Moving Toward

Conscious-Technology Cities of the Future

Jerome C. Glenn, CEOThe Millennium Project

Human Augmentation: AI-Brain Interface as a “Neural Lace” (term coined by Elon Musk)

The CityArtificial Intelligence

Cortex

Limbic Syste

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"neural lace," a mesh of electronics [and photonics] that will allow AI and the brain to work together.

This could help human brains keep up with future enhancements in AI.

https://youtu.be/ZrGPuUQsDjo

Now imagine a city (not just an individual) with neural lace for the human population.

Humans becoming cyborgs

20202025

20302050

Conscious-Technology

Built environment becoming intelligent

When the distinction between these two mega trends becomes blurred, we will have reached the

Post-Information Age

Simplification/Generalization of Historyand an Alternative Future

Age /Element Product Power Wealth Place War Time

Agricultural Extraction

Food/Res Religion Land Earth/Res Location Cyclical

Industrial Machine Nation-State

Capital Factory Resources Linear

Information Info/serv Corporation

Access Office Perception Flexible

Conscious-Technology

Linkage Individual Being Motion Identity Invented

IoT AI Contact Lens – always in Virtual Reality connected to the word

Hands-free, phone free, laptop free, AI-human symbiosis

Conscious-Technology Citiesof the Future

Human

Minds

CitiesTechThe evolution of each, influences the other, and the Synergies create the C-T Cities of the future.

AI, IoT, Nano Sensors will make a continuum of our brains and the city

Artificial Intelligence1. Artificial Narrow Intelligence2. Artificial General Intelligence3. Artificial Super Intelligence

Next Technologies (NT) = all together:

Artificial IntelligenceRoboticsSynthetic Biology & GenomicsComputational ScienceCloud & Big Data AnalyticsArtificial & Augmented RealityNanotechnologyIoT, Tele-Everything & Tele-Everybody, the Semantic Web Quantum computing

Tele-Presence, Holographic Communications Intelligence augmentationCollective Intelligence 3D/4D Printing of Materials and Biology Drones, Driverless Cars (and other autonomous vehicles) Conscious-TechnologySynergies Among These

Old Way of Seeing Future Technologies

Artificial Intelligence Robotic

manufacturing

Computational Science3-D4-D Priting

Nanotechnology Quantum computing

Synthetic Biology

Drones

Artificial General Intelligence

Tele-Everything & Tele-Everybodythe Semantic Web

Future Way of Seeing Future Technologies - Integration/Synergies

Future Technology SynergiesRobotic manufacturing

Drones

Quantum computing

Robotic manufacturing

3D， 4D Printing

Augmented RealityTele-Presence, Holographics

Nanotechnology Artificial General Intelligence

Tele-EverythingTele-Everybodythe Semantic Web

Increasing individual and collective intelligence

Synthetic Biology

Nanotechnology

Future Technology Synergies

Artificial Intelligence

Robotic manufacturing

Quantum computing

Drones

Future Technology

Robotic manufacturing

3D， 4D Printing

Augmented Reality,Tele-Presence, Holographics

Inevitability of New Economics

• Concentration of wealth is increasing• Income gaps are widening• Employmentless economic growth seems the new norm• Return on Investment in capital and technology is usually

better than labor• Future technologies can replace much of human labor• Long-term structural unemployment is a “business as

usual” surprise free forecast• What can we do about this?

The Millennium Project Study: Future Work/Tech 2050

Created three Work/Tech 2050 Global Scenarios

• It’s Complicated - A Mixed Bag• Political/Economic Turmoil – Future Despair • If Humans Were Free – The Self-Actualizing Economy

Create workshops to for long-terms strategies to address these issues.Background at: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/AI-Work.html

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates 1991

By 2030 millions of people could become augmented geniuses, and what could they create?

How to keep track and anticipate such change?

Create Urban Collective Intelligence Systems

EC called it the European Knowledge Space

EC Report: The Knowledge Future: Intelligent policy choices for Europe 2050

Policy RecommendationsPrinciple 1: An open knowledge system in Europe

C: Create a European Knowledge Space …. An on-line framework open to all citizens for research, analysis, debate and sharing, this will enable policy-makers, business leaders, scientists, technologists and the general public to access all knowledge available, to exchange information and to deliberate options for addressing societal challenges. An integrated framework of policies, incentives and ICT tools to permit greater sharing, debate and participation in the results and challenges of fast-changing science and technology to address societal challenges, it can form a core objective of Framework Programmes of the future.

An Urban Knowledge Space to improve the collective intelligence of a City

For further informationJerome C. Glenn

+1-202-686-5179 phone/faxJerome.Glenn@Millennium-Project.org

www.StateoftheFuture.org

Global Futures Intelligence System: http://millennium-project.org/millennium/GFIS.html

2015-16 State of the Future: http://millennium-project.org/millennium/201516SOF.html

Futures Research Methodology 3.0: http://millennium-project.org/millennium/FRM-V3.html