Exploring the future: would you like to have a crowd orgasm?

April 28, 2012

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Let’s imagine what it might be like to have a crowd orgasm, because that might be our future…

This afternoon I gave a keynote at TheNextWeb conference in Amsterdam, one of the largest tech conferences in Europe, on the topic of The Future of Crowds.

Since this was a fairly open-minded group of geeks and entrepreneurs, I didn’t hold back on the ideas of where crowds could go. After laying out the landscape of the 10 domains in which crowds will dominate the future, I spoke about collective intelligence, collective consciousness, and going beyond that, the idea of crowd orgasms.

I mentioned FutureofSex.net and talked about some of the things that we cover on this site, including the potential to directly access your partner’s pleasure centers, instead of or in addition to pleasure through physical touch and stimulation.

The first step is to help partners to access and stimulate each others pleasure centers, which will be a fundamental platform for remote sex as well as engaging together in the one room. What is possible beyond that is for crowds to interact and engage to stimulate each other on a massive scale. Perhaps we will find that orgasm between a couple will be the richest and most powerful experience. Or possibly it will turn out that orgasms created by crowds will be on a different scale to those between two.

These technologies are some time off, but we can begin to at least imagine what crowd orgasms might be like.

Flickr credit: Kevin Dooley

Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of the Advanced Human Technologies Group of companies.

Strong demand for Ross’s expertise has seen him deliver keynote speeches and executive workshops in over 30 countries across six continents and consult to leading organizations worldwide such as American Express, Citibank, Coca-Cola, Dubai Ministry of Finance, EY, Gartner, Google, Macquarie Bank, News Limited, Procter & Gamble, PwC, Star Alliance, Visa and many other leading organizations.

He is author of four books including the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, now out in its second edition, and the acclaimed book Living Networks, which The New York Times credits with predicting the social networking revolution.

Ross’s frequent media appearances include CNN, Bloomberg TV, SkyNews, European Business Network, Channel News Asia, ABC TV, Today and Sunrise shows, New York Times, The Guardian and many others. Ross has been named as one of the most influential people in the world on topics including the future of work, fintech, crowdfunding, and Enterprise 2.0.

Ross has run executive education programs and lectured at numerous academic institutions around the world, including the University of Virginia, Australian Graduate School of Management, Singapore Institute of Management, Institute of Banking and Finance, Institute of Company Directors Malaysia and Singularity University in Silicon Valley, and is faculty for the innovation programs of Australian Institute of Company Directors.

He has a B.Sc(Hons) in Physics from Bristol University, Graduate Certificate in Applied Finance from Macquarie University, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Previously Ross worked in senior positions in London, Tokyo and Sydney with organizations including Merrill Lynch, NCR and most recently Thomson Financial as Global Director – Capital Markets. He has extensive international business experience and speaks five languages.

Ross is the founder and publisher of FutureofSex.net and is a globally recognized authority on the future of sex, extensively quoted in the media on the topic.