"There is nothing permanent except change." --Hereclitus The pace of change is only accelerating yet, surprisingly, we don't often see it--even when it is staring us in the face. To wit, yesterday, WellPoint announced it was going to "hire" Watson (IBM's supercomputer) to help its doctors make better and faster medical diagnosis. One page later [...]
"This is the futurist's dilemma: Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. Either way, a futurist can't win. He is either dismissed or wrong." So writes Kevin Kelly is this thoughtful piece. As a professional futurist, it's a dilemma I struggle with on a daily basis as I help my [...]
In my new book, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future, Lesson #1 is entitled "Unlearn or Die." In the short chapter, I recount the story of how it took the British Navy 247 years from the time it discovered citrus fruit prevented scurvy to the time it actually implemented an official [...]
"[We're] operating with a scale of data that is way beyond what was possible even three years ago," say Sam Madden, an MIT professor in this article discussing how continued advances in GPS and mobile technology are now able to deliver customized driving directions. The technology is so sophisticated that it will deliver different routes to the [...]
I recently delivered a keynote presentation to Care Providers of Minnesota--an association of aging services facilities. During my talk, I showed a snippet from this video of a parapalegic woman using a new robotic exoskeleton to walk. I suggested that in the not-to-distant future a number of people would altogether forego wheelchairs. The [...]
The first chapter of my new book, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future, is entitled "Unlearn or Die." To better appreciate why unlearning will be such a critical skill in the future, I'd like to share this paragraph from Josh Linkner's outstanding article, Vu Deja: Tricking Yourself Into Looking At Problems [...]
Futurist and Keynote Speaker Jack Uldrich "Fantastic, inspiring, relevant, provocative, informative, insightful, entertaining, professional, compelling … and a dozen more adjectives that I have heard used to describe the keynote and workshop you delivered at our Summit.” Rene Shepherd, The Vision Council “He helps you look at yourself, your life, and your business [...]
Aug. 24: Life Science Alley (Minneapolis, MN) Aug. 25: Care Providers of Minnesota (St. Cloud, MN) Aug. 31: Iowa Healthcare Collaborative (Des Moines, IA) Sep. 7: Savannah Ocean Exchange (Savannah, GA) Sep. 13: Farm Credit Corporation (Newport, RI) Sep. 17: New York Healthcare Association (Saratoga, NY) Sep. 19: TEDx 1,000Lakes (Grand Rapids, MN) [...]
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