Braden Allenby, Ph.D.
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May 4 at 11AM: You Want the Future? You Can't Handle the Future!Presented by Braden Allenby, Ph.D.
Contact: Braden.Allenby@asu.edu Location: Birt's Bistro: 16752 N Greasewood St, Surprise, AZ 85378 Emerging technologies have long reflected a dialog with science fiction: today’s military exoskeletons are drawn from the pages of Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, a debt that some companies directly admit. But with accelerating evolution across the entire frontier of technology, science fiction has gone from an occasional source of inspiration to one of the few ways in which people and institutions can prepare for a future that is remarkably like the first chapter in a science fiction novel. Only in this case, it’s too real for comfort. For example, The Matrix told you to choose between the red pill, representing reality, and the blue pill, representing illusion. In today’s world, people are making that choice every day – and most of us choose the blue pill.
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Braden R. Allenby is President’s Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, and of Law; Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics; Senior Sustainability Scientist; Founding Director of the Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management; and co-chair of the Weaponized Narrative Initiative of the Center for the Future of War, at Arizona State University. He moved to ASU from his previous position as the Environment, Health and Safety Vice President for AT&T in 2004.
Dr. Allenby received his BA from Yale University, his JD and MA (economics) from the University of Virginia, and his MS and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University. He is past President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology, ex-Chair of the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, and ex-Chair of the IEEE Presidential Sustainability Initiative. He is an AAAS Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, and has been a U. S. Naval Academy Stockdale Fellow (2009-2010), an AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellow (2007-2009), a Templeton Research Fellow (2008-2009), and a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. From 1995 to 1997, he was Director for Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and from 1991 to 1992 he was the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC.
His areas of expertise include emerging technologies, especially in the military and security domains; Design for Environment; industrial ecology; telework and netcentric organizations; and earth systems engineering and management. In 2008 he was selected by the Carnegie Foundation as 2008 Arizona Professor of the Year. His latest books are Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering (co-authored with Tom Graedel in 2009), The Techno-Human Condition (co-authored with Dan Sarewitz in 2011), The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Engineering (2012), The Applied Ethics of Emerging Military and Security Technologies (an edited volume released by Ashgate Press in 2015), Future Conflict and Emerging Technologies (2016), and Weaponized Narrative: The New Battlespace (a collection of essays co-edited with Joel Garreau, released in 2017).
Dr. Allenby received his BA from Yale University, his JD and MA (economics) from the University of Virginia, and his MS and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University. He is past President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology, ex-Chair of the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, and ex-Chair of the IEEE Presidential Sustainability Initiative. He is an AAAS Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, and has been a U. S. Naval Academy Stockdale Fellow (2009-2010), an AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellow (2007-2009), a Templeton Research Fellow (2008-2009), and a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. From 1995 to 1997, he was Director for Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and from 1991 to 1992 he was the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC.
His areas of expertise include emerging technologies, especially in the military and security domains; Design for Environment; industrial ecology; telework and netcentric organizations; and earth systems engineering and management. In 2008 he was selected by the Carnegie Foundation as 2008 Arizona Professor of the Year. His latest books are Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering (co-authored with Tom Graedel in 2009), The Techno-Human Condition (co-authored with Dan Sarewitz in 2011), The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Engineering (2012), The Applied Ethics of Emerging Military and Security Technologies (an edited volume released by Ashgate Press in 2015), Future Conflict and Emerging Technologies (2016), and Weaponized Narrative: The New Battlespace (a collection of essays co-edited with Joel Garreau, released in 2017).
Please note that all presentations will be recorded and you must sign a photo release at the venue to attend. If you like, you can download and sign a photo release in advance.
Funding provided by the City of Surprise Community Outreach Program
Funding provided by the City of Surprise Community Outreach Program