As I wrote in an earlier post, Google is only 13 years old; Facebook is a mere 8 years old; and the iPhone just turned five. Each has impacted the world in some surprising and unexpected ways. From my perspective as a futurist, Google’s “Project Glass” (which offers enhanced augmented reality as well as the [...]
Here's a link to interview I just gave on my latest book, Foresight 2020: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow. Find interviews with Small Business experts on the Small Business Advocate show
Fellow futurist Jason Silva has a short, provocative video on the singularity. If you have 4.5 minutes it's well-worth the time.
The accelerating pace of change is often difficult for the average person to comprehend. As a futurist, business forecaster and frequent conference speaker, I have often use recent history to remind people of how much we've lived through in the past few years. For example, Google is only 13 years-old--a mere teenager. Facebook is just [...]
This might seem like a trivial thing but I'd like to suggest otherwise: Researchers in Japan have developed a robot that beats a person in the game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" 100 percent of the time. 100 percent! The robot does this by using technology to recognize its competitors gesture a single millisecond after the [...]
"It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind." "We should question all the rules--we should break all the rules." "I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position." These three wonderful quotes (found in this article: What's Next for Silicon Valley) come from Sebastian Thurn, the iconoclastic thinker and doer behind [...]
In 1978, Congress was convinced the United States was running out of natural gas so it passed the Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Use Act (FUA). A decade later the law was overturned as vast new sources of natural gas were found. In 2003, the National Petroleum Council estimated North America might have 1.1 trillion [...]
Recently, I had a client who requested I come to help their organization think about the "deep future." After disabusing them of the wisdom of thinking about the "deep future" (looking out just a few years is hard enough), I responded that I could still help them meet their goals but I needed to do [...]
Over the past few months, I have delivered keynote addresses (on the topic of emerging trends) to a number of utility-related organizations across the country. In addition to covering technological advances in advanced batteries, fuel cell and solar technology, I explain how new business models are also fueling the trend toward decentralized, distributed energy. On [...]
The state of Nevada has issued its first driver's license for a self-driven robotic vehicle to Google. The license plate is red and has a distinctive "infinity" symbol. It'll take some time but the plates will start becoming more common.
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