Introduction: Why the experiment?
As a futurist and a CIO, I’m expected to stay up to date on new technologies. I’ve attended talks on the digital divides (there’s one between the rich and poor, but another one entirely between the young and the old). I realized I was giving speeches that referenced the [...]

A few years ago when I was invited to speak to a Microsoft customer event, one of the speakers was from Microsoft Research. He previewed a number of research initiatives. In doing so he had fun with a slide in which he listed major Star Trek technologies and then suggested their corollaries in [...]