Thinking about the future can make you feel optimistic or hopeless. Who knows what it holds? From our politics to the very resources we rely on, we haven’t yet found a balance between our needs and wants, and the things that sustain them. We are in a new era. Of growing and changing population, economic failings and headwinds, changes to our environments and the mix of biodiversity on our planet. We are unsure of our resources, whether its land, energy, food or water. Technological advances are delivering ethical minefields. And with each change, our choices expand and others get left behind. We don’t know if we’ll have jobs. Or what those jobs will look like. We don’t even know what we will look like – our communities, families, our children, even our own reflections. But perhaps we’re just in the messy process of future-proofing humanity. Hear from philosopher, author and professor, Clive Hamilton, futurist and director of MOD., University of South Australia’s “immersive museum of discovery”, Kristin Alford, science and health journalist, Signe Dean and Toby Walsh, professor of artificial intelligence at UNSW as they discuss if we're designing our own end. // Find out more about The Ethics Centre: http://www.ethics.org.au Experience our events: http://www.ethics.org.au/events Join our newsletter: http://ethicscentre.force.com/EthicsN... Be part of our community: Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ethicscentre See us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ethics_centre Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/ethics_centre