Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” May 31, 2024

[For the first time in years, I attended a conference not as a keynote speaker but as a participant. Yesterday, I was in Ennistymon, Ireland at The Changing Landscapes Conference. The articles I am sharing in this week's newsletter offer compelling evidence for how fast our physical landscape is changing. I encourage all of us [...]

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Jack Uldrich’s “Future Friday 5:” January 12, 2024

  Think Optimistically: Let's start this year off on an optimistic note! I enjoyed this post by Noah Smith on Techno-Optimism in 2024. If you are feeling down about the future -- and I'll be the first to admit that there is no shortage of big issues with which we must be concerned -- there [...]

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Jack Uldrich’s “Friday Future 5:” November 24, 2023

[Editor's note: Because we just celebrated Thanksgiving and because today is a holiday for most people, I will keep this week's newsletter short. I have also taken the liberty of changing my "thinks" to "thanks" this week. Here are five breakthroughs or innovations for which I am grateful.) Thanks #1: I am thankful for all [...]

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Put on Some Rose-Colored Glasses

“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.” – Francis Bacon Question: Estimate the odds of the following two events: A large flood somewhere in America in which more than one thousand people die. An earthquake in California, causing large flooding, in which more than a thousand people die. Did you rate the [...]

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