Session 11. Possible futures: humans beyond the anthropocene

With the new century, humanity began a new era that combines highly promising scientific avenues with growing uncertainties regarding our capacity for survival as a society. Bioengineering and artificial intelligence can change our relationship with disease (including ageing) and even help to preserve biodiversity and fight against climate change and the other negative effects of the Anthropocene. Can we develop a society that enjoys new opportunities for individual and global health? Is it possible to preserve biodiversity in a world that needs more and more resources to support a humanity that is still growing? The challenge of reaching this goal requires not only the resources to make it happen. It is necessary to inform society, introduce critical knowledge into the world of education, develop policies in which science plays a key role, and fight against disinformation.

• Martí Domínguez, essayist and writer, professor of Journalism at the University of València, director of Mètode and author of Mater
• Francis García Collado, professor of Psychology at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the International University of Catalonia
• Ricard Solé, physicist, ICREA research professor, director of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park Complex Systems Laboratory, UPF