FutureSense: Who Will I Become - Living With a Changing Context Experiensualism: the future experience of experiences. In a world of sensory enhancement and augmentation, multiple identities, new notions of the performative, telepresence, total immersion, embodiment, multiple dimensions, cognitive feedback, inter-relational sense clusters, virtual humanity, emotionally intelligent computing and affective social software, HMI, Artificial intelligence and simultaneous multi-sensory connectivity, we are beginning to understand that we are becoming a different kind of human, with the potential for a vast new array of experiences. In fusing the essence of related philosophies, social change, human morphing and emerging technologies, Derek will discuss the types of future experiences that will be available to us, together with how we will participate, our future sensory expectations and how such changes will drive a new context for human-ness. Derek Woodgate is a practicing futurist, author, speaker and innovator, with over 25 years of international business experience, having had positions on the boards of two major corporations and nearly 10 years working with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Derek is currently President and CEO of The Futures Lab, Inc, a futures-based consultancy, which he founded in January 1998, with offices around the globe. The Futures Lab specializes in leveraging future potential, for major corporations and institutions.

1. Future Sense Derek Woodgate PREPARED FOR July, 2008

2. The meaning of experiences 

3. “ For a number of years I've wanted to become an experience designer rather than just a musician …” - Peter Gabriel

4. The meaning of experiences MENTAL SPIRITUAL PHYSICAL Knowledge EMOTIONAL Observation Involvement Exposure

5. The meaning of experiences

10. The Aesthetiscope Mapping the experience

11. The changing human and lifestyles 2

12. “ We live differently and pursue new lifestyles, because we see ourselves as a new kind of person.” - Joel Mokyr

19. Engagement and Interaction 3

20. “ Creating audience interaction is about hooking in to every format of memory we have thought about and then thinking about how we can describe the experience.” - DJ Spooky

24. Sensing Spaces

32. Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the minutiae of ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential characteristics of sound itself, sometimes termed the invisible multi-substance. Then there’s the audiovisual concert from Staalplaat Soundsystem's project Yokomono. Interaction and engagement

35. Interaction and engagement  Interactive architecture & environments  Projections to enhance the space, the screen (micro laser projectors)  AI generated narrative  Visual music as digital data  Ultrasound sensors laser projectors)  AI generated narrative  Visual music as digital data  Ultrasound sensors

37. Digital convergence and ambience 3

43. Amplifying the experience 4

49. The Sense Event “ At a live gig in the future, when we hear a guitar we shouldn’t expect to see a guitar.The Law of Least Effort will be applied to music:Small input, massive output.” - Kodwo Eshun

50. Sense in Action 5

51. Sense in Action

56. Future Consumer Needs - Maslow revisited

57. Future Consumer Needs - Maslow revisited

58. Consumer aspirations and future lifestyle drivers