FutureFest considers ideas for coming decades

By Matthew Reisz. Academics will join a host of well-known names for a festival this weekend encouraging each of us to cast our “mind forward 25 years to the 2030s”. Organised by innovation charity Nesta, FutureFest takes place in Shoreditch Town Hall, London, and will feature contributions from author George Monbiot, model and activist Lily Cole, comedian Robin Ince and a number of others.
A session on “Humanity 2.0” will see Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte professor of social epistemology at the University of Warwick, arguing that we ought to aim for “the abolition of medicine” as bioengineering creates the possibility of “a brave new ‘post-medical’ world”. More...