Did you know that more pedestrians die in crosswalks than when jaywalking. The reason is because people have a false sense of security in crosswalks and are less likely to look both ways. This is a wonderful metaphor for how you should think about the future. I know most people believe there is safety in [...]
Seth Godin has an excellent post entitled We're the Same, We're the Same, We're the Same. In it, he argues that most businesses' ads all look the same. He then goes on to mention that most people's resumes also look the same.I've said if before and I'll say it again, if you want to unlearn [...]
I am not an evolutionary biologist. I do not play one on television and, even though this is the Internet, I won't try to pretend I am one. Nevertheless, I have come to the conclusion that unlearning will be an essential skill in the future because I am of the opinion that human evolution is an [...]
Sir Kenneth Robinson has a new video on TED entitled Bring on the Learning Revolution. (The 16 minute video is below). I highly recommend it if for no other reason than he quotes a quote from Abraham Lincoln which I discussed in this post last year, To Unlearn: Learn to Disenthrall. My only caveat to [...]
Read the following three quotes from Pablo Picasso: "To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules." "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." [...]
Take a look at the familiar tic-tac-toe grid to the right. In how many different ways could you make the journey? It is not common for people to guess 27, 81 or even 243. The answer, however, is 362,800. This is because 9x8x7x6x5x4x3x2x1=362,800. (The actual number of winning or draw games is 255,168. For a [...]
As a professional futurist who has written two books on the topic of nanotechnology, including The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business, but is now interested in how the skill of unlearning can help society better prepare for the future, I couldn’t but help notice this [...]
As a professional futurist who has written two books on the topic of nanotechnology, including The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business, but is now interested in how the skill of unlearning can help society better prepare for the future, I couldn’t but help notice this [...]
Check out this cool video from MIT. If you don’t think that “hand gesture computing” won’t transform work, play and education in the not-too-distance future you’ve got your hand-up-your-a#$.
In political circles we have heard the now common refrain: "He was for it, before he was against it" numerous times. The phrase is often delivered by a political opponent and is meant to portray the recipient as a wishy-washy, flip-flopping, two-timing scumbag. And perhaps this is true, but what happens when someone honestly changes their [...]
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