"Students who demonstrate their mastery will be able to receive a certificate of completion for free." Re-read that last sentence again: "Students who demonstrate their mastery will be able to receive a certificate of completion for free." If you're in the field of higher education it should send a cold chill down your spine because [...]

Late last year, I reported mobile web video conferencing was expected to grow 250-fold by 2015. Not surprisingly, I suggested this would impact how a great many people conducted their work. To this end, the field of tele-psychiatry is now taking off. To understand, consider this statement from a professional using tele-confernecing to consult with [...]

I'm in Chennai, India where I delivered a keynote presentation to a group of emerging leaders within PepsiCo India this morning. After my talk, I had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Michael Yaziji. As part of his presentation, he showed this astounding "futuristic" video from Apple. The video was made in 1987 and, apparently, [...]

Late last year, I released my annual list of predictions for 2012. In Trend #3 on "Augmented Political Reality" I wrote: "a new wave of social media political consultants will monitor live Twitter streams and use the feedback to adjust candidates' teleprompter speeches in real time." To this end, this article (Why Viewers Could Soon [...]

By Jack Uldrich & Rick Smyre On August 5, 1949 Wag Dodge and a team of fire-fighters were air dropped into Mann Gulch in Montana to battle a raging fire. The conditions were hot and dry. As evening approached, the fire changed directions and hot embers flew over the heads of the crew and ignited [...]