Robert Olson, author of Exploring the Future: Seven Strategic Conversations That Could Transform Your Association, and editor of Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow and Mending the Earth, will be speaking at the Camden Public Library on Thursday, September 26, at 7:00 pm, on “Advancing Technology and Images of the Future.” Olson’s presentation is hosted by the Camden Philosophical Society.
Robert Olson is a summer resident of Lincolnville Beach. He formerly served with the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment and is now a senior fellow at the Institute For Alternative Futures, a think tank in the Washington, DC area. Olson was the Institute’s Director of Research for fifteen years, working as a consultant to leaders in a wide range of government agencies, corporations, and non-profit organizations. Much of his recent work has focused on environmental and energy futures, including projects with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to bring greater foresight into the Agency’s planning. He is a member of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Technology and Policy (NACEPT) and the primary author of the NACEPT report The Environmental Future: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities for EPA.
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