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20/20 Visions of the Future:
Anticipating the year 2020

An International Symposium

Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century
Friday, March 3,
Cabot Auditorium, 8:30pm

Nazli Choucri
Professor, Political Science, MIT; Associate Director, Technology and Development Program; Head, Middle East Program; Former Director, Energy and Development Research Program, MIT; Author, Forecasting in International Relations: Theory, Methods, Problems, Prospects; Editor, Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Population and Conflict

Robert Heilbroner
Economist; Author, Visions of the Future, The Worldly Philosophers, Twenty-First Century Capitalism

Jennifer Leaning
Editor, Medicine and Global Survival; Physicians for Social Responsibility

Franklin Loew
Dean, School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University

Philip Morrison
Theoretical Physicist, Professor emeritus, MIT; Reviewer, Scientific American; Co-Author, The Ring of Truth: An Inquiry into How We Know What We Know

Myron Weiner
Former Director, Center for International Studies, MIT; Author, The State Religion and Ethnic Politics and International Migration and Security

Murray Gell-Mann
Nobel Laureate Physicist; Co-Founder, Santa Fe Institute; Chair, President's Advisory Commission on Science and Technology; Millikan Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology; Author, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex

Agnes Denes
Conceptual/Environmental Artist; Author, "Book of Dust: The Beginning and the End of Time and Thereafter"; Exhibitions include: Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Seibu Art Museum in Tokyo, Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

Bruce Mazlish
Professor of History, MIT; Author, The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co Evolution of Humans and Machines

Friday

Being Digital

The Global Merge: The Digital Revolution and Information Technology

Symposium Welcome and Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award and The Future of Sustainability: Thinking About Complex Adaptive Systems

An Artist's Vision of the Future

Fin de Siecle: Back to the Future

Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century

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