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Crystal balls and Computer Analysis
We
know that the only constant is change, yet most of us cling, almost
frantically, to a life we have known. For many of us change is
something to be feared or resisted, even if the change is for the good.
Any
study of the Future is neither science nor art. It is more a question
of being observant of trends, new ideas, new technologies, and social
pressures.
We have tried to collect sources that take a wider view of human civilization and the changes which it is likely to experience.
Interesting Link: Retrofuture - for those of us who grew up with the Jetsons and Star Trek (Series One).
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This is the blog of Glen Hiemstra, futurist speaker, keynote speaker, futurist consultant, and founder of futurist.com
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The possibility that accelerating scientific developments in information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence might converge into a ?singularity? has been the subject of science and science fiction writing for some time. The idea most simply described is that at some point, perhaps by the year 2030, developments in these fields will reach a point [...]
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Update on previous post: The SpaceX company of Elon Musk launched its Falcon 9 into orbit for the first time today – this is one of the private spacecraft that NASA is counting on for future access to space. After one aborted launch attempt that shut down automatically when telemetry readings were not correct, a [...]
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The SpaceX company of Elon Musk is scheduled to launch its Falcon 9 for the first time today – this is one of the private spacecraft that NASA is counting on for future access to space. Live launch video feed is available right now. Watch if you can…
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If you missed it today, this underwater diving expedition for ABC news by Philippe Cousteau Jr. and Sam Champion is worth watching. I have a foreboding that humans will sacrifice just about anything to acquire the last drops of oil, no matter the risks or the alternatives. I am not sure why we are so [...]
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I just finished a day of consulting with GHD Engineering in Kuala Lumpur (I am doing a long range planning project with them) and we discussed, among many trends, the future of energy. As I flew back and forth I was reading the recent book by James Hansen, Storms of My Grandchildren. In it he [...]
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This week I am in San Diego to attend and provide a closing keynote to the Employee Health Care Conference, a program of the Conference Board and Coopers and Towers Watson. In February we presented the same event in New York. My topic is 21st Century Health Care. While health care reform was up in [...]
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Recently I had the chance to sit down with Kate Vitasek, author of the new book, Vested Outsourcing, with Mike Ledyard and Karl Manrodt. Outsourcing is a controversial but fundamental business activity – as Kate notes Peter Drucker used to say “Do what you do best and outsource the rest,” and the idea of finding [...]
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As we watched the last days of the Olympics the past few days, I zeroed in on television ads sponsored by the American Oil & Gas industry – lots of these ads – and by the American coal industry. Both emphasized, with patriotic overtones, how important they are to creating jobs, and to achieving national [...]
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One of the amusing, and sad, things about discussions of the future of transit in the U.S. is that it is so often discussed in one of two ways, both intended to make it seem rather outlandish. First, it is discussed as something vaguely foreign – sure, they have widespread transit in Europe, but we [...]
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Msnbc.com is a leader in breaking news and original journalism.
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 Next month will see the Myspace TV debut of ?Quarterlife,? a Web series that follows the fictional adventures of twenty-something creatives searching for love, gainful employment and the meaning of life.
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It?s dangerous to rely on the enthusiasms of the blogosphere to determine the longevity of any new Web phenomenon. But social networking may be in a class by itself ? for reasons that go back long even before human memory.
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 St. Paul, Minnesota's best-known contribution to modern media may be Prairie Home Companion ? but its Minnesota Public Radio group is now working on a project with even bigger potential. And this time the star isn?t Garrison Keilor, but the audience itself.
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 Andrew Keen wants to start an argument. And his new book ?The Cult of the Amateur: How Today?s Internet is Killing Our Culture? shows that he knows how to do it.
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When I was growing up, my mother urged me to become a telephone repairman?that way, she said, I?d always have a job. I think she was onto something, but it?s more than just telephones ? it?s all the gadgets that hang onto our increasingly complex home networks.
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 It turns out that videoconferencing reaches a new threshold of reality when the people you?re seeing are nearly life-sized, moving naturally (without that Max Headroom lag-time) and speaking with sound as clear as a CD.
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 How do you find what you want in the midst of this utterly disorganized video bonanza? Clearly, the entrepreneur who comes up with the video equivalent of Google would be in a very powerful position.
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 For U.S. gadget lovers, this week has been pretty much torment. We?ve been watching the enormous 3GSM tradeshow in Barcelona where the latest and greatest mobile phone gadgetry is paraded before the international press.
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 Can we continue to advance technology without needlessly subjecting society to more Chernobyl melt-downs? The query is made more urgent by the fact that, given the new powers of biotechnology, the next miscalculation may prove to be damaging in ways we can?t presently...
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 A decade or two from now, will there be a laptop replacement? Will an even smaller, more mobile device ? perhaps something the size of today?s smartphone ? replace the laptop in the lives of consumers?
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