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Future challenges in technology Greg Adamson Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne (Victoria) 5pm Sunday 1 March 2015

Over the past 30 years the technical community has developed an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the impact of technology on society. Global climate change, the importance of humanitarian technologies, technology for development, privacy and security, and the importance of ethics are all now accepted as part of the technology challenge. Is our job done? In this talk, Dr Greg Adamson (University of Melbourne), President of the IEEE’s Society on Social Implications of Technology, will speak about three important challenges for the next 20 to 50 years: the future of work; autonomous warfare; and, human-machine boundaries.

For more information visit: Website http://fd2015.scifuture.org Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Science-Technology-and-the-Future/events/220184121/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/futureday/

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