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Intelligence Squared Festival 2016

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Time 11:00
Date 05/11/16
Price £75

A one-day deep dive into the world’s most thrilling ideas and technologies.

Highlights include:

World renowned choreographer Wayne McGregor will talk about how his lifelong interest in science and technology has informed his art, fuelling cross-disciplinary collaborations with cognitive scientists, anthropologists and experimental psychologists.

Former Anonymous and LulzSec hacker Jake Davis will tell of his exploits as a teenage hacktivist who was arrested and banned from the internet.

Artists collective Random International, best known for their experiential Rain Room, will discuss how they address the relationship between man and machine through their interactive installations.

Fashion designer Mary Katrantzou, acclaimed for her pioneering work with digital printed textiles, and Stuart Wood, head of innovation at Heatherwick Studio, whose projects include the New Bus for London and the new Google Campus in California, will discuss their ideas and inspirations.

Theoretical physicist Christophe Galfard will explain how the discovery earlier this year of gravitational waves – ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein – has opened up an entirely new way of observing the universe.

Urban farmer Kate Hofman will explain how indoor vertical farming could help meet the world’s increasing demand for food. At GrowUp Urban Farms in East London she is using hydroponics and LED lighting in a circulating system to produce thousands of kilograms of fish and salads every year for the local community.

Biologist Eran Segal will talk about the astounding unseen part of the human body which we are just beginning to learn about – the 100 trillion bacteria and other microbes that make up our microbiome.

Embryologist and genome editing expert Corinne Houart will discuss CRISPR Cas9, a breakthrough genetic technology that allows us to change our DNA, offering hope that inherited illnesses and conditions can be corrected.

Radical thinker Rutger Bregman will set out his vision of a universal basic income. With rising inequality and the growing threat to jobs from machine intelligence, giving everyone a guaranteed, ‘no strings’ income could promote human dignity and set people free.

As with all Intelligence Squared events there will be debate, discussion and dissent, along with our all-important audience participation.

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