2121 How do we get there?

Donna Benjamin@kattekrab

#BuzzConf2121

The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed.William Gibson

Donna Benjamin @kattekrab #BuzzConf2121

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

1996

The beginning is always today.

Mary Wollstonecraft

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.

Breathe.

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Elon Musk

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

1916

The future is a destination.

Utopia

Dystopia

Meh-topia

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” Mary Shelley

Elon Musk

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

How can you make the future happen?

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Be the change.

4 PowersConcetta Benn & Joan Benjamin

Resources

Relationships

Information

Decision making

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”

Karen Lamb

The Adjacent Possible

‘Chance favoursthe connected mind.”Steven Johnson

The collaborative now.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world

Anne Frank