Institute For The Future

Biocitizens and New Media Technology Conference Briefing [SR-1133]

The Biocitizens and New Media Technology conference explored the convergence of trends around new media, health, and biocitizenship. After the conference, we launched a new Web site (http://biocitizennewmedia.org)(password required) to demonstrate the participatory nature of new media. The Web site sought to encourage interactive communication with our clients around the potential implications of engaged biocitizens equipped with new media tools. This briefing summarizes some of the key concepts and driving forces related to biocitizenship and new media technology, and explores the five video scenarios we developed to illustrate our forecast of biocitizens’ usage of new media technologies in the coming decade.