OFC Meeting 14 - Revision history

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Jess at 20:12, 21 September 2022

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'''April 2019''':
==="Free-for-All" Discussion of future Futures Topics===
Feel free to add your thoughts here!
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You might want to revisit our first, second or third "free-for-alls" to harvest some ideas.

===AGENDA ITEMS===

* [mailto:annelink@telus.net Anne Toby], CEO of the ElderCollege, came to our last meeting and made some great contributions. We hope she will soon give us a talk on her specialty, ''Human Genetics''. (Can humans modify themselves enough, or in time, to "cure" their tendency to destroy everything around them?)
* '''Keith''' suggested we might soon discuss
- the future of '''''Music''''',
- the future of '''''Big Pharma'''''
- and the role of '''''Medical Ethics and the Law'''''.
- In addition, in our efforts to get much '''''younger people''''' to attend our meetings, we might want to visit the local high school (Kwalikum) to see if it has a ''student debate group'' and if so whether some of its members might like to join us on the second Tuesday of each month!
* In our last meeting '''Philip''' led off the discussion with a reminder about the central issue of Optimism ''vs.'' Pessimism about the Future.
* This time '''Jess''' will make a few initial remarks about '''Farming in the Future''', from which we will doubtless move on to who-knows-what. Recommended ''reading'': [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl "The Windup Girl"] by Paolo Bacigalupi. Recommended ''viewing'': "AGCC heretic" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pou3sGedeK4 Freeman Dyson] explains the connection between soil and carbon dioxide emissions. Here's another Dyson talk, this one given in Russia: [http://jick.net/pix/MOVIES/Dyson-eng.mp4 "Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society"]. (We could probably base half a dozen OFC meetings on his various "heresies".) If you have another hour to spare, you might also enjoy watching [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntJouJhLM48 Living Soil], a film by the Soil Health Institute. I can't vouch for its accuracy, but it ''seems'' authoritative.
* Feel free to add an Agenda item here!

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 * [mailto:annelink@telus.net Anne Toby], CEO of the ElderCollege, came to our last meeting and made some great contributions.  We hope she will soon give us a talk on her specialty, ''Human Genetics''.  (Can humans modify themselves enough, or in time, to "cure" their tendency to destroy everything around them?)
 * '''Keith''' suggested we might soon discuss
-- the future of '''''Music''''',
+# the future of '''''Music''''',
-- the future of '''''Big Pharma'''''
+# the future of '''''Big Pharma''''' and the role of '''''Medical Ethics and the Law'''''.
+# In addition, in our efforts to get much '''''younger people''''' to attend our meetings, we might want to visit the local high school (Kwalikum) to see if it has a ''student debate group'' and if so whether some of its members might like to join us on the second Tuesday of each month!
-- and the role of '''''Medical Ethics and the Law'''''.
-- In addition, in our efforts to get much '''''younger people''''' to attend our meetings, we might want to visit the local high school (Kwalikum) to see if it has a ''student debate group'' and if so whether some of its members might like to join us on the second Tuesday of each month!
 * In our last meeting '''Philip''' led off the discussion with a reminder about the central issue of Optimism ''vs.'' Pessimism about the Future.
 * This time '''Jess''' will make a few initial remarks about '''Farming in the Future''', from which we will doubtless move on to who-knows-what.  Recommended ''reading'':  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl "The Windup Girl"] by Paolo Bacigalupi.  Recommended ''viewing'': "AGCC heretic" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pou3sGedeK4 Freeman Dyson] explains the connection between soil and carbon dioxide emissions.  Here's another Dyson talk, this one given in Russia: [http://jick.net/pix/MOVIES/Dyson-eng.mp4 "Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society"].  (We could probably base half a dozen OFC meetings on his various "heresies".)  If you have another hour to spare, you might also enjoy watching [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntJouJhLM48 Living Soil], a film by the Soil Health Institute.  I can't vouch for its accuracy, but it ''seems'' authoritative.