Three Technologies That Will Change the Way We Live

Abstract

Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, RiAus Auditorium, 12:00pm, Saturday 8th October, 2011. This session is presented by RiAus and Bridge8 for the National Enabling Technologies Strategy Expert Forum and the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, and facilitated by Maryanne Demasi. There are emerging radical technologies that have the potential to change the way we live. In this session we’ll explore the contribution of enabling bio- and nano-technologies and their associated socio-cultural, health, safety and environmental impacts. We’ll ask what excites you about this? What scares you? And use foresight approaches to explore how they may change the way we live, and how we might all manage such rapid and transformative changes.