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Tuesday, July 17th, 2018
Fortune Brainstorm Tech
4:45 PM
THE NEW BATTLE FOR TRAVEL
The world’s most-visited travel website rakes in billions of dollars of revenue for its parent company (the former Priceline Group) but faces an existential threat in Airbnb—and a constant competitor in Expedia—as the travel market expands to include home-sharing.
Speaker:
Gillian Tans, CEO, Booking.com
Interviewer: Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2018
Fortune Brainstorm Tech
4:20 PM
WHAT IMPACT WILL AI HAVE ON HUMANITY?
Artificial intelligence is emerging as an enabler of both our greatest potential and our worst tendencies. How will humans ensure that one of technology’s greatest advancements is used responsibly? A dialogue about the precarious balance between human and machine.
Speaker:
Dr. Mike Capps, CEO, Diveplane Corp.
Additional speakers to be announced.
Moderator: Marissa Mayer, Co-founder, Lumi Labs
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune
"Man should not be measured by what he knows, but by what he loves." —St. Augustine
What do you love? What are you driven by? Where are you going?
Students in Meg Hodgin's AP Psychology class were recently divided into self-selected groups, based off of preferred learning styles, and tasked with creating a lesson plan on how a neuron fires using their selected learning approaches. The groups used musical, naturalistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, kinesthetic and existential teaching approaches for their presentations. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
Stephen Hawking’s dead. Martin’s having a breakdown. And Ellie? She’s feeding the fish.
When Martin hears that the world’s greatest scientific mind has died, he’s tipped over the edge. Who will figure out where we came from, and why we’re here?
Lucky for him, chance – or destiny – finds him in an aquarium with Ellie, a PhD student studying astrophysics. As the fish swim in circles, so too do these strangers, running through science, philosophy and theology as they search for the meaning of life – and whether there is such a thing at all.
Existential Fish & Dread is a philosophical comedy drama that deals with vast, unanswerable questions through the story of a very unlikely friendship. It explores the impact of genuine human connection, and makes those existential feelings just a little more bearable.
London Pub Theatres – “…clever, moving & well performed” ****
Theatre T – “A well structured walk-through of the human condition” ****
Within Her Words – “…perfectly timed, with a finesse in its script that heightens it from a simple 2 hander…” ****1/2
Gwenan Bain - Director
Martha Reed - Playwright
Steph Hartland - Producer
As 2007 closes and 2008 begins, one of the great questions that hangs in the cynical European air is how America will carry itself in the world next year. From the outside, the coming election seems less about "the economy, stupid" and more about America's role in the future of the planet. I think it's even deeper than that. I think this election is about how America sees itself. That's not really an existential question, or a spiritual one; mostly, it's a practical question. In this election year, Americans are looking for leadership that can turn spiritual yearnings into practical realities. Al Gore is the kind of leader these times require. Not as President — God and the Electoral College have given him a different job. As it happens, Al is at work repositioning his country from the inside out as a leader in clean energy; and along the way restoring faith in the U.S. as a moral powerhouse that can lead a great, global spiritual revival as the temperature rises.
That's right, a spiritual revival. Because this apostle of all things digital is the first to admit that technology alone will not reverse the damage done. He says it's going to take "a shift in consciousness." This isn't loopy Sixties stuff, or I wouldn't tune in. Al is tough-minded. He marshals history to make his argument, and countless examples of civilizations changing course and attitudes midstream roll off his tongue.
For Al, 2008 is a rendezvous with destiny and an appointment with the enemy. The foe he sees is our own indifference to the future and a lack of faith in our ability to do anything about it. He stresses that through crisis we can find opportunity. His language is pretty Biblical, but, then, doesn't the Bible say something about floods? He is like an Old Testament prophet amped up with PowerPoint and an army of the world's scientists at his disposal. The right response to the global-warming crisis, he explains, will be a mosaic of solutions that will kick off a whole new economic boom, one that is low-carbon and high-productivity, with truly sustainable development, and an atlas for planet management — using not New Age technology but old age wisdom generating sustainable solutions.
Is he Noah or are we King Canute? Are we prepared to make difficult choices on behalf of children not yet born? We cannot let the children of the developing world become canaries in the coal mine. If the tide should rise by 3 ft. (1 m), there could be over 100 million climate refugees in low-lying areas such as Bangladesh. If the tide rises 20 ft. (6 m), it's not just the summer homes of rock stars that will take sail; 400 million poor people could be uprooted and at sea. And one man's flood is another's drought: as coastal areas in Africa are drowned, travel inland and anything that isn't underwater will be even more parched than before. Think Sudan. People forget that extreme poverty as a result of desertification explains much of that country's travails.
Over the past year, "mild green" (me) and "khaki green" (him) have talked about how the fight against extreme poverty in the developing world and the struggle against climate change can reinforce each other. The poorest will be hit first and hardest by climate change. We can help them adapt, but they can help us, too. Vulnerable as the poor are, they can be powerful allies in stopping the cycle of environmental damage and extreme poverty. With the poor as partners we can slow overpopulation — as we must, because more population means more pollution. And we can help developing countries rev up their economies in a cleaner way than we did during the Industrial Revolution. The choices of the poor affect us, just as ours affect them; we are all part of one world, one moral universe, sharing one oxygen tank.
