As a futurist, I love days like today. First, Virgin Galactic conducted its first solo space flight today suggesting that space tourism will soon be a reality--just as I predicted earlier this year. Next, Google is demonstrating remarkable progress in self-driving automobiles--as I suggested back in 2008. If you don’t believe me, watch the video [...]
In honor of today, October 10, 2010, being 10-10-10, I thought I’d compile 10 “10-related” lists I written over the years: 1. 10 Predictions for the Coming Decade 2. Top Future Predictions for 2010 3. Think 10X, Not 10% 4. 10 “Impractical” Ideas for the Future 5. Highlights from Chapter 10 “Doing the Impossible” 6. [...]
In my 2008 book Jump the Curve I dedicated an entire chapter to what I called “walking the escalator"--or using existing technology to improve an existing process or product. To this end, I invite you to watch this short video on how the existing escalator will soon be improved to save material and energy as [...]
Did you know that in the year after a state mandates its citizens to wear helmets while biking that biking-related deaths for children between the ages of 5 and 15 fall by about 8 death per year. It is a small number but I think most reasonable people would say that it is a positive [...]
It will take some time to arrive but augmented reality is trend worth watching--especially if you’re in the educational, travel or advertising industries:
There is a new kind of eyeglass available which allows the wearer to manually adjust the lens to provide a clear, undistorted vision regardless of whether the person is reading a book or scanning the horizon. The eyeglasses were highlighted in this recent article, but I especially liked this quote which called the technology "a [...]
Today, it has been estimated that nearly 50% of all people don’t take their medication properly. This costs our healthcare system a staggering $290 billion in unnecessary emergency room visits and other avoidable healthcare costs. Luckily, big problems don’t always require big solutions and, to this end, an innovative researcher at MIT has created a [...]
Seth Godin has a wonderful post today entitled Next. In it, he asks people to think of whatever work task they been assigned not as their "next" job but, instead, as their last. (In the sense that it will be the last time they ever do it.) If a person approaches a task from this [...]
For too long, technologists have forced all sorts of technical gadgets upon people. The result is that humans have had to adapt to technology. There is, however, a huge shift going on in the design industry and technology is now becoming more human. To better understand this idea, watch this 4-minute video about the shape-shifting [...]
“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.” –Francis Bacon Question: True or false: Hypnosis is useful in helping witnesses accurately recall the details of crimes? False. Hypnosis helps people recall more information but not more accurate information. Yet, according to a scientific study, sixty-one percent of people still falsely hold this belief [...]
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