Clem Bezold

Clement (Clem) Bezold, Ph.D., co-founded the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) in 1977 with Alvin Toffler and James Dator to encourage “anticipatory democracy” and foresight. During his four decades of leadership at IAF, he worked for international organizations and national governments, the largest corporations and non-profit
organizations, and communities on six continents.

In the process IAF developed the unique “Aspirational Futures” approach to foresight that stresses vision development and scenarios that explore expectable, challenging, and visionary space.

Source: Website

Leading Scientists Discuss Converging Technologies: Clement Bezold
STIP IdeaLab – 23/12/2014 (07:50)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzDALs2O4h4&ab_channel=STIPIdeaLab

This is one of a series of interviews with scientists working at the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science. Participants discuss their definition of technological convergence, how this might affect various scientific fields and what obstacles must be addressed to reach convergence’s full potential.

In this video, Clement Bezold of the Institute for Alternative Futures discusses technological convergence. This work is part of the international study, “Societal Convergence for Human Progress,” sponsored by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The final report, Convergence of Knowledge, Technology and Society: Beyond Convergence of Nano-Bio-Info-Cognitive Technologies, can be downloaded here: http://www.wtec.org/NBIC2/Docs/FinalR…

Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.

He is the co-founder and CTO of Inrupt.com, a tech start-up that uses, promotes and helps develop the open source Solid platform. Solid aims to give people control and agency over their data, questioning many assumptions about how the web has to work. Solid technically is a new level of standard at the web layer, which adds features never put into the original spec, such as global single sign-on, universal access control, and a universal data API so that any app can store data in any storage place. Socially Solid is a movement away from much of the issues with the current WWW, and toward a world in which users are in control, and empowered by large amounts of data, private, shared, and public.

Source: W3 Consortium

Solid - A Better Web (Simply Explained)
Simply Explained – 11/03/2021 (07:20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWVTjMsv7AE&ab_channel=SimplyExplained

We have no privacy on the web anymore. Our data is stored with many third-parties, some even sell it behind our backs. Solid aims to put all our data in a single place that’s under our control (pods).

Changing the way we deal with personal data. Solid was started by the inventor of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. I can’t wait to see the next generation of apps and services being built on Solid.

OnAir Post: Tim Berners-Lee

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