translated from Spanish: Girardi grew up canines: seeks to capitalize on the future Congress global

during the seven days that lasted the future 2019 Congress (CF), the debate and the discussion were taken all the spaces in Santiago and in regions, live and in digital format. There was to those who marked them the talk of Richard Dawkins, who adorned as the most influential atheist according to the Vatican, said that “invoke a God to explain the world is degrading”; or Brigitte Baptiste, biologist and expert on biodiversity, which wasted no time in explaining his apparent activism transgender to focus on the urgency of climate change. Cross interest also was Artificial Intelligence, advances in Brain of Rafael Yuste project and the addition of two new letters to the string of DNA, allowing Floyd Romensberg to create the first living organism unnatural and semi-synthetic. ‘I threatened by ignorance and believe that you suit to be God,’ he said.
But outside the big issues, doors inside, the future 2019 Congress opened a new administrative scheme involving taking Senate powers to pass them on to the Foundation encounters of the future, Daniel Fernández Koprich, presiding with the idea of improve private funding and to project the scientific event beyond national borders.
At this point, Guido Girardi – President of the Commission challenges of the future – spares no efforts to free their imagination and ambitions. For promoter of this activity of dissemination of scientific thought, the destiny of the future Congress is to become “a center of alternative thinking of planetary character”. In other words, the PPD Senator goes by the planet.
Global directory Girardi concerns are clearly different from those of their colleagues of the Congress in Valparaiso. Her latest effort is “neuroprotection”, a design of mental rights that seeks to protect the privacy of the thoughts once the Brain project able to decode the interaction of the billions of neurons in the human brain and eventually be You can read the mind. Another of their apprehensions on a global scale is laying the foundations for what would be a sort of cognitive resistance to the post-neoliberalism, represented by the political and economic suprapoder of giants such as Google, Facebook, Amazon or Microsoft technology.
“I am forming an editorial Committee with scientists and scientific coming, that’s the 2020 challenge: that the near future Congress has the participation of all these scientists who have been part of this event and to create a virtual community, so that they are” “, in a certain way, a virtual, global, global directory of the future Congress”, explains.
“This has to be collaborative, because the CF cannot be only of Chile. I say to them that the future Congress is a laboratory of social innovation, which has to evolve”, he adds.
The idea, says Girardi, is the event that came to the fold of the Senate to be an epicenter of alternative thinking. The PPD Senator, the great challenge of humanity is the monopoly of the construction of the future of humanity, in this sense “States, politics, even universities are paralysed, because we do not understand the world as well and those who are thinking the” future are Google, Facebook.”
“We are witnessing great changes at every level, politics will be obsolete, are living a planned obsolescence of everything and within that is the national State,” contextualizes, at the time that confesses that he wants to “that this is felt as their own by others Latin American actors, who could come and be here so that they feel included, to make a South American pole of new thought, for the rest of humanity. We need to build global citizenship”, he stressed.
Wave without a vision more focused on local challenges beach is what raises Fernandez Koprich – former director of State enterprises during the consultation, including TVN-, for whom the biggest concern is the dichotomy between the rapid advancement of science and the technology and the lack of awareness and capacity to assimilate all this from the point of public policy and education. “That creates a huge wave and do not see the beach ready to receive it, to put it in some way,” he says.
This being the first year in which the Foundation future meetings co-organized the CF, Fernandez adds the worry by the Artificial Intelligence (AI), but not only for the power that can be achieved, but due to the lack of reflection on human capabilities. “We are constantly discussing AI, cognitive capacity of the machines and are not unbelievable me concerned of how human we will cognitively evolve to realize a new world that opens and we do not have the mentality” sufficiently developed, to face it.”
With the mission to serve as a link for, among other things, attracting private financing, Fernandez – who had overcome their more complex time when it broke down HidroAysén initiative, which served as Executive Vice President – manifests itself optimistic with the link between policy and science following cf. “President and his ministers are very committed to the CF, very interested, and so I hope that that gap, which I mentioned earlier, can begin to close as politics understand that it is here” “, to a large extent, where the future is played much more than many girls things which we are discussing every day”, says.
Glass half-empty the executive director of the Foundation meeting of the future, Nicolás Fernández, recognizes that a project of this magnitude is not error-free: “the number of exhibitors and their logistics, the public eye in each of the locations along” “Chile, the uniqueness of each region and its ecosystem of local coordination and the presence of public and private in a free event for scientific dissemination, actors are more than enough to create a small perfect storm”.
Coordination, however, was not that brought major headaches, but – paradoxically – live streaming technology, that was the responsibility of the Senate. “Our main problem was the streaming. Despite having a substantial investment in each of the areas that support the event (production, communication, broadcasting, technology), this last is a service that the Senate puts at the disposal of the Organization and which we have no control. While we understand that future Congress is born to the eave of the Senate and that, therefore, in its early days throughout your entire organization was concentrated in the equity of the Corporation, today that all systems are required to a higher standard. We hope, for the following years reinforce this system and allow that all Chile can connect without interruption to talks of the future Chile we want”raises Fernandez.
When it comes to the overall assessment with various indicators, acknowledges that the event was a success. “In Chile there is genuine interest in these topics and our society is open to consume relevant information whenever there are specific efforts by making them available.” As proof of this, he lists “the tickets were sold out in some cases in 20 minutes, the media made permanent and detailed coverage, companies, academia, the Government and Congress, joined together to finance, perhaps, the only event that collaboratively articulates them to deliver a public good. All this we pride ourselves as a team and should be proud of us all”, he says.
Low to high “the high growth that has had this encounter and the need of the citizen more than 500 media requests registered and granted in 5 days only in Santiago, where nearly 40% were made out of the former Congress and many others at the headquarters, show IA by learning more about science, technology and innovation, not only national but also international,”says Jessica Soto, head of communications of the CF.
But the internal structure of the CF is not progressing at the same rate. Along with the problem of streaming, another great challenge that was incredible – given the nature of the event – was the lack of technology in the press room during the first two days. With hundreds of accredited journalists, access was restricted from the nave where took place the event to the press room, which forced rounding out the enclosure. And when he was achieved to reach the room, there was no internet access. Fortunately, potholes were solved to the extent that moved the Congress.
From the perspective of management, the higher demand was to attempt to respond to all requirements. “The high degree of stress is born because we want to give them the taste of all the media, and sometimes by the exhibitors agendas we can not please them all. We see the enormous effort that make journalists and producers for an interview and, when not achieved – for some reason unrelated to our-, press team is also frustrated looking for all media alternatives to achieve the objective: the interview with the exhibitor. When you take 26 years in the media understand all the effort and professionalism that is behind every journalist who expects to make his work”, says Soto.
From the perspective of the contents, Silvia Díaz, Scientific Director of the Foundation, concludes that this year were much more reflective to that in earlier versions and all were willing to answer the big question: which species do we want to be? “From neuroscientists, geneticists, astronomers, experts in IA, to humanists, share that current human seeks a new awareness, which we should go. All the technology there are”you should be the basis for greater empathy, well-being, resilience with what surrounds us and not machines exceed human beings”, summarizes.

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