Did you know the cartoon series The Jetson’s was originally released in September of 1963? Also, the program wasn’t a commercial success and only 26 episodes were ever produced. The program’s relative failure may, perhaps, surprise you—especially if, like me, you grew up watching countless re-runs of the program. The reason the program didn’t meet [...]
Over the coming months, I'm scheduled to deliver a series of 12 keynote presentations across the United States for Verizon Wireless on "How the Internet of Things Will Transform Business." I have written a little about the "Internet of Things" here but it'd be presumptuous for me or anyone to claim that they will know [...]
Last year, Simon Anderson, one of my favorite futurists--and a reverse mentor of sorts—said something that really resonated with me. He said, “2013 is the year the future arrived.” In a literal sense, the future will always be, well, in the future; but let me provide you a glimpse into what Simon was driving at: [...]
What will the coming decade look like? The honest answer is that no one knows. A glimpse, though, can be found in a promising new start-up, Oculus Rift. Eighteen months ago, Palmer Luckey was a teenager with a clever idea for a new business. Foregoing the traditional path of securing a bank loan, Luckey instead [...]
Yesterday, I delivered the opening keynote presentation at the American Technical Education Association's 51st annual meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota. The title of my talk was "The Ten Trends Transforming the Technical Education of Tomorrow." To demonstrate how fast the world of technical (and higher) education is changing I explained how Oculus Rift--a promising virtual [...]
A common and popular vision of the Internet of Things—which I loosely define as the connection of billions of physical objects to the Internet through the use of low-cost sensors—is the example of an alarm clock smart enough to read your daily schedule, review the latest traffic and weather reports and then communicate this information [...]
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As a futurist, I am frequently asked, "What will the future look like?" My response, in two words, is: predictably unpredictable. This then begs the question: How does a person prepare for such a paradoxical future? The answer lies in embracing other paradoxes such as learning to unlearn, thinking about the unthinkable, embracing failure as [...]
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