Thursday, October 24, 2024
12.40-14.15 (Part 1)
15.15-17.00 (Part 2)
Digital Technologies and Human Consciousness: A Futures Workshop for Exploring Potential Implications
Led by Terho Ojell-Järventausta
Organizers: Terho Ojell-Järventausta (Tampere University, Finland), Anatolii Belousov (Tampere University, Finland), Mila Bujić (Tampere University, Finland), Joseph Macey (Tampere University, Finland) and Juho Hamari (Tampere University, Finland)
Participants are requested to apply: https://survey.tuni.fi/lime/591655?lang=en
Over the past decades, digital technologies have permeated many everyday tasks and practices, reshaping human behaviour and causing unintended consequences. The emergence of artificial intelligence, extended reality, brain-computer interfaces, and nanotechnology have increased the likelihood of a future in which the impact of digital technologies reaches an unprecedented degree by expanding human consciousness. As such, the societal implications of such developments require an urgent evaluation. In this workshop, we will approach these through futures clinique method to identify drivers and obstacles of change and potential societal implications through different future scenarios of digitally induced altered states of consciousness (DIAL). The workshop’s contributions comprise novel future scenarios that will aid in identifying potential benefits of DIAL and strategies for mitigating risks. It will provide a platform for exploring the implications of these emerging technologies through a novel perspective (DIAL) that is not currently prominent in the discourse but must be considered to mitigate unintended consequences.