Radical futures: Meet Jonathan Ledgard, Director of Rossums and author of Submergence, a New York Times book of the year
Radical futures: Meet Jonathan Ledgard, Director of Rossums and author of Submergence, a New York Times book of the year
Radical futures: Meet Jonathan Ledgard, Director of Rossums and author of Submergence, a New York Times book of the year
Jonathan Ledgard is Director of Rossums, a new studio that seeks to identify technology opportunities for poorer communities. He was Director of the Future Africa Initiative at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL) until 2016. Since 2012, he has led a consortium of leading roboticists, architects, and logisticians that seeks to build the first Droneport in the world in Africa in 2016.
Jonathan Ledgard spent two decades as an award-winning frontline foreign correspondent for The Economist. His second novel, Submergence, a New York Times book of the year, is presently being adapted for Hollywood by Wim Wenders.
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McGill’s Building 21: Thinking beyond the acknowledged, the recognized and the comfortable.
From quantum physics to poetry; from neuroscience to geography; from philosophy to immersive realities; from the microcosm to the campus, Building 21 is a space where one can explore, play with, manipulate, bend, break and probe the multi-faceted aspects and dimensions of ideas, knowledge and thinking.Building 21's Radical Futures will attempt to identify and analyze long term patterns, and to perceive not only the forest from the trees, but the shades of the entire continent. The future is an unknown space, an unknown continent of possibilities. Radical Futures is a gathering of explorers for whom shades of the future offer clues to what we are, to who we are, to how and why we are changing. Radical Futures starts from the premise that the future is quantum-like, in the sense that all possibilities exist until they collapse into reality through observations, actions, involvement.www.building21.caJoin Podchaser to...
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