MS Futures Group

Technology Futures Institute

The goal of the Technology Futures Institute is to use philosophy to improve the rigor of our thinking about science and technology.

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Ethics of Perception in Nanocognition: Perception is a feature (Glass, electronic contacts, nanorobotic cognitive aids), not an evolutionary given, therefore how do we want to perceive
Digital Art and Philosophy Class: Integration of science/technology, aesthetics, and meaning-making in complex human endeavor
A Critical Theory of BioArt: How artists appropriating biological materials and practices to create art is or is not art
Conceptualizing Big Data: How big data is remaking our world
Property Rights of Interior Property: What are appropriate individual, commons, or environmental property models for our interior property such as genomic information, neurons, and thoughts?
Top 20 New Philosophy Concepts: 20 new philosophical concepts articulating technology philosophy YouTube: Top 20 New Philosophy Concepts YouTube: What is Technology Philosophy
Futurist Philosophy Research Agenda: Top 10 Topics: Philosophy can be helpful in thinking through many traditional topics that may evolve in our technologized future: personal identity, subject/object, self/other, self/world, mortality, language, meaning, being, and ontology
Heideggerian Understanding of Technology-Making: Developing technology such that we have a free and enabling relation to it and open up functionality while limiting the totalizing possibility of technology if misued
Rethinking Language and Communication: Rethinking Lacan, Chomsky, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Searle as technology is allowing a more robust full communication through biosensor data broadcast, holographic thought projection, and AR displays
Collaboration 2.0: How our notion of ourselves and our capacities as individuals and groups is changing with massive new Internet collaboration models

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Strategic Collaborations, Research Papers, Articles
Speaking engagements, Workshops, Classes, Conferences
Live Philosophy Workshop: Hands on concept generation
Philosophy Studies: Epistemology, Subjective Experience