The Future Has Officially Arrived: Drone Delivered Beer

With summer just around the corner many of us will quench our thirst on hot days with an ice-cold beer. Now, thanks to some creative and innovative entrepreneurs in South Africa, you may soon be able to have that ice-cold beer delivered to you via a miniature drone. (See the 45-second video below). While obviously [...]

By |2013-05-31T14:41:26-05:00May 31, 2013|Agriculture, Future|Comments Off on The Future Has Officially Arrived: Drone Delivered Beer

Beware of the Invisible Gun of the Near Future

Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed delivered a real "shot heard around the world" last week when he demonstrated an operational 3D printed gun. As profound as this event is, the future is about to become even stranger--and more frightening. This is because researchers at Duke University have just created a simple invisibility cloak using a [...]

By |2013-05-16T16:01:59-05:00May 16, 2013|Future|Comments Off on Beware of the Invisible Gun of the Near Future

Warhol Was Wrong. Wanted: Worldly Wisdom

Warhol was wrong. In the future, everyone won't be famous for 15 minutes. If we are lucky, we'll be anonymous for 15 minutes. As Juan Enriquez shares in an insightful and provocative 6-minute TED talk (posted below) all of us are being plastered with "electronic tattoos" as our Facebook posts, Tweets and even our physical [...]

By |2013-05-03T19:29:08-05:00May 3, 2013|Future|Comments Off on Warhol Was Wrong. Wanted: Worldly Wisdom

Tomorrow's Technology Today

Yesterday, I delivered the closing keynote presentation at Optus Vision2013 in Sydney, Australia. The title of my talk was "Tomorrow's Technology Today." As I recently said, tomorrow is rapidly catching up with today but to further appreciate just how quickly mobile, social, and cloud technologies are converging with "Big Data" and the "Internet of Things" [...]

By |2013-05-02T20:59:11-05:00May 2, 2013|Future|Comments Off on Tomorrow's Technology Today

Today is Catching Up to Tomorrow

As a futurist, I spend a surprisingly large amount of time simply helping my clients and audiences see what is already here today. To put this in a contemporary context consider the photo to the right of Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.), the "brash but brilliant" main character in the upcoming sci-fi thriller Iron Man [...]

By |2013-04-24T15:18:14-05:00April 24, 2013|Future|Comments Off on Today is Catching Up to Tomorrow

Five Foreseeable Future Risks

The future may be unknowable. This does not, however, imply it can’t be prepared for. Below are just five future risks I have—and will—address in various keynote presentations to the insurance industry in the coming months. 1. Economic instability: Foxconn, the large Chinese electronic manufacturer, recently announced a hiring freeze. Eventually, this “freeze” will turn [...]

By |2013-03-04T20:26:12-06:00March 4, 2013|Future|Comments Off on Five Foreseeable Future Risks

The Art Classroom of the Future

As a parent, I believe we must constantly encourage our children to nurture and expand the creativity with which they are all inherently endowed. Unfortunately, as Ken Robinson explains in this brilliant TED talk, many schools are unintentionally yet, nevertheless, ruthlessly and systematically killing our children's creativity. Luckily, creative adults are coming to the rescue. [...]

By |2013-02-25T15:50:59-06:00February 25, 2013|Creativity, Future|Comments Off on The Art Classroom of the Future

James, Take Me to the Future!

Wouldn't it be cool if you had your very own chauffeur? Sounds unlikely, right? Well, don't be so sure. As I've written before (here and here), the future may be more affordable than you suspect. Scientists at Oxford University have recently developed a system which can be fitted onto your existing automobile and will convert [...]

By |2013-02-21T22:14:31-06:00February 21, 2013|Future|Comments Off on James, Take Me to the Future!
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