Futurist.com: Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra

Welcome news…from Mars

Amid all the turmoil on the home planet, it is nice to know that we continue to learn about the history of, and potential future habitability of Mars. For example, this recent announcement from NASA of further evidence for the presence of water, and the rather amazing observation of snow falling in the Martian [...]

Next step to financial future

Well, well, the U.S. House of Represtatives voted down the rescue package.
Now what?
I am attempting to synthesize what I read and see, as I am sure many of you are. This approach, currently posted on Firedoglake, seems appealing and sensible. Give Secretary Paulson $150 billion now, till January. Tween now and the [...]

Future of Never Sold Housing and some underlying dynamics behind the financial crisis

It looks now, about mid-day Pacific time on September 25 that a deal is either concluded or nearly so for Washington DC to provide the $700 billion or more in relief that Wall Street apparently needs to sustain liquidity and keep the economy going. Arguments still rage about whether this is a good idea, [...]

The real future fear driving Wall Steet?

Is this part of the real fear that drove Wall Street banks and backers to seek government relief? I would not rule this out, far fetched though it may seem.
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.

Preferred Debt Future: Slow down, do nothing now

The debate continues in Washington DC about the proposed $700 Billion (really much more) bail out of Wall Street investment firms and banks. Objections are being appropriately raised about both the need to do this so quickly, and the need to do it at all.
Our best reading now is that the best course is [...]

The future way out of financial mess

Last night I was interviewed by a columnist for the Puget Sound Business Journal, about the financial crisis shaking Wall Street and reshaping the U.S. Presidential election. I reprised much of the previous blog entry, and concluded that an amazing series of bad decisions are now cascading into this debacle, with a variety of [...]

Future of Wall Street – A futurist perspective

The 500 point drop in the Dow today, 6th largest drop in stock market history, is indicative of three interrelated social-cultural-economic factors. First, in response to 9/11 various economic actors cooperated to loosen credit as a way to prop up the economy. Ironically, in retrospect this response perfectly enabled the fulfillment of the [...]

Future of Oil

Last week Friday, September 12, 2008 the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a hearing on the future of energy. The session focused on such issues as off-shore drilling (drill baby drill) and alternatives.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island asked the most critical question:

WHITEHOUSE: Gentlemen, we’re in the middle of a [...]

The Future of Leadership – Moving Through Complexity

The Future of Leadership: Moving through Complexity
We’ve become aware of an interesting trend in leadership development: exploring expression and movement as a method for engaging change.
I just returned from the launch of a leadership program offered by the Banff Centre in Alberta: Powerful Expressions – Leadership that Moves Us. The first of a 4-part series [...]

Future of Permafrost – bigger issue than ice

From Science Daily we learn of a new study published in the Journal of BioScience, Sep. 2008, on potential impacts of thawing arctic permafrost. Over millennia, according to the study authors, northern latitude permafrost has sequestered a trillion tons of organic compounds. Warming in the Arctic, which melts the polar ice cap, also [...]