What will the coming decade look like? The honest answer is that no one knows. A glimpse, though, can be found in a promising new start-up, Oculus Rift. Eighteen months ago, Palmer Luckey was a teenager with a clever idea for a new business. Foregoing the traditional path of securing a bank loan, Luckey instead [...]
As a futurist, I am frequently asked, "What will the future look like?" My response, in two words, is: predictably unpredictable. This then begs the question: How does a person prepare for such a paradoxical future? The answer lies in embracing other paradoxes such as learning to unlearn, thinking about the unthinkable, embracing failure as [...]
"How do you define wisdom," asked the boy. "It is like harnessing the wind," replied the old man. "What do mean?" "The wind can extinguish a candle or fuel a fire." "So it's all about applying things in the right dose," said the boy. "Oh, it's far more subtle that," continued the old man. "It's [...]
This past September, I delivered a keynote on the future of higher education at the European Association of International Educators 2013 Summit in Istanbul, Turkey. Below is a 15-minute video excerpt of my talk. (The video doesn't show my audio visual aids but the themes I discuss are quite clear.)
Take a look at this old Viceroy cigarette advertisement. The tagline is "The man who thinks for himself ...". The irony, of course, is that marketing executives at Viceroy were telling the "thinking man" how to think. Now, I'm not so presumptuous as to tell you how to think, but it is my opinion that [...]
As part of a series on the potential of apps to transform the future of health care, I was recently interviewed by CNBC. The segment below is now running on CNBC's Asia and Europe version of "Squawk Box."
In one of those rare “small world” moments, I bumped into an old fraternity brother in the airport in Florence, Italy while on vacation this summer. He is now an ophthalmologist and he knew I was a futurist, and during the course of our conversation, he said to me, tongue-in-cheek, “Oh, I can tell you [...]
NASA recently demonstrated that a 3D printed injector could withstand high heat and 20,000 pounds of thrust. This is yet another sign that 3D manufacturing is poised to blast-off in the near future. Interested in other post on 3D manufacturing from futurist Jack Uldrich? Checkout the entire chapter on 3D manufacturing from his latest book, [...]
In addition to being a powerful teaching tool, Google Glass allows surgeons to pull up old x-rays and patient records during surgery as well as consult live with other specialists during the operation. This two-minute video from a recent operation performed at Ohio State University is impressive--and instructive about where the future is headed:
Elmore Leonard, the famous crime novelist, died yesterday. In 2001, he wrote an article on writing, Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle, offering ten tips on good writing. Rule #10 was my favorite: "Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip." Sounds simple, right? It isn't. It actually requires [...]
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