Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

From The Time Machine to Children of Men, our best storytellers have been fixated on dystopian visions of the future, but the twenty-first century has turned out to be full of surprises. Mundane electronic devices are helping to overthrow despots, and video chats are no longer the realm of science fiction, making us wonder, “What’s next?” Camera contact lenses? Cell phone voting at election time? Hyperhumanity through regular upgrades? What will be the new Future Normal? Moderated by Joshua Topolsky (The Verge, The Washington Post) and featuring Edward James Olmos (Filly Brown, Battlestar Galactica), Rachel Grady (DETROPIA), Musa Syeed (Valley of Saints), Paul Yarin (Director of Hardware Engineering at Oblong Industries) and Bill Buxton (principal researcher at Microsoft Research).