India Future Society (IFS)and Future Day

March 1st, 2014

By, Siddartha S VermaCo-Founder and Secretary (IFS)

B.Tech (CUSAT, India), M.Sc. (UWA, Perth), IBM India Pvt. Ltd. (Bangalore)

List of Team members, Advisory board members and Authors-

Founder and PresidentAvinash Singh

Co-Founder and SecretarySiddartha S Verma

Treasurer Vishal Singh

Member

Dr. Raghuraj Singh Vivek MishraGaurav PathakDr. Prabhat Verma

Team members

Thomas DambergerVivek AnandManoj Surya

Sayane ShomeShahnawaz AlamZoamma Hassan

Kush KumarSangeeta Patra

Raghavan Nambier

Advisory Team members

Dr. Aubrey de GreyElena Milova

Dr. Ilia StamblerDr. James Hughes

Dr. Kim SolezDr. Natasha Vita-More

Zoltan Istvan

Authors

Dr. Miriam J.S.LeisJameson N. Rohrer

B.J.MurphyClyde DeSouza

Dirk BruereFranco Cortese

Christine GasparHarish Shah

Chris T. Armstrong

Our website and social media-

IFS webpage- www.indiafuturesociety.orgFacebook page- https://www.facebook.com/IndiaFutureSociety/Twitter- https://twitter.com/india_fs/

We are-

• Chapter of Humanity +• Member of International Longevity Alliance (ILA)

Outline of this talk-

• Why India Future Society?

• Why future? Not past? Or present?

• What future holds? Future of?

• Past events

• Future Day

Why India Future Society?

• To spread awareness about future and emerging technologies for masses and use of technology to expand human capacities.

An image showing Technology Review publishing about emerging technologies

• We focus on the practical aspects and benefit which can be obtained by studying and working on this.

•We are a team of thinkers and highly qualified professional- scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and authors, who work to define humanities next steps.

Topics and technologies we write and think about-

Mind Uploading

Simulated/ Virtual reality Image showing different technologies for mind uploading

Image showing different virtual environments and technologies

Genetics

Nanotechnology

A gene (Double Helix Model)

Carbon and Graphene nanotechnology to revolutionize things

Radical Life Extension

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Researchers around the world are working in this field and studying The implications of this work. Image shows the banner of a conference organized in this area.

Picture of Ben Goertzel, an eminent AGI researcher.

Longevity activitists around the World are working towards achieving this. One prominent figure in this field Aubrey de Grey

Future and Transhumanism Society exists all around the world, like-

Stanford Transhumanist Association, Harvard College Future Society, Cornell Transhumanist Society, Los Angeles Transhumanists and many more around the world in countries like Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Latin America, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden and UK.

Why Future? Not Past? Or Present?

• All the effort in research is driving us towards a better future• We have more resources now to work towards a brighter world• We have access to better and sophisticated technologies• World is more connected, thanks to social media and digital communication revolution.• We are at a critical point of time in Human evolution to have these priviledges, moving towards a Technological Singularity (as Ray Kurzweil predicts)• Tools which were accessible to few, are now access to wider range of population• Future is what is most important• Companies like Microsoft, General Electrics, Honeywell, IBM, Google, Facebook are all working on cutting edge research and innovation which will bring miracles for the coming generation• We have tools now to commercialize this emerging research and innovation market. • More technology which was only to be seen in the research labs, are in hands of real time users around the world.

These factors makes us to work for the future. India Future Society (IFS) is a small contribution towards the same.

What future holds of? Future of?

Future holds of all the different possibilities arising from the emerging technology market and factors listed in the earlier slide.

Future of

Communication

AI

Automobile

Space technology

DefenceSocial media

3 D environments and Gaming

Human Wearable products

And much more…

IFS NGO Certificate

(Certified bySociety of Registrars,Bangalore, Govt. of India)

Past events conducted by India Future Society (IFS)

A) Longevity Day, 1st and 5th October, 2013

Details of venue- Little Italy, Bangalore, India and HBTI, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh

Time- 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

No of audiences- 10 and 15

Pictures of the event-

Group discussion, Bangalore

Group photo, Bangalore

Group photo, Kanpur

After lecture, Kanpur

B.) Future Day, March 1st and 2nd, Ranchi and Kanpur, India

Group photo after the event.

All the audience were very curious about the subject and had lots of questions. The principal of my High School helped to get the news published in a local newspaper.

Venue picture during the event.

The venue was well arranged for all the audience for comfortable seating and total 40 – 50 people showed up.

Future Day

• It is being organized in many countries this year- over 20 cities around the world like- Utah, Springfield, San Francisco, Columbia, Paris, Seattle and other places.

• It is a day to focus and celebrate the efforts of people around the world who are working in their domains for a better future.

• Like Childrens Day (in India), Republic Day, Independence Day and many other national holidays, if Future Day is celebrated as a Global holiday, it will be more effective.

• First Future Day was hosted in march, 2012 and the idea was given by AI researcher Ben Goertzel and Humanity + organization is putting effort to make this happen. IFS is contributing for the same.

• Other organization which endorse Future Day are- Foresight Education and Research Network (FERN), Second Tree, Kororoit Institute, Open Cog, Amplify and others.

• Previous Future Day events have been held in Australia (Melbourne, Sydney), Asia (Hong Kong), USA (Edmonton, Berkele, Hawaii & Houston, Utah, LA, Palo Alto, Washington), Brazil, Belgium (Brussels), France (Paris), Poland (Wroclaw), Virtual Reality (Second Life), and many more places all over the globe!

Thanks.