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CSS Presidents Talk and December Meeting
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Cities, and a World, at Risk
Bob Raynolds, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
at the DMNS Gates Planetarium
6:30-7:00 PM – Social
7:00-9:00 PM Talk and discussion
Enter Museum via the staff/security door left of the main entrance; security guards will direct you to walk to the Planetarium via the Space Odyssey exhibit
Bob will use the planetarium dome to review the time line of humanity. We will use immersive global satellite imagery to take you on a trip starting at the Rift Valley in East Africa and investigating the saga of our evolution in Africa and subsequent spread across the globe. Our ancestors wandered widely, ending up concentrated along rivers. Major civilizations developed along the Nile, the Tigris, and the Indus rivers. Our progress was marked by a series of key game-changing innovations: language, tools, fire, agriculture, writing, cities, and even… Wikipedia!. After a review of whence we came, we will focus on some challenges facing our civilization today.
At the Denver Museum of Nature & Science I have collaborated for the past few years with Space Science Curator Dr. KaChun Yu. We have presented a broad series of talks in the Gates Planetarium using the immersive capacity of the dome to offer global stories in a compelling setting. Topics have included, mountains, rivers, islands, and volcanoes, Vikings, The Silk Route, The Dead Sea Scrolls and Syrah Wine.
In December at my President’s talk, we will use immersive global satellite imagery to take you on a trip starting at the Rift Valley in East Africa and investigating the saga of our evolution in Africa and subsequent spread across the globe. Our ancestors wandered widely, ending up concentrated along rivers. Major civilizations developed along the Nile, the Tigris, and the Indus rivers. Our progress was marked by significant steps: language, tools, fire, agriculture, writing, and cities.
Today we are once again concentrating, now along the energy rivers and in urban nodes where we have spawned the first generation of digital natives. We have taken a major step forward with the invention of the internet and such tools as Wikipedia. The digital natives will use these new tools to solve new challenges and build a viable future for us all. They must succeed.
Bob Raynolds, CSS President
