You are invited to attend:
A FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
Future Versions I
Thursday Evening, 20 May 2004
at the First Parish U. U. Church in Arlington Center
730 Mass. Ave., Arlington, Mass.
Doors open at 7:15 PM.
No one will be admitted after 8:00 PM; Please come early.
As a video recording is being made of this entire event;
all guests will be requested to sign a release when entering.
The lecture will be approximately 45 minutes, followed by a
break and subsequent discussion.
Light refreshments will be served.
For more questions and to RSVP, please contact us via this special e-mail address.
To download a flyer/poster for this event, click here.
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About Future Versions: Future Versions is the name for a series of video programs about visions for the future. The first program in the series is currently in production (Spring 2004) and is planned for completion in the Fall of 2004. This type of program series is the main reason I created Open Eyes Video over 20 years ago, in 1980.
I first conceived of this specific series back in the mid 1990s. At the time I was reflecting on the sense of optimism about the future in society that I remembered from the late 1950s and early 1960s. I compared this attitude to what I was seeing in the late 1990s. That optimism was mostly gone, replaced by a sense of dread expressed by many people.
I could understand why some people would feel this way, but I saw a pattern in events and began to realize that I had a much more positive vision. As I talked to friends and associates of mine, I realized that there were others who had important visions concerning the future and, although they didn't necessarily match mine, their visions were of great interest to me.
I decided to begin production on what I hope to be a multiple program series,
including something about my own vision followed by interviews with others and
perhaps focusing on particular topics, such as political structures, cultural
attitudes, etc.
About the first program: After much thought, I have decided
to begin the first program by giving a public lecture. In this lecture, I will
discuss:
• Why many people find our current times very stressful
• Fundamental shifts in social structures that I believe have already
started and where I think they are headed
• How these shifts will change many aspects of our lives
• Why it is important to work with many of these changes rather than struggle
against them.
I will not be focusing on:
• How much smaller cell phones will get
• When more electric cars will be available
• If the stock market will reach 20,000
• The next fad in modernist furniture (don't worry, I actually like some
modernist furniture)
I will have videographers on hand to record the lecture and the discussion to follow. I plan to edit these video recordings together onto a single DVD which will go on sale from this web site, so please stay tuned!
- Glenn Koenig, President & Owner of Open Eyes Video