Kevin Jain
Kevin Jain founded the Harvard College Future Society, a student
organization interested in evaluating the impact of future technologies
on
the human and humanity. He currently serves as president.
In 2010, with
this organization, he hosted and organized the
H+ Summit at Harvard:
Rise of
the Citizen Scientist, with organizational assistance from
Humanity+.
The
summit brought together over 60 speakers to discuss technological trends
and impacts on society, with specific emphasis on
transhumanist
technologies, with topics ranging from artificial intelligence and
neuroscience to aging research and education, whole brain emulation, and
open
source software to robotics and future democracy.
As a student at Harvard University, he is particularly interested in the
effects of accelerating technologies on the human itself, and plans to
graduate with a special concentration drawing from philosophy,
psychology,
neuroscience, and other fields. He is currently working on a textbook
that
challenges the assumptions of modern day education. The textbook would
integrate a discussion of emerging technologies into serious academic
discussion, and necessitate a discussion of its implications on more
traditional fields of studies.
Read his
LinkedIn profile.