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Future Fridays Speakers Series at Chabot Space & Science Center
Future Fridays -Brian David Johnson
Friday, March 23 (6pm-7:30pm)
A series of community conversations with science and futurist thought leaders. The first speaker in the series is Brian David Johnson. The future is Brian David Johnson's business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation, he develops an actionable vision for computing in 2020. His work is called "future casting"-using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and even science fiction to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. He is the author of Screen Future, The Future of Entertainment, Computing, and the Devices We Love. Brian has also directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter. Advance ticket holders will receive a complimentary copy of Brian’s recent book The Tomorrow Project Anthology - Conversations About the Future (2011). Tickets: $20 Members/ $23 Guests ($29 at the door, no discounts & subject to availability) Series Tickets (all four speakers): $66 Members / $78 Guests. Ticket proceeds help underwrite the educational programming at Chabot. This series is proudly sponsored by Rudney Associates
Upcoming Future Fridays Speakers:
Friday, April 20 - Ben Burtt- Sound Designer and Director at Lucasfilm/Pixar.
Friday, May 11 - Bill Nye the Climate Guy- scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor and driving force behind the Bill Nye's Climate Lab exhibition at Chabot Space & Science Center.
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Friday, November 2 - Ray Jayawardhana - a professor and Canada Research Chair in observational astrophysics at the University of Toronto.