Hosted by Mark Anderson, founder and publisher of the Strategic News Service™, the Future in Review® (FiRe) conference exposes world experts and participants to new ideas in a manner that produces an accurate portrait of the future in technology, including the global economy, cloud computing, biology and medical diagnostics, policy, netbooks, space travel, sustainability, and other fields that contribute to technology outcomes. (Strategic News Service and the SNS weekly global report have been accurately predicting the technology industry’s future since 1995.)This intimate conference is designed to be intellectually challenging, financially rewarding, and fun.

Selected Themes Inside FiRe 2015: Designing the first pattern-based compute system • Engineering patterns in biology • Stem cells for brain cures • Neuromorphic chips • Contextual robotics • Autonomous drones • The AI debate • Graphene production and 3D graphene printing • A new biology-based programming language • Carbon chips • Flow batteries for the grid • and more.

Copic marker on paper 6.75" x 9.75" 11.18.2025. www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Autonomous-Reconnaissance-...

Acrylic marker on paper 13.85" x 9.88" June 5, 2024. www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Autonomous-Surface-Probe-H...

Acryl auf Leinwand. 21" x 18" 2016 - 2019 www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Immer-neue-Sterne-immer-n...

Acrylic on canvas 23.75" x 28.75" March 18, 2024 www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Erikoisrajaj-k-rit-Savisi...

. Acrylic on canvas 21" x 18" October 24, 2024. www.saatchiart.com/en-jp/art/Painting-Die-Sonne-J-ger-X-P...

Acrylic on canvas 23.75" x 28.75" November 29, 2021. www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Psychic-Research-Facility...

Acrylic on canvas 21" x 18" September 25, 2024. www.saatchiart.com/en-jp/art/Painting-Die-Sonne-J-ger-IX-...

Acrylic marker on paper 13.85" x 9.88" June 5, 2024. www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Autonomous-Surface-Probe-H...

Acryl auf Leinwand 23.75" x 28.75" 12.17.2024 www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Die-Sonne-J-ger-X-m1-Bo-t...

Acrylic on canvas 21" x 18" August 23, 2022. www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Launch-Facility-at-Knight...

Acrylic on canvas 21" x 18" February 25, 2022. www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Autonomous-Reconnaissance...

Up-and-coming UC Davis fashion designer Valerie Mores and her classmates show off some of her latest work, inspired by the costume designs from Marvel's Asgardian tale of Thor.

. Acrylic marker and ink on paper 16.75" x 11.75" May 20, 2022. www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Vaux-sur-Aure-Frankreich/2...

Acrylic marker on paper 13.85" x 9.88" June 5, 2024. www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Autonomous-Surface-Probe-H...

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

9:40-11:05 a.m. – Keynote Speaker: The Future of

Work Keynote: What AI Will Mean for the Future of

Human Expertise

DR. NEIL THOMPSON

Director of the FutureTech research project at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab

Principal Investigator at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy

Joseph G. Astman Presidential Academic Symposium Scholar*

Dr. Neil Thompson is the Director of the FutureTech research group, and Principal Research Scientist

at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), and at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital

Economy (IDE) within the Sloan School of Management.

Guided by Dr. Thompson’s leadership, the FutureTech group researches the cutting edge and most

important trends driving progress in computing and AI, how these trends underpin scientific progress

and economic prosperity, and produces rigorous insights that broaden humanity’s knowledge, and

inform policy and industry decisions.

Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater

Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Photo: Matteo Bracco

Acrylic marker on paper 13.85" x 9.88" June 5, 2024. www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Autonomous-Surface-Probe-H...

Acryl auf Leinwand. 21" x 18" 2016 - 2019 www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Immer-neue-Sterne-immer-n...

Acrylic on canvas 21" x 18" September 25, 2024. www.saatchiart.com/en-jp/art/Painting-Die-Sonne-J-ger-IX-...

Acrylic on canvas 23.75" x 28.75" March 18, 2024 www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Erikoisrajaj-k-rit-Savisi...

Acrylic on canvas 16" x 12.75" April 1, 2022 www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Radar-Installation-Gamont...

. Acrylic marker and ink on paper 16.75" x 11.75" May 20, 2022. www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Vaux-sur-Aure-Frankreich/2...

Acrylic marker on paper 16.50" x 11.75" December 21, 2020. www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Enceladus-Surface-Probe-II...

. Acrylic on canvas 21" x 18" October 24, 2024. www.saatchiart.com/en-jp/art/Painting-Die-Sonne-J-ger-X-P...

Acryl auf Leinwand. 21" x 18" 2016 - 2019 www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Immer-neue-Sterne-immer-n...