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Town Futurist Sessions Promo

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IN THE STUDIO // FUTURIST // BLACKSHEEP ARMY
FUTURIST performs "Blacksheep Army" LIVE at Galaxy Smith Studios in Brooklyn, NY. engineered by Dave Brandwein film by Dani Barbieri.

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As part of Tribeca Film Festival's "Future of Film" series, tomorrow, April 22, filmmaker and futurist Jason Silva (dubbed the "Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age" by The Atlantic) will muse about how humans are hardwired for story and cinema.

"Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else."

Despite technology, isn't it still about storytelling?

Diana Slattery writes thatImmersionis a "necessary precursor for any kind of interpersonal persuasion or transformation to occur".. Janet Murray writes that we "long to be immersed" and that we "actively metabolize belief in story"... because we are effectively narrative beings.

I'm fascinated by the liminal spaces we enter when we are absorbed by cinema: that magical borderland between dreams and reality, the space of archetype, of myth, of madness and ecstasy, the landscape of the imagination, freed from the constraints of time/space/ distance.

Art is the lie that reveals the truth, as they say. During the talk, I will talk about the lust for immersion we have, the moment we forget ourselves and become part of the movie consciousness and we leave our own consciousness behind.

We want to hold up a mirror to ourselves. Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else. A film allows us to enter the world of somebody else and the mind of another. I'm such a fan of that power that cinema has. I just find it endlessly inspiring.

My short films, which I call "Shots of Awe" are trailers for the mind-- they explore these topics and many more.

Watch a couple of Silva's short films below and find out more about Silva here.

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Tribeca Film Festival: Filmmaker and Futurist Jason Silva On How Humans Are Hardwired for Story and Cinema

PANIC STATE - FUTURIST (Original Mix)
Futurist is a breakbeat monster that starts off in your face, then breaks into a progressive anthem before hitting you hard once again with its infectious sy...

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Futurist Flight Radio #9
We #39;re back with the Next Edition of Futurist Flight, the nineth. We #39;re here to show you the awsome anthems we found, including the New Awsome track Paradise,...

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Brother Amir #39;s views on The Town Futurist Movement

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One Stupid Futurist - Deep
"Standing somewhere in Liverpool, reading the word "future" on a weird sign and thinking about how stupid it could be. So why don #39;t take samples from the pas...

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Garry Golden- Futurist State of City Ontario 2014
Academically trained Futurist Garry Golden speaking about the Future of Transportation Infrastructure. Video used with Permission. Rights retained City of On...

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Holistic and Sacred Spaces: Phillip Daffara at TEDxNoosa 2014
Phillip Daffara: Futurist Architect Bio: Phillip Daffara is a registered architect, urban designer and professional futurist advocating ecological design a...

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Last month we told you about 20 terms every self-respecting futurist should know, but now it's time to turn our attention to the opposite. Here are 10 pseudofuturist catchphrases and concepts that need to be eliminated from your vocabulary.

Top image: Screen grab from Elysium.

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Some futurists toss this word around in a way that's not too far removed from its religious roots. The hope is that our technologies can help us experience our existence beyond normal or physical bounds. Now, it very well may be true that we'll eventually learn how to emulate brains in a computer, but it's an open question as to whether or not we'll be able to transfer consciousness itself. In other words, the future may not for us it'll be for our copies. So it's doubtful any biological being will ever literally experience the process of transcension (just the illusion of it).

What's more, life in a "transcendent" digitized realm, while full of incredible potential, will be no walk in the park; full release, or transcendence, is not likely an achievable goal. Emulated minds, or ems, will be prone to hacking, deletion, unauthorized copying, and subsistence wages. Indeed, a so-called uploaded mind may be free from its corporeal form, but it won't be free from economic and physical realities, including the safety and reliability of the supercomputer running the ems, and the costs involved in procuring sufficient processing power and storage space.

Vernor Vinge co-opted this term from cosmology as a way to describe a blind spot in our predictive thinking, or more specifically our inability to predict what will happen after the advent of greater-than-human machine intelligence. But since that time, the Technological Singularity has degenerated to a term void of any true meaning.

In addition to its quasi-religious connotations, it has become a veritable Rorschach Test for futurists. The Singularity has been used to describe accelerating change or a future time when progress in technology occurs almost instantly. It has also be used to describe humanity's transition into a posthuman condition, mind uploads, and the advent of a utopian era. Because of all the baggage this term has accumulated, and because the peril that awaits us coming clearer into focus (e.g. the Intelligence Explosion), it's a term that needs to be put to bed, replaced by more substantive and unambiguous hypotheses.

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I wholeheartedly agree that we should use technology to build the kind of future we want for ourselves and our descendants. Absolutely. But it's important for us to acknowledge the challenges we're sure to face in trying to do so and the unintended consequences of our efforts.

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10 Futurist Phrases And Terms That Are Complete Bullshit