Dear Readers: Below is my annual list of top ten books on the future. (Because I believe there is great wisdom in the past, you will note that many of the books were published prior to 2011.) Below, in no particular order, were the books most influential in shaping and changing my thinking this past [...]
We've all heard and suffered through "commercial breaks." Well, the commercial--that annoying staple of modern television--is about to become seriously broken. If you have a DVR you've probably been fast-forwarding through commercials for some time. What happens, however, when Apple introduces its Siri (voice recognition) technology to a next generation television set? (As is widely [...]
This technology isn't real--yet; but Samsung is offering us a possible vision of the future. Related Post Visions of the Future: Past & Present
I'm in Guelph, Ontario today to deliver a keynote on innovation to the Agricultural Adaptation Council. One of the ideas I intend to put on their radar screen is that of perennial crops. Before the invention of agriculture all crops were perennial. With the advent of modern farming, annual crops become the norm. The transition [...]
(Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, 20/20 Foresight: A Futurist Looks Ahead to the Ten Trends That Will Shape the World of 2020, which I am writing with the able assistance of fellow futurist Simon Anderson, host of www.futur1st.com. This chapter takes a look at the future of healthcare.) Jonathan Rothberg, a [...]
Here's a link to a 15-minute presentation I recently delivered to United Healthcare. The title of my talk was "Why the Future of Healthcare Will Require Unlearning."
In my new book, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite lessons for Achieving a Successful Future, I argue that unlearning will be one of the most critical skills of the future. To understand why this is the case just consider the emerging field of data mining and business analytics where IBM's Watson can now sift through the [...]
In honor of today being 11-11-11, here are 11 links to 11 trends which will affect 11 different industries: 1. Higher Education & the Cloud 2. Retail & Mobile Payments 3. Publishing & Mobile Web Video 4. Health Care & Virtual Nurses 5. Agriculture & Genomics 6. Automobiles & Social Networking 7. Manufacturing & 3D [...]
Microsoft has recently put together a compelling six-minute video of what your future may look like. Will the company get everything right? Of course not. After you watch the video, however, watch the video of AT&T's vision of the future from its "You Will" 1993 ads. It didn't get everything right either but the company [...]
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