Presented at
A New HOPE (2022),
July 22, 2022, 8 p.m.
(50 minutes)
It's time for hackers to think bigger and act bigger. We're used to poking at systems and finding the weak spots so they can be patched before things break catastrophically. But what do we do when the system is broken beyond hope of patching? When the magical power of technology that we see and understand so well is co-opted for cheap conjuring tricks for the ends of persuasion and power? When we have a technological infrastructure that supposedly "connects" billions of us to each other, but which, because it struggles to escape the gravity well of these distorting motivations, fails to enable us to effectively support each other even in the face of a global existential threat?
This will be a HOPEful, interactive session where Javair and Geva will take some elements at the edge of today's technology - virtual reality, brain-computer interfaces, AI - and apply the hacker spirit to use them in ways the system never intended, to allow us all to see and act on more forward-moving visions of the future together.
Presenters:
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Geva Patz
**Geva Patz** is a co-founder of The Emergence Project, a public-benefit organization aimed at catalyzing transformative change through technology. Geva's extensive experience in the technology field includes artificial intelligence, virtual reality, networks and Internet, and novel hardware design. Beyond the confines of technology, he is also responsible for a number of works in the areas of film, interactive installations, and pyrotechnic art.
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Javair Ratliff
**Javair Ratliff** is a co-founder of The Emergence Project, a public-benefit organization aimed at catalyzing transformative change through technology. Javair is a 22-year-old technology hacker, particularly interested in using technology to help improve mindfulness and extend our individual creative capabilities. Having done a wide variety of professional work in various fields from messaging, public health, and interactive AR/VR experiences, he has developed a wide sense of the possibilities of technology and the limits of developing it within the current system.
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