Futures: What will be in 2050?
The "S" in STEEPED
What is "Social"
All the planets in our solar system in order starting from closest to the sun to the furthest
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
According to Malabou, what are the three main types of brain plasticity?
What are Developmental, modulational, and reparative plasticity?
These trees were planted in 1912 as a peace symbol between Japan and the US.
What are cherry blossoms?
About this percentage of the human body is made up of water.
What is 80%?
The author of "The Gentle Singularity and Your World"
Who is Sam Altman?
This is how much larger the Earth is compared to the moon
What is 4 times?
The name given to the famous statues of Greece's "Archaic Period"?
What are Kouros?
This statue can be found between Katzen and Nebraska, and represents a tool that can be used to view small items like cells.
What is a microscope?
This concept describes a world without a global government, where states must fend for themselves.
What is anarchy?
A being that integrates both biological and artificial components, where technology enhances or replaces biological functions
What is a "cyborg"
The closest major galaxy to the Milky Way?
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
The "closed" meaning of plasticity refer to?
What is holding its shape permanently after being formed?
What ancient empire is the ampitheater based on?
Who are the ancient Greeks?
This United Nations goal calls for ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
What is Sustainable Development Goal 6?
A descriptive tool useful to futurists in visually representing the variety of alternative (potential) futures, expanding outwards from a central point
What is a future's cone
This constellation is famous for its belt.
This is why Malabou think comparing the brain to a computer is outdated?
What is making the brain seem rigid and centralized, missing its distributed, network-like nature?
This building on campus was used as a chemical testing site, once called Camp American.
What is Hurst Hall?
Also known as PFAS, these harmful substances contaminate drinking water supplies and build up in the environment and our bodies because they do not easily break down.
What are forever chemicals?
A philosophical and intellectual movement that advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available new and future technologies that can greatly enhance longevity, cognition, and well-being.
What is Transhumanism?
The name of the belt surrounding the outside of our solar system
What is the Kuiper Belt?
Malabou's main concern about the "synaptic self" concept?
What is explaining how we transition from brain stuff to mind stuff?
What is one of the most commonly consumed drugs in the world (hint: it binds to adenosine receptors and “tricks” them by speeding up neural pathways)
What is caffeine?
In many US cities, this group often pays up to ten times more per liter when buying water from vendors than wealthier households pay for piped water.
Who are the urban poor? (Sedlak, p. 12)