Selected PowerPoint presentations by ASF president John Smart
(email). More
may be found at his personal
site.
Jul 2008 | Mindshare LA: Five
Questions (41 slides, 3 MB)
Conjectures on the universe, our relation to the universe,
and the importance of foresight/futures work. For a general audience.
Jul 2008 | Army Science Board: Adapting
to the Future (89 slides, 7 MB)
Nonclassified 1.5 hr brief on trends and scenarios in accelerating
change. For advisors to senior Army staff.
Sep 2007 | POST Command College: Adapting
to the Future (113 slides, 10MB)
Understanding and guiding accelerating change. Daylong workshop
for law enforcement leadership.
Jul 2007 | Korean Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology
(KAIST): The
Limits of BIology, the Promise of Technology (107 slides,
9MB).
Arguments why nanotech, mechtech and infotech will have far broader
social impacts than biotech in coming years.
Apr 2007 | National Air and Space Intelligence Center:
Adapting
to the Future (249 slides, 19MB)
Daylong workshop for NASIC staff on guiding accelerating change
for strategic advantage.
May 2006 | Stanford Singularity Summit: Searching
for the Big Picture (90 slides, 8MB)
A three part framework for investigating accelerating change from
a universal perspective.
Jan 2006 | Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14: Accelerating
Change Toolkit (147 slides, 6MB)
Assumptions, processes, studies, skillsets, trends, and scenarios
in accelerating change. For physician-innovators.
Nov 2005 | Tamkang University: How
to be a Strategic Futurist (169 slides, 6MB)
An integral approach to predicting, managing, and creating our
accelerating future. For futurists.
Oct 2005 | Army War College: How
to be a Strategic Futurist (160 slides, 6MB)
An integral approach to predicting, managing, and creating our
accelerating future. For military leaders.
Jul 2005 | World Future Society: How
to be a Tech Futurist (132 slides, 7MB)
Some considerations for predicting, managing, and creating in
a world of accelerating change.
Jun 2005 | University of Advancing Technology: How
to be a Tech Futurist (111 slides, 4MB)
Some considerations for predicting, managing, and creating in
a world of accelerating change.
Apr 2005 | Las Vegas Future Salon: Catalyzing
the Symbiotic Age (114 slides, 6MB)
Discovering, managing, and creating the next great emergences
in human-machine symbiosis.
Apr
2005 | U of Houston, Studies of the Future M.S.: Online
Community Design (53 slides, 3MB)
A survey of current tools, tips, and techniques for effective
online community design and management.
Mar
2005 | FBI Futures Working Group: Security
and Policing in 2015 (114 slides, 2MB)
Considerations for FBI leadership and innovation in homeland security
and policing in the coming decade.
Nov 2004 | Accelerating Change Conference: The
Symbiotic Age (35 slides. 3MB)
Accelerating change, the CUI, avatars, personality capture, and
trends in human-machine symbiosis.
Oct 2004 | Space Frontier Conference: Exploring
Micro and Macro Frontiers (61 slides. 3MB)
Advancing research in the amazing world of inner space leads us
to greater achievements in outer space.
Oct 2004 | World Technology Summit: Intro
to Accelerating Change (34 slides. 2MB)
A brief overview of accelerating change for a panel convened by
the World Technology Network.
Aug 2004 | Army War College: Adapting
to the Future (154 slides. 8MB)
Accelerating change, evolutionary development, world security
policy and the strategy of "measurable exponential value."
Apr 2004 | L.A. Future Salon: Singularity
Economics (96 slides. 7MB)
Thoughts on the history of acceleration, evolutionary development,
hierarchical emergence, autonomy and economics.
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