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Join us on Twitter tonight for more Battlestar Galactica; this time: cyborgs

If you aren’t already following Visions for Tomorrow on Twitter, then hit us up! We’ll be tweeting live from yet another Battlestar Galactica panel with cast members from the show. The topic this time? The science, ethics and philosophy...
POSTED Friday, June 12, 2009

Sci Fi/United Nations Battlestar panel reconvenes June 4th at 7:30 PM PT

Want to chat about the impact of Battlestar Galactica outside of the TV screen? The Sci Fi Channel and the United Nations Department of Public Information partnered up in March to talk about just that, covering topics ranging from...
POSTED Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Watch this space for exciting news from TED 2009

If you know about the TED conference, it won’t surprise you that I’ve been a big fan for a long time. For more than 20 years, the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference has sparked our imaginations with “ideas worth sharing” by...
POSTED Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Visions for a more environmentally-friendly tomorrow

It’s Green Week here at NBC Universal, and How You Can Save The World is always thinking about the environment. That’s because our planet plays a big role in how we are — and should be — shaping the...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Visions Forum, Part Two: Over 20 of our brightest minds sound off about Barack Obama

Right now, I am in Basel, Switzerland, keynoting the Swiss Innovation Forum, so I have witnessed firsthand the European reaction to Obama’s victory. The European response has been ecstatic. People spontaneously organized many election parties to watch the election...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008

Visions Forum, Part One: Over 20 of our brightest minds sound off about Barack Obama

Barack Obama’s election is the single most historic moment I have personally lived through. It’s not just a historic American moment — it seems like most of the planet is cheering at America now. Seeing how much of a...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Introducing "How You Can Save The World"

I write this as I return to our SCI FI offices at 30 Rock in NYC from a getaway vacation in Indonesia. For those of you unfamiliar with Indonesia, it is an archipelago of over 17,000 islands with a...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008