Here Come the Robots
Yesterday, I suggested robots will soon do a lot more than fetch robots. In this spirit, I invite you watch this amazing two-minute video of a new ABB robot in action.
What’s Next for Robotics? Fetch Me More Than a Donut!
Check out this picture to the right. We know it’s true because we have all lived through it. It is more difficult to imagine the future because, well, it hasn’t yet happened. I encourage you, however, to watch the video of the TurtleBot below and then ask yourself this question: What will robots look like [...]
It’s Official: We All Need to Unlearn
If you have ever rented a video/DVD just because it has won an obscure award from some international film festival, I think you'll appreciate the image (and the saying) to the right. It's easy to laugh at the truth of the statement but I believe we do the same with people. Did you know, for [...]
A New Twist on an Old Trick
Do you see the world clearly? Watch this video and count the number of discrepancies.
A Futurist’s Perspective on Legal Outsourcing
Next month, I have two keynote presentations on the future of law. I will be speaking to Meritas on May 12 in Montreal and the Legal Symposium of International Franchise Association in Washington, DC on May 16. Among the many topics I will be covering is legal process outsourcing (LPO). In Richard Susskind’s excellent book [...]
Shopping for the Truth
Last week, it was reported that frequent shopping by men and women increases the life expectancy of people in Taiwan. This is undoubtedly great news for shopoholics but before you rush out to the nearest mall in an effort to boost the length of your life know that it is not true. Although the scientific [...]
Questioning Higher Education
"If Harvard were really the best education, if it makes that much of a difference, why not ed-treatment-info.com it so more people can attend?" This excellent question -- which I would categorize under the art of asking a new question -- comes compliments of Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, who believes there is a [...]
Needed: A New Educational Perspective
The other day I suggested there was great value in flipping the classroom. To better understand why it makes sense to allow children to watch lectures at home and do "homework" at school, read the following paragraph which was clipped from this excellent article by Salman Khan -- Turning the Classroom Upside Down -- in Saturday's [...]
Jack Uldrich to Deliver Keynote at MSAE’s Annual Meeting
This June I will be giving a keynote presentation on unlearning at the Midwest Society of Association Executive’s annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Below is a short two-minute YouTube clip I put together at the request of the organization. The title of my keynote is “The Future’s Next Great Challenge: A Steep Unlearning Curve.” Related [...]
The Future’s Next Great Challenge: A Steep Unlearning Curve
This June I will be giving a keynote presentation on unlearning at the Midwest Society of Association Executive's annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Below is a short two-minute YouTube clip I put together at the request of the organization. The title of my keynote is "The Future's Next Great Challenge: A Steep Unlearning Curve." [...]