smith and Humanity Has No Borders
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Robin Vincent-Smith has been with Médecins sans Frontières, or in English, Doctors Without Borders. for over 20 years. The first years were working in the field in Ethiopia, Congo, Chad, South Africa, Liberia, and other countries. Now, he's based in the Operational Centre in Brussels, and officially 'Programme, Change & Knowledge Manager', but he d…
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Sugata Mitra, physicist and educational pioneer, is known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment that led to the School in the Cloud and SOLE (self-organized learning environments). Winner of the TED one million dollar prize in 2013, and laureate of the 2022 Brock Prize in Education Innovation, he is now moving on to work in new but related areas. W…
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In this conversation, Art Kleiner discusses the four perspectives that decision-makers consider when making decisions about AI: the engineer's perspective, the business perspective, the government perspective, and the social justice perspective. He also talks about the importance of explainability in AI and the need for different explanations for d…
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3. "After World" with Debbie Urbanski: Humans and AI in Great Transition
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Debbie Urbanski, author of the book "After World," discusses the themes and ideas behind her speculative fiction novel in an interview with Jane McConnell. The book explores the concept of the end of humanity as both an end and a beginning, depending on one's perspective and where the story starts and ends. Urbanski delves into topics such as AI, c…
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2. Immersive Technology with Mark Gröb of UPS
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Mark Gröb, a futurist and pioneer of virtual reality, discusses the use of immersive technology, such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), at UPS. He explains that immersive tech provides a human interface to digital data and can be used to enhance learning, training, and safety in various industries. For example, UPS uses VR and mix…
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1. Shaping our Reality with Chen Qiufan
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Chen Qiufan, who also goes by Stanley Chen, is a world-renown science fiction author, humanist and futurist. In this conversation, he discusses his views on science fiction and how he sees himself as a storyteller rather than just a science fiction writer. He believes that science fiction should go beyond the boundaries of traditional scifi and exp…
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