Future Discoveries

Think Week welcomes Anders Sandberg from the Future of Humanity Institute to discuss future discoveries.

We have good reasons to expect that in the future we will know vastly more than today about the world. Yet, can we say anything about *what* we will discover and how it will change our worldview? What technologies can we predict? Can we say anything about where the next Einstein will occur?

Anders Sandberg is a James Martin Research Fellow at the FHI, a science debater, futurist, transhumanist, computational neuroscientist and author. His research focusses on the societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement and new technology, as well as on assessing the capabilities and underlying science of future technologies. He has worked on cognitive enhancement, on a technical roadmap for whole brain emulation, on neuroethics; and on global catastrophic risks.

A self-experimentalist, he has admitted to using cognitive enhancers such as modafinil and to have carried out sequencing of his own genome, whose findings he is open to sharing.