I spent yesterday, October 26, with Mark Anderson and his Strategic News Service planning team, developing ideas for his next major conference, Future In Review 2007. This will be the Fifth Anniversery of this exciting event. It pulls together several hundred technology industry leaders to examine the future challenges and opportunities near and […]

Today was the big day. The U.S. population hit 300 million people. In fact, as I write this near midnight Eastern time, the population clock now reads 300,005,079. This is up from 100 million in 2015, and 200 million in 1967. The Census Bureau projects that the nation will hit 400 […]

A headline article in the Seattle Times today suggested that cloned food is near FDA-approval. The food is apparently testing safe, and astonishly similar to non-cloned food. Which isn’t exactly surprising if you understand the science behind cloning. It probably won’t hurt us in any way to eat cloned food, and it […]

According to a new study published by the Global Development and Environment Institute of Tufts University (PDF), waiting to act on global warming will cost trillions by the end of century. In fact, according to their analysis, even leaving out such catastrophic possibilities as a shut down of the Gulf Stream, or accounting for species […]

Today was a great day for creating preferred futures. Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh was awarded the annual Nobel Peace Prize, for his pioneering of the concept of micro-loans. Yunus, now age 66, established the Bank in 1976, to lend small amounts of seed money to the poorest women in […]

Please see my new Futurist.com article Heroes of the Future. Like my recent article on the future of cities, the genesis of this article was a panel at the World Science Fiction convention in Los Angeles this summer. It’s a tough and interesting subject, and I’m hoping to hear comments and other […]

When the view on Earth is just too depressing, it can be good to leave the planet for while, and contemplate the Universe from space.
Two great recent views are these. First, Earth as seen from Saturn, taken by the Cassini spacecraft and displayed at Astronomy Image of the Day. Click on the thumnail […]

Glen Hiemstra discusses his book Turning the Future Into Revenue, and being a futurist, in this 32-minute podcast. Interview conducted by Lisa Haneberg, host of Management Craft. Also available as a downloadable MP3.

Be sure to watch or set your Tivo to see Futurist.com colleage and guest writer David Brin in the premier of “The ArchiTechs.” In the premier, this unique program sets five geniuses in a 48-hour quest to design a better way to escape and fight skyscraper fires. David gets to join in the […]

See my new article in titled Cities and The Future to explore these questions:

Will people really prefer to keep living in cities?
How will so many people in one economy affect the politics and economics of the future?
What needs to change in infrastructure and design for places that are already so crowded to grow? […]