The activities of the second day of the Dubai Future Forum 2024 witnessed; The largest global gathering of experts and designers of the future and its international institutions from about 100 countries, at the “Museum of the Future,” lively main sessions focused on how to preserve the future of future generations, and discussed the opportunities of the future in outer space, in addition to the role of future experiences as reference tests that contribute to the design of the desired future societies.
A major dialogue session on the second day of the Dubai Future Forum 2024, in which more than 150 speakers from the UAE and the world participated, in the presence of more than 2,500 specialists in vital future sectors and 100 international institutions and organizations specialized in the future, discussed how experiences of living in the future can To change the present.
Participating in the session were Liam Yeung, film director and architectural designer, Honor Harger, Director of the Arts and Science Museum in Singapore, and Brendan McGetrick, Creative Director at the Museum of the Future in Dubai.
Liam Young said that humans have an urgent and urgent need to anticipate the future, pointing out that cinematic stories and imagined narratives about the future contribute to exploring its promising horizons for human societies. Imagination increases future forecasters and designers and helps envision the reality that humans aspire to in the coming years and decades.
He added that imagining the future is exaggerated. Such as building a major city that includes the planet’s population, or constructing the largest solar energy collection station that supplies the Earth with its electricity needs, or designing the largest algae and seaweed farm in the world to ensure food security for humanity, contributes to creating future solutions and inspires qualitative human innovations.
Honor Harger, in turn, considered that the future must be created, not waited for, stressing that its institutions are the cradle of transformative innovations. She said: “We want to build a world in institutions such as digital museums of the future using technologies such as augmented reality and artificial intelligence that enable people to experience time in a capsule that compresses the past, present and future.” The planet in intense periods of time to inspire those who experience it and make them partners in designing the future they aspire to.”
She added that the exhibitions of the future of the environment, the planet and sustainability motivate the public to adopt practices that are more environmentally friendly and to preserve the planet’s resources for future generations, noting that presenting future experiences using technologies, information, arts and sciences is presented in an interactive format that brings its central issues closer to the audience.
The second day also witnessed a pivotal discussion session entitled “The Future of Humanity Beyond the Borders of the Earth” with the participation of His Excellency Omran Sharaf, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Science and Advanced Technology in the UAE, and Michael Madsen, international film producer.
His Excellency Omran Sharaf stressed that the strategic goal of human progress in space and universe exploration missions, past, present and future, is to preserve life on planet Earth, preserve its natural resources, achieve water, food and energy security in it, and improve the quality of human life and humanity as a whole.
Sharaf said: “Space missions enhance economic and social development efforts,” noting that some countries’ investment in space has achieved a return of $7.7 for every dollar spent. He called for the governance of the global system for space exploration and related activities to ensure the success of the goals of future space missions and achieving the goals of future space missions. Opportunities for future generations.
In turn, film producer Michael Madsen said that the epic work “One Thousand and One Nights” was based on the concept of linking the continuity of human life to the continuation of the narrative and the story that imagines, innovates and creates, pointing out that imagination is what enables humanity with the vision of expanding the scope of human life to new horizons in outer space. .
Bo Victor Newland, Director of the Global Office of Research and Foresight at UNICEF Innocenti, affiliated with the United Nations Children’s Fund, launched from the Dubai Future Forum 2024 platform the “State of Children around the World 2024” report, which shed light on the current conditions that currently and in the future affect children. Opportunities and prospects available to children and tomorrow’s generations in different parts of the world.
The report presented the most prominent demographic shifts, economic and social conditions, and climate changes that profoundly affect the future of children in the present, and stressed that health crises, diseases, and viruses threaten the future of children, also calling for equal opportunities in digital transformation, bridging the digital gap, and governance of practices and uses of technology to protect children and enable a better future. For children around the world.
The report called for finding solutions to crises of extreme poverty that affect children’s opportunities, and challenged the need to double the pace of teacher training and increase the number of schools to empower children cognitively.
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