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Technology Empowers the Poorest

Wednesday, May 21st, 02008

Iqbal Quadir
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Quadir is the now-legendary founder of GrameenPhone, which transformed his home country of Bangladesh in the 1990s and led the way for the cellphone revolution throughout the developing world. Currently Quadir heads the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT and is building Emergence BioEnergy Inc., a project to develop local electricity for the rural poor, using such devices as a fuel cell that runs on anaerobic bacteria. Linking new technology with the boundless resourcefulness of the poor drives innovation in surprising directions at surprising speed.

Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm lasting ~1.5 hours
Located at Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center

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Upcoming Seminars

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    • May 21 (WEDNESDAY) - Iqbal Quadir, "Technology Empowers the Poorest"
    • June 27 (Friday) - Paul Ehrlich, "The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment"
    • Jul. 23 (WEDNESDAY) - Edward Burtynsky, "The 10,000-year Gallery"
    • Aug. 8th (Friday) - Daniel Suarez (aka author Leinad Zeraus), "Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality"
    • Sep. 12th (Friday) - Peter Diamandis, "Long-term X-Prizes"
    • Oct. 3rd (Friday) Huey Johnson "Green Long-term Planning"
    • Nov. 17th (Monday) Drew Endy and Jim Thomas "Synthetic Biology Debate"
    • Dec. 19 (Friday) - Rick Prelinger, "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco"

Previous Seminars

02008

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson & Peter Schwartz

Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress
Monday, April 28th, 02008

Craig Venter

Craig Venter

Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention
Monday, February 25th, 02008

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought
Monday, February 4, 02008

Paul Saffo

Paul Saffo

Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting
Friday, January 11, 02008

02007

Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais

Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais

At the Edge of Art
Friday, December 14, 02007

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Enduring Principles for Changing Times
Friday, November 9, 02007

Juan Enriquez

Juan Enriquez

Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge
Friday, October 12, 02007

Gwyneth Cravens

Gwyneth Cravens with Rip Anderson

Power to Save the World
Friday, September 14, 02007

Alex Wright

Alex Wright

Glut: Mastering Information Though the Ages
Friday, August 17, 02007

Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama

"The End of History" Revisited
Thursday, June 28, 02007

Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken

The New Great Transformation
Friday, June 8, 02007

Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson

The Long Zoom
Friday, May 11, 02007

Frans Lanting

Frans Lanting

Life's Journey Through Time
Friday, April 27th, 02007

Brian Fagan

Brian Fagan

We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change
Friday, March 9, 02007

Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge

What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?
Thursday, February 15, 02007

Philip Tetlock

Philip Tetlock

Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs
Friday, January 26, 02007

02006

Philip Rosedale

Philip Rosedale

'Second Life:' What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING?
Friday, November 30, 02006

Katherine Fulton

Katherine Fulton

(with Richard Rockefeller and Larry Brilliant)

The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy
Friday, November 3, 02006

John Baez

John Baez

Zooming Out in Time
Friday, October 13th, 02006

Orville Schell

Orville Schell

China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term?
Friday, September 22nd 02006

John Rendon

John Rendon

Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short
Friday, July 14th 02006

Will Wright

Will Wright & Brian Eno

Playing with Time
Monday, June 26th 02006

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Chris Anderson with Will Hearst

The Long Time Tail
Friday, May 12th 02006

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Jimmy Wales

Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture
Friday, April 14th 02006

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Kevin Kelly

The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.
Friday, March 10th 02006

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Stephen Lansing

Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali
Monday, February 13th 02006

Peter Schwart

Peter Schwartz and Ralph Cavanagh

Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years
Friday, January 13th 02006

02005

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Sam Harris

The View from the End of the World
Friday, December 9th 02005

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Clay Shirky

Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories
Monday, November 14th 02005

Freeman Dyson

Freeman, George and Esther Dyson

The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead
Wednesday, October 5th 02005

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Ray Kurzweil

Kurzweil's Law
Friday, September 23rd 02005

Robert W. Fuller

Robert W. Fuller

Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future
Friday, August 12th 02005

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Jared Diamond

How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed
Friday, July 15th 02005

Robert Neuwirth

Robert Neuwirth

The 21st Century Medieval City
Friday, June 10th 02005

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Will Jarvis

Time Capsule Behavior
Friday, May 13th 02005

Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand

Cities & Time
Friday, April 8th 02005

Spencer Beebe

Spencer Beebe

Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry
Friday, March 11th 02005

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Roger Kennedy

The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD
Friday, February 25th 02005

James P. Carse

James P. Carse

Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game
Friday, January 14th 02005

02004

Ken Dychtwald

The Consequences of Human Life Extension
Friday, December 3rd 02004

Michael West

The Prospects of Human Life Extension
Friday, November 12th 02004

Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken

The Long Green
Friday, October 15th 02004

Danny Hillis

Progress on the 10,000-year Clock
Friday, September 10th 02004

Phillip Longman

The Depopulation Problem
Friday, August 13th 02004

Jill Tarter

The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy
Friday, July 9th 02004

Bruce Sterling

The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole
Friday, June 11th 02004

David Rumsey

Mapping Time
Friday, May 14th 02004

Daniel Janzen

Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening
Friday, April 9th 02004

Rusty Schweickart

The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years
Friday, March 12th 02004

James Dewar

Long-term Policy Analysis
Friday, February 13th 02004

George Dyson

There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing
Friday, January 9th 02004

02003

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Peter Schwartz

The Art Of The Really Long View
Friday, December 12th 02003

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Brian Eno

The Long Now
Friday, November 14th 02003

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