{"id":14129,"date":"2017-03-01T06:52:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T06:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=294563"},"modified":"2017-03-01T21:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:15:13","slug":"join-the-around-the-world-24-hour-conversation-on-the-future-to-celebrate-world-future-day-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2017\/03\/01\/join-the-around-the-world-24-hour-conversation-on-the-future-to-celebrate-world-future-day-march-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the around-the-world 24-hour conversation on the future to celebrate World Future Day March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Futurists from the 55 Millennium Project nodes worldwide will join other organizations and the public on March 1 to exchange ideas about the future<\/p><\/div>\n

Futurists worldwide plan to celebrate March 1 as World Future Day with a 24-hour conversation about the world\u2019s potential futures, challenges, and opportunities.<\/p>\n

At 12 noon your local time on March 1, you can click on a Google hangout at goo.gl\/4hCJq3<\/a>\u00a0and join the conversation* (log in with a Google account).\u00a0 It starts at 12 noon (midnight in New York) in Auckland, New Zealand\u00a0and moves across the world, ending in Honolulu at 12 noon Honolulu time.<\/p>\n

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The World Futures Studies Federation, Association of Professional Futurists, and Humanity+ have joined forces with The Millennium Project<\/a>** to invite their members and the public to participate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an open\u00a0discussion about the future,\u201c says Jerome Glenn, CEO of The Millennium Project.\u00a0\u201cPeople will be encouraged to share their ideas about how to build a better future.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the fourth year The Millennium Project has done this. Previous World Future Days have discussed issues like:<\/p>\n