Just back from my second Brussels Girl Geek Dinner, this time at Lamot in Mechelen where we got the opportunity to have a visit to the Expo 58 exposition. It was really worth it!
But my top moment was the session on Paleo Future (what the ?). Paleo Future, according to Matt Novak who seems to have invented it, is "a look into the future that never was". Humm you might think, well actually it's a very interesting topic. It's the analysis on how people looked at the future, in the past. And mostly how they were wrong about it.
The session itself was not presented by Matt Novak, however he did actively help in putting it together with Peter Van Wijnaerde. Peter presented a session specially for the girls as he collected material treating the views people had on the future in regards to women. With that I learned that in the beginning of the 20th century they thought that women would be very powerfull, run for president, be very strong (as in big and not so girly) by the year 2000. But by the 50's the image of women in the future was back to staying at home, taking care of the kids, being a housewife. How lucky a lot has changed in the real future that is now.
Thanks Peter & Matt for the very interesting session, next time take a full hour :-)
To finish off some networking, and of course a nice goodie bag. Clo & her team always succeed in getting us nice stuff! This time we had Jacques chocolates for a fondue and some fun stuff.
See you next time.