Archive for November, 2008
Fuel – The Movie
“Fuel” is out. The documentary by biofuel pioneer and Veggie Van evangelist Josh Tickell, 11 years in the making, premiered in Seattle this past weekend. I just saw it. The timing, as the Big Three plead their case before government, is serendipitous. An indictment of how Detroit has mismanaged innovation (while Sweden, Germany and other [...]
Full StoryBrenda Wins Writer Award for “The Silver Ship and the Sea”
Portland – The tenth annual Endeavour Award winner was announced November 21, 2008 at Oregon’s major science fiction convention, OryCon. Brenda Cooper won for her book “The Silver Ship and the Sea,” published by Tor Books. The other finalists were “The Book of Joby,” by Mark J. Ferrari; “Bright of the Sky,” by Kay Kenyon; [...]
Full StoryFuture of electric cars
Rock and roll legend Neil Young writes a terrific summary of the state of the electric car at Huffpo. Turn out some renegade engineers have turned a 59 Lincoln Continental, the heaviest car made that year, into an all-electric plug-in, challenging the notion that electrics have to be small and light. Good overview, interesting opinions. [...]
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The nation of Dubai announced at the Green Dubai World Forum late last month that the world’s largest manufacturing facility for solar cells will be built in Dubai. The company building the facility, Solar Technologies FZE, is also based in Dubai. They build cells made from thin film silicon on glass, at sizes up to [...]
Full StoryThe Future of the Sports Industry
Recently I was interviewed by MSNBC for an article on the future of the professional sports industry in these challenging financial times. The reporter, Bill Briggs, was interested in how franchises would survive, and also in how sports themselves might change. The article was posted today at MSNBC. We mostly talked about how different sports [...]
Full StoryGeothermal Heat Pumps
When alternative energy is discussed, a potential energy source that receives less attention is geothermal. However, if I walk a few blocks from my home to Lake Washington High School I can see a geothermal heat pump system being installed in preparation for a complete re-build of this school. Ground-based geothermal differs from the kind [...]
Full StoryHope
The U.S. economy lost 250,000 jobs in October. But a corner was turned on November 4, election day. What did the election mean? More than anything, three fundamental mind shifts: 1. A reawakening of hope for the future. Since 2001, and to some extent even before I have witnessed a loss of faith in the [...]
Full StoryFirst TV Hologram Tonight
The election is the big news, and we’ll reflect on that in good time. But tonight something else happened of significance. CNN broadcast a hologram, as a correspondent was holographically projected into the Blitzer set. The technique sounded a lot like the one I saw pioneered in 2002 at the Human Interface Technology Lab (HITL) [...]
Full StoryFuture of Human Resources
The day after the election I will have the opportunity as a futurist speaker to address the Human Resources Management Association of Chicago, HRMAC. They have posted a preview interview of my program, on YouTube. At their annual summit I will be speaking about the fundamental trends based on my book, Turning the Future Into [...]
Full StoryGlobal Visitors to Futurist.com
The month of October 2008 was a steady month in terms of visitors to Futurist.com. 7751 visits from 6567 unique visitors 15, 244 page views Where did they come from? 120 Countries including the top 10 in this order: United States – 5018 visitors Canada – 333 visitors Australia -271 visitors United Kingdom – 263 [...]
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