⏩Fast Forward Aotearoa Digital Book Release: 5th March 2024
How exponential technology is defining the future of New Zealand... and what we can do about it
How can New Zealand keep up with the exponential technology change
that is shaping the world around us?
Register to attend the launch event of Ben Reid’s new book Fast Forward Aotearoa on 5th March at Tūranga, Ōtautahi Christchurch.
In 2024, you can feel the pace of technological development accelerating on a weekly basis - from artificial intelligence to virtual reality, robotics to nanotech, biological enhancement to space exploration - breakthroughs in emerging technologies are arriving into our lives and shaping the future we will live in. Ready or not.
In parallel, the planet is in the midst of an escalating, hypercomplex, interconnected “Polycrisis” of ecological overshoot, geopolitical instability and techno-capital power concentration.
In his new book ⏩Fast Forward Aotearoa launching on 5th March 2024, technology futurist Ben Reid examines the key technologies which will shape New Zealand’s future - and the giant international companies which control them - exposing in the process the national vulnerabilities stemming from an endemic lack of strategic thinking about technology in our public sector, businesses and education systems.
He argues that only by harnessing the newest, exponentially advancing technologies alongside other, likeminded nations can these challenges be solved openly and democratically to secure the future wellbeing and sovereignty of Aotearoa New Zealand’s tangata (people), ecosystems (nga puna ora) and land (whenua).
Register to attend the launch event of Ben Reid’s new book Fast Forward Aotearoa on 5th March at Tūranga, Ōtautahi Christchurch.
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