And, via a presentation I gave last week, a sense of the book's visual content:
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10.00-10.15 Why Human Futures? Mike Stubbs
10.15-11.45 Envisioning the Future,
Chair: Steve Fuller
10.15-10.40 An Ethics of the Unknown, Russell Blackford AUS 10.40-11.05 Notes Towards the History of the Present, Norman M Klein USA 11.05-11.45 Questions & Answers, Discussion
11.45-12.15 Tea and Coffee
12.15-13.45 Designs on the Future,
Chair: Andy Miah
1215-12.45 Design for Debate, Fiona Raby UK 12.45-13.00 Enhanced Humans as Super-Organisms, Michael Burton UK 13.00-13.15 Natural Kingdoms and the Post-Biological World, Revital Cohen UK 13.15-13.45 Questions & Answers
13.45-14.45 Lunch & ISEA 2009 Meeting
14.45-15.45 Life after death in the 21st century,
Chair: Ernest Edmonds UK
14.45-15.05 Mission Eternity, etoy.CORPORATION SWITZ 15.05-15.45 Discussants: Paul Brown, Linda Candy UK
15.45-16.45 Unsustainable Futures? FACT in 2009 ,
Chair: Nicola Triscott
15.45-15.55 Overiew & Summary, Nicola Triscott UK
Rapporteurs: 15.55-16.05 Steve Fuller 16.05-16.15 Ernest Edmonds 16.15-16.25 Nigel Cameron 16.25-16.45 Laura Sillars
17.15-18.30 Book Launch Reception, Speeches & Signings
Mike Stubbs - Human Futures: The Programme
Andy Miah - Human Futures: The Book
Related Events Also taking place in Liverpool that day is the Long Night of the Biennial, an evening of cultural activities running from 8pm-12am. The following day sees the start of the BBC’s Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival, which is also at FACT. If you’ve not had a chance to get to Liverpool during its year as European Capital of Culture, this could be your time.