Archive for August, 2008

Enjoy Labor Day

Have a nice Labor Day holiday. Glen Hiemstra is a futurist speaker, consultant, blogger, internet TV show host and founder of Futurist.com. To arrange for a speech contact Futurist.com.

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Future of Arctic Ice – New Data

Among the interesting policy positions of the new Vice President nominee designate of the Republican Party, Sarah Palin, is that global warming, if it exists, is not related to human activity, and that polar bears are in no danger in the Arctic and thus do not need endangered species designation. As a futurist speaker, I [...]

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Futurist Speaker – Media Futurist Videos

Gerd Leonard, EU-based media futurist and I just got a nice notice for our video series in a blog called SkipVision, by David Potsiadlo. He links to all of our online videos about media futures and the forces impacting the future of media. He says, Remember when you were a kid and used to think [...]

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Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra in Google News

This is just a quick note to alert you to two currently available articles that feature quotes from me, noted for me by Google news alerts. The first is actually about China and the Beijing Olympics, “Beijing results serve food for thought,” which appears in the blog at the WRAL TV station out of Raleigh [...]

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Future of Energy – Glen Hiemstra in The Economist

The current issue of The Economist, August 16-22, 2008, on news stands now, features a paid special section entitled “The Future of Energy: Sustainability Rules in 2030.” Comments from Futurist.com founder and futurist speaker Glen Hiemstra are prominently featured by the article author, writer Morey Stettner. In this piece, sponsored by BP, the writer explores [...]

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Future of Urban Living and Building – update

In a blog post last week we discussed an innovation in urban housing, and presented a video interview and tour. The full tour, in 4 video episodes, is now available. The video series can also be seen at YouTube. Glen Hiemstra is a futurist speaker, consultant, blogger, internet TV show host and founder of Futurist.com. [...]

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Future of Sustainable Affordable Housing – A Prototype

The future of housing in the United States, and the world, is one of the most important issues we face. In the U.S. housing has been hit with a perfect storm: 1. Demographic changes including an older population, smaller households, and a younger population with differing values – all of which mean a mismatch between [...]

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Future of Engineering

In mid-July 2008 I had the privilege of conducting a think tank for the ASFE Emerging Issues and Trends Committee. ASFE is an association of engineering firms, with a focus on geotechnical engineering. The Committee is a standing group charged with anticipatory thinking on behalf of the association and its member firms. We gathered in [...]

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Peak Metal Looms

I just received a “google alert” about an interview I did with The National, published in the UAE. The article focuses on “peak metal.” The question, and it is a good one, is whether there are enough metals to enable a global population to adopt a “western/Dubai” life style. The conclusion is not with current [...]

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Our Future on Mars

As a child of the original space age, I’ve been hoping that a human mission to Mars will happen within my lifetime. While this is still a long shot, two recent developments suggest that the possibility is improving. First, the several successful NASA missions to Mars have culminated with the confirmation of water ice by [...]

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