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Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2, UC San Diego/Irvine (HQ: Qualcomm Institute), UCSD:
“People who come to FiRe are all superstars in their world, but because they’re out of their normal comfort zone they run into other people and they fuse across these boundaries. That allows them to be more than they can be by themselves – and that, for most people, is a deep human emotional need.”
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Andrew Wallis OBE, CEO of Unseen
“It’s a great mix of old and new friends, new ideas, future forecasting and a brain work out.”
Focus Channels
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Computing & Communications
Computing & Communications
FiRe looks at the future of everything in these core target areas of interest, from chip designs to high-performance computing, from cloud structure to wireless and software.
- World Interrupted: The Cyber Infrastructure Threat
- AI in the Cloud
- What Is AI Telling Us? The Future of Work for Humans and Machines
- The Eye-Brain Machine: Computing’s Next Model?
More Computing & Communications
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Economics & Finance
Economics & Finance
SNS has redefined global economics theory through an IP-centric view, with strong results in prediction success, from companies to countries. FiRe provides a unique focus on finance subjects, including venture capital and technology funding, with additional attention to global equity markets.
- The Great Race: Business Models and GDP As Opportunity or Threat for Country Leaders
- The Benefits of Replacing Fear with Excitement in Business
- Winner Takes All (of Us): Tech Giants and the Future of Competition
- Investors Redefine Value: Impact on Public Policy and Education Content
More Economics & Finance
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Education
Education
Beginning with its SNS Project Inkwell initiative – the first global vendor consortium on appropriate technology in K-12 education – FiRe takes a deep look into creating the next model for modern education.
- Investors Redefine Value: Impact on Public Policy and Education Content
- The AORTA Manifesto: “A Movement to Revolutionize Teaching and Learning”
- “The New Education X PRIZE”
- “SNS Project Inkwell: New Achievements in 1:1 and Sister Schools Programs”
More Education
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Energy
Energy
Perhaps the first team to unveil the Enron scandal, SNS has a long history of accurate predictions of oil pricing and energy outcomes. FiRe explores related areas, from alternative energy and energy markets to energy’s connection to climate change.
- Planning the Earth’s Energy Sourcing
- Building Elon Musk’s Hyperloop
- “Energy Technology: The Next Wave?”
- “Tesla Motors: The Cars of Tomorrow, Today”
More Energy
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Environment
Environment
FiRe maintains a continuous awareness of the world we depend on for survival, from the oceans to the atmosphere, from how we affect the environment to what technology can contribute to promote global environmental health.
- AI in the Cloud
- Supporting the Carbon Trifecta: Advances in 3D Printing
- Supporting the Carbon Trifecta: Building Elon’s World
- FiReFilms: “Chasing Coral” Q & A
More Environment
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Global Initiatives
Global Initiatives
The FiRe program incorporates ongoing efforts relating to select coordinated SNS initiatives. These initiatives have grown from FiRe conversations into multiple global cooperative efforts to improve the world through the appropriate application of technology, including INVNT/IP, SNS FiReFilms, SNS Project Inkwell, Nutritional Microanalysis, and more.
- The UnDx (Undiagnosed) Initiative
- FiReFilms: Documentaries That Change the World
- FiReFilms: “Chasing Coral” Q & A
- The SNS Carbon Trifecta: Harnessing the Flow of CO2
More Global Initiatives
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Healthcare
Healthcare
The ongoing “fixing healthcare” discussion at FiRe is focused on the question of how to repair a broken business model, generally seeking ways to bring providers and patients back into primary contact. This area also includes new innovations in healthcare solutions, from the Quantified Self to the new SNS field of Nutritional Microanalysis.
- Personal Predictive Medicine
- The UnDx (Undiagnosed) Initiative
- The End of Disease: Solving the Healthcare Crisis
- The UnDx (Undiagnosed) Global Initiative
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Pure Science
Pure Science
FiRe’s Pure Science channel focuses on research by members of the FiRe community into pure science, including physics, climatology, space and ocean exploration, evolutionary theory, ethnology, and more.
- Breakthroughs in Robotics: Taking AI into Space
- Supporting the Carbon Trifecta: Advances in 3D Printing
- Pictorial Processing: Metadata Analysis for the World’s Most Powerful Telescope
- The Eye-Brain Machine: Computing’s Next Model?
More Pure Science
