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First videos posted, more details on Ignite DC 5 - The Future

Posted July 12, 2010

Submit your idea for The Future now! -- Due Aug 15th!

Check out the first of our Ignite DC 4 videos, and subscribe to all the videos on iTunes (we release one per week).

We now have details on the next Ignite! Ignite DC 5 - The Future will focus on your 5-minute visions of the future.

No single person is likely to have an accurate, comprehensive vision of the future, but we think Ignite is the perfect format for sharing bite-sized predictions. It is our hope that those predictions, good and bad, will seed their own unique permutations in our minds, inspiring us to envision the future, and maybe even play a bigger role in creating it.

We're looking for talks which extrapolate or hypothesize a specific scientific advancement, policy direction, social norm, natural event, or new technology. We would prefer talks rooted in reality, which take creative license for the passage of time or unforeseen discoveries. Think of these like vignettes, tableaus, or flash futures. They can be delivered any way you like, but must make use of our 15-second-per-slide format.

At the end of this event, we'll be asking you for input on how these atomic visions of the future might be combined, and we'll share them as a map after the event.

Submit your idea for The Future now!

Comments (14)

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Trey Pennington July 28, 2010

There is a world where leaders of companies ask first, ask often, and debate amongst themselves, "How can we use what we've got to help other people get what they want?"

Passionate creative energy pours into the discussion.

This bigger, become, more sustainably profitable question dominates the discussion because everyone has adopted the heart and soul of a storyteller.

As storytellers, they're determined to help others create their own stories in their own way while staying out of the way.

That's what business means then. It's an age of opportunity where the dragon of "maximizing shareholder wealth" has been slain and no one asks, "Hey, how much money we gonna make on this?"

How Storytelling will Make Better Futures, Even for Businesses

Jared July 29, 2010

Thanks, Trey! Would you mind submitting your idea here: http://ignite-dc.com/proposals/new

Jeremy Caverly July 29, 2010

I'd like to present either the notion of building computer labs out of shipping containers with Low-Power components that allow an entire lab to run on a couple hundred watts ..... OR .... the future of "schools" where student merely meet at a "co-working" space so they can interact with peers face-to-face while learning from their multi-media tablets that host open-source course work, text-books and allow them to interact with their personal "Learning Mentor" who is likely a mere grad student or college professor located somewhere remotely.

Ananda Leeke August 3, 2010

When is the deadline? I don't see any deadline dates ont he site.

Jared Goralnick August 11, 2010

The deadline is Aug 15th!

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