The World in 2050

What kind of world will we inhabit 40 years from now? What moral codes will we live by? Will age replace class as the great dividing line between generations? Will we be ruled by supercomputers? And what fuels will we use for power?

Chair:
Jack Klaff, former professor of the public understanding of science at Starlab in Brussels

Speakers:
Dr Ian Goldin Director, James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford
Dr Malcolm McCulloch, Director of the Institute for Carbon and Energy Reduction in Transport (a 21C School Institute)
Professor Sarah Harper, Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing (a 21C School Institute)
Professor Julian Savulescu, Director of the Programme on Ethics of the New Biosciences (a 21C School Institute)

Tickets: Cost £25 each and can only be purchased from Intelligence Squared.

Date & time: 22 September 2009, 6.45 to 8.30 pm (doors open at 6pm)

Location: Royal Geographical Society, London

Full details: Can be found at www.intelligencesquared.com/events.php?event=EVT0202.