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“Future of Humanity: Seminar 1”
Convened April 11–14, 1999 | Semiahmoo Resort, Blaine, Washington
Summary
 The 23 participants in the first Humanity 3000 seminar were nominated by the Humanity 3000 Organizing Committee as representative of some of the best thinkers on the planet. They included scientists, philosophers, humanists, historians, technologists, and futurists selected for their ability to engage in discussions on the long-term future. This seminar – and all subsequent Humanity 3000 seminars and symposia – was designed to be multidisciplinary as a means of establishing a forum for deep conversations on the long-term future that would reflect a wide variety of perspectives.
 As part of the seminar design, participants were asked to select the three most critical issues for the long-term future of humanity. The three questions ultimately determined by Seminar 1 were: (1) What do we mean by conscious evolution? (2) What will be the relationship between human evolution and the global environment? (3) How do we create a global ethical system?
Proceedings (9.8
MB PDF) of this
seminar, including transcripts of all dialogic sessions, available
for download. Featured is an interview of Jerome
C. Glenn and Francis
Heylighen conducted by Sesh Velamoor, Deputy Director, Programs,
Foundation For the Future.
Keynote Presentation
 “Darwinism, Catastrophism, and New Hominid Discoveries”
Dr. Phillip V. Tobias
University of Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Participants
 Walter Truett Anderson
Author
Meridian International Institute
San Francisco, CA USA
 William H. Calvin
Author and Neurobiologist
University of Washington
Seattle, WA USA
 George Cowan
Founder
Sante Fe Institute
Sante Fe, NM USA
 James Dator
Professor, Dept. of Political Science
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI USA
 Terrence Deacon
Professor, Dept. of Biological Anthropology
Boston University
Boston, MA USA
 Steven J. Dick
Historian of Science
US Naval Observatory
Washington, DC USA
 Howard F. Didsbury
Special Projects Director
World Future Society
Bethesda, MD USA
 Clive Gamble
Professor, Dept. of Archaeology
University of Southampton
Southampton UK
 Ashok Gangadean
Founder-Director
Global Dialogue Institute
Haverford, PA USA
 Jerome C. Glenn
Executive Director
AC/UNU/Millennium Project
Washington, DC USA
 Francis Heylighen
Associate Director, Leo Apostel Centre
Free University of Brussels
Brussels, Belgium
 Barbara Marx Hubbard
President
Foundation for Conscious Evolution
Santa Barbara, CA USA
 Seymour Itzkoff
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Sociology
Smith College
Northampton, MA USA
 William W. Kellogg
Sr. Research Assoc.
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, CO USA
 Yersu Kim
Director, Division of Philosophy and Ethics
UNESCO
Paris, France
 Dietrich Koelle
Executive Director
TransCost Systems
Ottobrunn, Germany
 Meng-Kin Lim
Associate Professor
National University of Singapore
Singapore
 Rosaleen Love
Honorary Research Associate
Monash University
Victoria, Australia
 Frederik Pohl
Writer
Palatine, IL USA
Phillip V. Tobias
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Anatomical Sciences
University of Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
 Allen Tough
Professor Emeritus, Graduate Dept. of Education
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
 Spencer Wells
Research Fellow
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
 Paul J. Werbos
Program Director
National Science Foundation
Arlington, VA USA
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