I was delighted to give a talk to staff and students at the Natural History Musuem in January, as part of their SciFi series. The talk focused on identifying urgent considerations in a climate of uncertainty around a number of major, global transformations.
I kicked off the talk by discussing the importance of utlising creative, digital technologies to put science where it can reach people, showing the game Ark: Survival Evolved as a great example of how dinosaur knowledge can be found. We quickly then turned to transhumanism as a critical re-framing of the climate emergency, so as to encompass a range of other global catastrophic risks. In doing so, we re-imagine the problem at hand and achieve a clearer sense of the totality of the risks we face and what’s needed to address these concerns.