Desmond Tutu often uses the word ubuntu, meaning "I am because we are." It's my favorite epithet, an ode to interdependence. When I told Al that, he responded with Gandhi: Satyagraha, meaning "hold tight to the truth."
Personally, I'm trying to live up to both words, but it's hard. Like a lot of folks, I've got a lot on my plate without trying to make sure the dishwasher liquid is in a biodegradable container. (It is, but were it not for the eco-warrior with whom I share a bed, I would have fallen behind.) As Al leaves our house, I fall over myself to explain that my fancy car runs on ethanol, then laugh nervously, like when you meet a parish priest in the supermarket and it turns into confession.
Al isn't like that at all. He leads from the front, and if some sheep in the family stray, he's not stressed. He's not a zealot. Leaders often shout orders; generals bark; bellicose preachers, to save our souls, get gothic on our asses. But Al speaks in measured tones. He shows slides. He has an almost embarrassing faith in the power of facts to persuade both believer and skeptic. His enduring and overarching trait is, as it turns out, the pursuit of truth ... scientific truth, spiritual truth. That — and grace. Right now, he is an America the world needs to meet
The more I learn about myself, the more I fear myself. I’m told I should remain neutral. A Switzerland of the mind.
Secretary Antony J. Blinken participates in a high-level meeting on Addressing the Existential Threats Posed by Sea-Level Rise in New York City, New York, September 25, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)
Climate Change an "Existential Threat" for the Caribbean
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (IPS). When it comes to climate change, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves doesn’t mince words: he will tell you that it is a matter of life and death for Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
www.ipsnews.net/2014/09/climate-change-an-existential-thr...
A story is told by the Existential philosopher Kierkegaard of the absent-minded man so abstracted from his own life that he hardly knows he exists until, one fine morning, he wakes up to find himself dead..... (note to self: Live everyday with purpose.)
Stephen Hawking’s dead. Martin’s having a breakdown. And Ellie? She’s feeding the fish.
When Martin hears that the world’s greatest scientific mind has died, he’s tipped over the edge. Who will figure out where we came from, and why we’re here?
Lucky for him, chance – or destiny – finds him in an aquarium with Ellie, a PhD student studying astrophysics. As the fish swim in circles, so too do these strangers, running through science, philosophy and theology as they search for the meaning of life – and whether there is such a thing at all.
Existential Fish & Dread is a philosophical comedy drama that deals with vast, unanswerable questions through the story of a very unlikely friendship. It explores the impact of genuine human connection, and makes those existential feelings just a little more bearable.
London Pub Theatres – “…clever, moving & well performed” ****
Theatre T – “A well structured walk-through of the human condition” ****
Within Her Words – “…perfectly timed, with a finesse in its script that heightens it from a simple 2 hander…” ****1/2
Gwenan Bain - Director
Martha Reed - Playwright
Steph Hartland - Producer
Au Café de Flore... Jean-Paul Sartre ! inquiet comme d'habitude... ! L'interdiction de fumer n'était pas de rigueur !
As the caption rightly says, lots of questions in my life right now. But as Rainer Maria Rilke put it,
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
Try to love the questions themselves,
At present you need to live the question,
Perhaps you will gradually without even noticing it,
find yourself experiencing the answer"
Progetto Arcevia 2.0/12
In 1972, Italo Bartoletti initiated Progetto Arcevia, a vision of an existential community which simultaneously enriched the local community of Palazzo d’Arcevia (Italy) while at the same time providing a site for creatives – artists, philosophers, architects – to come together and collaborate.
40 years later, Bartoletti’s vision has been embraced by a group of young London-based designers, Unit +. In September 2012, five members of Unit + journeyed to Riserva Privata San Settimio, the very site that Bartoletti first cultivated for Progetto Arcevia, and which is still owned by his family today. Using experiential and live mapping techniques across a range of different media (conceptual documentaries, sketches, models and a fairy tale inspired comic book), Unit + explored, documented and analysed their impressions of the site.
Through their dynamic engagement with all aspects of the Riserva, they experimented with colour-coded navigation systems, a proposal for a ‘floating’ meditation room and a towering sundial. Through the support and enthusiasm of Bartoletti’s family and the Riserva, Unit + will return in Spring 2013 to initiate these projects.
Crucial to Progetto Arcevia 2.0/12 is the fact that the fundamental ideals remain the same; Unit + are committed to operating as “a thought factory and creativity lab”, a team that values collaboration and cooperation. Their work at the Riserva in 2013 represents not only a continuation of one man’s vision, but the revitalisation of concepts that are intrinsic to collaborative design.
slightly existential message, Berwyn, IL.
Slightly blurry shot - there is an art to taking photographs in the passenger seat of a car, and I haven't yet mastered it