{"id":568,"date":"2012-08-22T19:21:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T18:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/?p=568"},"modified":"2013-01-30T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T14:12:00","slug":"an-optimists-tour-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/2012\/08\/22\/an-optimists-tour-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"An Optimist&#8217;s Tour Of The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\nMark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us and thinks it could have a lot going for it. Based on his first book, he will take us on An Optimist&#8217;s Tour of the Future.<\/p>\n<p>Mark combines two careers &#8211; one as a successful writer\/comedian (writing for stage, radio and print) and another as an expert in future narratives, institutional innovation, engineered serendipity and learning &#8211; working with everyone from schoolchildren to the boards of multinational corporations. He is co-founder of Lea(r)n into the Curve, a fellow of the RSA, Nibmaster General at the Ministry of Stories, special advisor to the Virgin Earth Challenge and founder of the League of Pragmatic Optimists.<\/td>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/optimist.png\" alt=\"An Optimists Tour Of The Future\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Wednesday 22nd August 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 7pm, for a 7.30pm start<br \/>\n<strong>Place:<\/strong> Upstairs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelamblondon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lamb<\/a>, 92 Lambs Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ [<a href=\"http:\/\/local.google.co.uk\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=WC1N+3LZ&amp;sll=53.800651%2c-4.064941&amp;sspn=14.56721%2c27.246094&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=London+WC1N+3LZ%2c+United+Kingdom&amp;ll=51.523484%2c-0.123768&amp;spn=0.007476%2c0.021479&amp;t=h&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">gmap<\/a>]<br \/>\n<strong>Cost:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us and thinks it could have a lot going for it. Based on his first book, he will take us on An Optimist&#8217;s Tour of the Future. Mark combines two careers &#8211; one as a successful writer\/comedian (writing for stage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":1345676340,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past","category-scibar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}