Future Salon

Webcast info for the Security Future Salon tonight

As promised here is the information to the Webcast tonight starting in a
couple of minutes:

IRC chat as always:
Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #futuresalon
As promised here the Webcast link.
Point your Quicktime viewer to the following address:
rtsp://207.105.30.90/salon.sdp

Of course if you live close, come on by.

Talk to you on the chat, Mark.

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Future Salon: Solution to Security Thread this Friday

Remember the excellent Security Future Salon with John Robb?  In the two hours he showed how technology trends lead to 4th generation warefare. Outcome of that trend may be a destabalizing of more and more nation states into guerilla warfare. It is a quite grim outlook.

Bruce Cahan afterwards came up to me and said: "This scared the bejeezus out of me. But I am working on a solution." 

We at the Future Salon headquarter are all for solutions and this is why I am very happy that Bruce is going to share his this Friday the 6th of October:   

Changing Finance: Socially-Responsive Debt, Sustainable Resiliency and the Means Meter*

Please RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/jrcps

Abstract: Al Gore aptly describes the planetary forces of energy, environment, industrialization, social justice, war and political malaise as an Inconvenient Truth. How much is Wall Street to blame? What if the finance and insurance markets allocated capital and insurance based on energy efficiency, conservationism, social equity of preparedness and other memes of profound human dignity and insight? What would that world of “high stakes” finance look like?

Short Bio: Bruce’s knowledge of finance, law, technology and government processes is unique and empowers his liaison for new ideas across many domains.

Bruce Cahan is a finance lawyer, who worked for 10 years in New York with the law firm of Weil Gotshal & Manges representing clients as diverse as General Electric Capital Corp, and the Salvation Army. After a Con Ed steam pipe burst outside his Gramercy Park apartment building, Bruce changed focus in 1990, and organized a nonprofit, Urban Logic, to apply technology, finance and institutional solutions to the problems of rebuilding fragile cities.

Bruce is a pioneer in the use of geospatial technologies. His work with OMB, the Federal Geographic Data Committee, EPA, US Geological Survey, the City and State of New York, OpenGIS Consortium and others led to major changes in the supply of publicly available spatial intelligence and analytical tools. In 1991, he was an early advocate of the need for New York Cityto map itself digitally, and the resulting base map delivered 6 months before 9/11 helped emergency work crews coordinate safe and effective response in Lower Manhattan

Bruce has briefed OECD in Paris, the European Community’s INSPIRE Initiative, the White House, Congress, GAO and other groups on his research. Bruce served at NYC’s Command Center, after 9/11, and his work on safeguarding cities reflects the lessons and mutual aid of those days.Details

Details: Future Salon has the following structure: 6-7 networking with light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP. From 7-9+pm presentation and discussion. SAP Labs North America, Building D, Room Southern Cross, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 [map] As always free and open to the public. Tell your friends. Improve your commute by sharing it with a fellow Futurist. Check the Ride Board for opportunities. Free and open to the public.

Please RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/jrcps so that we know which room and how much food and drinks to prepare.

We wil Webcast the event. Details to come soon. See you there.