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1314th Ordinary General Meeting and Open Lecture — 2 August 2023
"Convergence: the hybridisation of the future"
In conversation: Dr Catherine Ball (Futurist, Author, Researcher, Rebel) with Maria MacNamara (Director, Government Affairs and Innovation Strategy, Kyndryl)
The presentation commences at 00:02:17
https://royalsoc.org.au/blog/1314th-ogm-and-open-lecture
Timing Marks:
00:00:00 Introduction to the Speaker: Dr Susan Pond AM FRSN FTSE FAHMS, President, Royal Society of NSW
00:02:17 Maria MacNamara and Catherine Ball — in conversation
00:40:52 Audience Q&A
01:09:49 Vote of Thanks — Dr Elizabeth Deane FRSN, Secretary, Program Committee, Royal Society of NSW
Summary: Convergent technologies are accelerating business model evolution, and also changing our tolerance and social licence around them. How can we accept technologies we don’t understand? Is there trust when it comes to taking these hardware and software into our homes? Would you let your children have an implantable device, or even offer up your genome as proof of ID?
As the world mixes the human and the technological, we are entering Industry 5.0- the Internet of Things has become the Internet of Bodies. How much privacy are we willing to hand over in order to protect the cyber security of life as usual? All these questions have been around for some time, but they have never been so pressing.
With the rise and rise of Generative AI, the scaling of technology seems to have caught some by surprise: including our regulators and governance leaders. Associate Professor Catherine Ball PhD DSc will aim to open some of Pandora’s box and demystify where we are and what future we are looking at. Ultimately we still have consent. We can still turn it all off. Can’t we?
1314th Ordinary General Meeting and Open Lecture — 2 August 2023
"Convergence: the hybridisation of the future"
In conversation: Dr Catherine Ball (Futurist, Author, Researcher, Rebel) with Maria MacNamara (Director, Government Affairs and Innovation Strategy, Kyndryl)
The presentation commences at 00:02:17
https://royalsoc.org.au/blog/1314th-ogm-and-open-lecture
Timing Marks:
00:00:00 Introduction to the Speaker: Dr Susan Pond AM FRSN FTSE FAHMS, President, Royal Society of NSW
00:02:17 Maria MacNamara and Catherine Ball — in conversation
00:40:52 Audience Q&A
01:09:49 Vote of Thanks — Dr Elizabeth Deane FRSN, Secretary, Program Committee, Royal Society of NSW
Summary: Convergent technologies are accelerating business model evolution, and also changing our tolerance and social licence around them. How can we accept technologies we don’t understand? Is there trust when it comes to taking these hardware and software into our homes? Would you let your children have an implantable device, or even offer up your genome as proof of ID?
As the world mixes the human and the technological, we are entering Industry 5.0- the Internet of Things has become the Internet of Bodies. How much privacy are we willing to hand over in order to protect the cyber security of life as usual? All these questions have been around for some time, but they have never been so pressing.
With the rise and rise of Generative AI, the scaling of technology seems to have caught some by surprise: including our regulators and governance leaders. Associate Professor Catherine Ball PhD DSc will aim to open some of Pandora’s box and demystify where we are and what future we are looking at. Ultimately we still have consent. We can still turn it all off. Can’t we?
