PLANETWORK Conference
updated May 11, 2000 - 12:50 pm PDT

Friday, May 12, 2000

Afternoon 3:00 pm
West Room
Center Room
East Room
Room A
Room B
3:00 pm

Opening Welcome

   

Promise Ahead: Humanity's Journey Toward a Culture of Meaning

Duane Elgin
 social scientist and author of Awakening Earth and Voluntary Simplicity

Biodiversity Perils and Opportunities

Peter Warshall
Multi-disciplinary scientist, eco-activist and editor of Whole Earth

Tranforming Learning and Travel through the Digital Earth

Douglas Gordin
SRI International

Green Maps Online:
charting nature & culture in urban places

Wendy Brawer
industrial designer, creator of the Green Map System

Chaos & the Web Workshop

Ralph Abraham
chaos mathematician, author and creator of The Visual Math Institute

Consciousness -
The Last Frontier

Peter Russell
futurist and author of The Global Brain Awakens, Waking Up in Time, and From Science to God

Envisioning Earth

Payson Stevens
New media creator, author of Embracing Earth: New Views of Our Changing Planet

The Infinite Grid as a Platform
for Interoperability

Pliny Fisk
pioneering ecological architect, designer and planner, and developer of ecological design database visualization tools, Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems

3:15 pm. Chaos theory for smarties (a fast forward)

3:45 pm. James Lovelock, the Gaia Hypothesis, and Daisyworld

4:15 pm. Cellular dynamical systems to save the world
Feel free to come and go.
5:00 - 7:00 pm Dinner Break On your own in San Francisco

Evening Program
7:00 pm
  Center Room East Room
7:00 - 9:30 pm Welcome & Keynote Session
 Video Simulcast for Overflow Audience
 

Use it or Lose it:
Defending the Internet from Commercial Information Pollution
Jan Hauser
Principal Architect at Sun Microsystems
  Sheri Xiaoyi Liao
Founder and President of Global Village of Beijing
one of China's most well known environmental NGO's		  
Short Break  
 

The Viridian Green Movement
 Bruce Sterling
 sci-fi author, cyber-punk progenitor

  
  Vocal Performance and Earth Machine Music
David Rothenberg & Tsering Wangmo with Chera van Burg
  
9:30 - 10:00 pm - Break  
  Dimension 7 Immersive Environment featuring DJ Vajra
D-7 presents images from the Know Yourself Project, a film by ISSO 		 
12:00 midnight - Program Ends

 

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