Hacking the Future: The Technology Spore

Evolver.net and Bioneers present:

Hacking the Future: The Technology Spore

Wed, Sept. 21

With advancements in technology doubling every 2 years, the complex tools and toys of 21st century homo sapiens harness nearly divine-like powers that carry the potential to either preserve or destroy life on the planet.

In the past few years, we have mapped the human genome, peered more than 14 billion years across the universe, built large-scale wind farms and solar panels, fashioned particle accelerators to study the smallest units of matter, and seen social networking systems spawn democratic revolutions in the Middle East. We’ve also witnessed unmanned drones bomb civilian villages in Pakistan, GMO foods contaminate US food supplies, nuclear reactors radiate the landscape of Fukushima, and offshore drilling poison 170 million gallons of Gulf water.

This month, in collaboration with Bioneers, 40+ Evolver communities will explore the benefits and pitfalls of modern technology. We will discuss how these developments shape and change our lives, how we can utilize these new tools safely and responsibly for the common good, and how to hold governments and corporations accountable for the technologies they develop. Spores may choose to cover topics ranging from hactkivism to nanotechnology, open source collaborations to bioengineering, alternative energy to vacuum field physics.

Check the list below to find your local Spore. If there is not yet a Spore in your community, email remi((at)evolver((dot))net to jumpstart your own.

AUSTRALIA: Sydney

CANADA: Calgary, Toronto , Vancouver

EUROPE: Budapest, Dundee, London, Vienna, Yorkshire

USA: Asheville, Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Bloomington, Boston, Boulder, Buffalo,Chicago, Columbia, MO, Columbus, Denver,, Iowa City, Little Rock, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Mount Pleasant, Murfreesburo, Naples, FL, New Orleans, New York City, Omaha, Philadelphia,Phoenix,
Pittsburgh, Portland, OR, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, SanFrancisco, San
Francisco East Bay,San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Seattle, Tacoma Tallahassee, Wilkes-Barre

Image: “Large Hadron Collider (CERN)” by Undertow851 of Flickr courtesy of Creative Commons Licensing.