Keynote speaker on global trends, author of 16 Futurist books - Patrick Dixon.
Technology, Telecom, Mobile, Innovation Keynotes
Seminar for Dimension Data on how consumers and companies want something different from software companies. How their needs are changing - videolinks to audiences in 3 remote sites. Trends: winners and losers and secrets of success.
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Future Travel Keynote Speaker:Auto, Rail, Aviation
How Virgin Galactic is taking tourists on trips into space at $200,000 a time. Video of first attempt in new vehicle which will do two trips a day. Dr Patrick Dixon interview of Stephen Attenborough at Google Zeitgeist in 2007. Global warming and evironmental concerns, but heavy demand for these space trips. Space travel is the highest profile part of a major new travel trend: search for experience, especially amongst older wealthy people. Other articles / videos on future of travel, tourism, hotels, aviation and hospitality industries.
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Future Health Care and Pharma Keynote Speaker
Article about bird flu written in November 2005. Global human pandemic of bird flu or similar virus is only a matter of time according to the World Health Organisation. World Bank says cost to wealthy nations alone up to $550bn. Several countries talk about closing borders if needed. "Worst-case" death toll remains very unlikely if appropriate action is taken at every stage, and a pandemic could turn out to be no more serious than a larger-than-usual outbreak of ordinary flu. Greatest risk could be emotional reaction to spread. However US government worst-case estimate is 1.9 million US deaths. UK government's worst-case is 800,000 deaths. UN global worst-case is 60 million deaths and 2% fall in output of the global economy.
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What is Human Cloning? How to Clone. But Ethical?
Human cloning: who is cloning humans, how, why and who is paying
How human clones are being made - for medical research. Arguments for and against human cloning research. Why investors are moving away from human cloning and why human cloning now looks a last-century way to fight disease. Why some people want to clone themselves or even to clone the dead (and not just cloning pets).
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