Sirius XM Host of “The Briefing with Steve Scully” and former White House correspondent, Steve Scully, will moderate this year’s Clarke Conversation on Imagination: Preserving the vibrancy of the human spirit and imagination in a high tech world

Throughout his life, Clarke explored the boundaries by encouraging us to reimagine through a creative lens of life. Today, we are facing a new frontier with great new challenges. AI and medical breakthroughs, new technologies that spawn new enterprises, for example, offer us bold new transformational possibilities, but at the same time create sobering concerns for the future of humans in this emerging world. One of the leading questions of this moment is how we embrace promising ideas and technology without losing the ability to open ourselves up to and move forward with bright new ideas. Wherein will lie the vibrancy of the human spirit and imagination?

We are living through a moment akin in some ways to the industrial revolution more than a century ago. It is similarly critical today to promote new, beneficial ideas, especially those that spring from the young, many of whom are on their way to becoming our decision-makers. From your different vantages what do you foresee as some of our and their challenges, and where might the opportunities emerge in your and other fields? How can we make new ideas more accessible? How can we use this period of questioning to benefit humanity?

Are there ways to challenge today’s decision-makers to actively seek out and support innovative ideas and technologies that have the potential to transform our world for the better? Arthur Clarke warned us that as we become enamored by “screens”, we should remember that data is not information, and information is not vision. How do we foster an environment individually and collaboratively, by which we can ensure that the brightest minds can make a meaningful impact with visions borne of imagination, expertise and commitment to shaping a future that benefits all of humanity?

SIRIUS XM host Steve Scully will engage the three 2025 Clarke Awardees, whose visions and accomplishments advance science and society to seek their thoughts on where we are, where we need to go from here and most importantly, how to get there.