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WA Active Ageing Conference

What’s New in Ageing

22nd June 2012 Fremantle Western Australia

Does Ageing

Have a

Future ?

Annimac / Anni Macbeth

Futurist

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National Geographic July 2011

2006 Japan

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Exponential speed of change

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And if we don’t change now …

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Unpredictable climate changes

earthquakes

tsunamis

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Positive proof of global warming

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Accelerating Sea level rise mm Australia 1990 - 2008

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Mandurah 2009 Plus 1.1 metres

Bunbury 2009 Plus 1.1 metres

Rising sea levels

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Future Solution ? For rising sea levels & loss of productive land

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Population vs Resources

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Resource consumption increasing

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Queue for petrol - California

Peak Oil

Grounded – no fuel

Transport costs soar

No petroleum products

Furniture textiles computers iphones pharmaceuticals shoes pens .....

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Global Financial Crisis : Shifting Economic Power

INCREASING POWER

DECLINING POWER

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Technology & human values

D Suzuki

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Ambient intelligent home : sensors collect info about the environment & the residents.

D J Cook Science 2012

Published by AAAS

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Techno medical advancements

Thinking = movement

android

Bionic eye

Artificial joint

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medical nanobots

Nanobots : nano robots

Too tiny to be seen by human eye

artwork

medical nanobots

molecular atomic subatomicNanobots & nanoparticles

diagnose

remove

repair

enhance

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Techno Retail

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Communicating now :

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Social Media : global Village Well

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Social Media :• interactive• user generated content• immediate • mass access• easy to use

Definition Social Media : online & mobile tools enabling easy communication via internet to share info & resources

Social networking tools

Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media Andreas M. Kaplan, Michael Haenlein 2010

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Social Media : Facebook Oz biz stats 2012

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Power & Speed of Social Media

Dave Carroll vs United Airlines

protest song on YouTube :

- 150 000 hits in 1 day

- 500 000 hits in 3 days - 5 million hits in 4 wkswww.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=5YGc4zOqozo

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Generational Divide

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Younger means faster

I’m never having kids. I hear they take nine months to download.

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9 yo Susie is living in 4 or 5 worlds

simultaneously

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• Only one world has no limits or boundaries

• Only one world never separates play & work

• Only one world has no isms

racism ageism sexism ethnicism tribalism

Why people prefer the Virtual World

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Does ageing have a future … oh Yes !

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