Archive for December, 2008
Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra: Outlook 2009
Outlook 2009 Watch the video of my Outlook for 2009 as a futurist, speaker, and consultant. This is my final blog entry of 2008, before we take a couple of weeks off. I am cautiously optimistic about 2009. This may surprise you. Here is why. Future of EEE – Economy, Energy, Environment Economy: When I [...]
Full StoryGoogle Alerts – Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra Around the World
We are getting increased notice around the world for our work at Futurist.com. (Follow to main blog page and check out the links. You can use Google Translate to see what the articles in Czech and in Chinese have to say. The former is about the future of sports, the China article about the future [...]
Full StoryFalling Home Prices in U.S. – How far?
In the fall of 2007 I spoke to a housing conference, and argued that the issue about to confront real estate in the United States was not so much the sub-prime mortgage debt crisis, though that was going to be huge. Rather, I suspected, the underlying issue is the severe mismatch between how much houses [...]
Full StoryConsumer trends for 2009
A nice summary of consumer & cultural trends we’ll see in 2009, from the AP. Includes material from one of our favorites, TrendWatching.com.
Full StoryMedia futurist and Outlook 2009
I’ll be writing my Outlook 2009, to accompany the video already up. But getting a head start, Swiss-based media futurist Gerd Leonhard just linked to it as his blog, mediafuturist. You can get a look at Outlook 2009 here, in our upgraded video pages. Bottom line: 2009 may be just a bit better than what [...]
Full StoryDiscovering the Future
I’ve been reading a popular old book, Blue Highways, by William Least Heat Moon (1982). This is the story of his long driving tour of the U.S., keeping to “blue highways” (or two-lane roads) and small towns. At one point he gets lost (more than once actually), and writes about it, commenting in a way [...]
Full StoryPart 2 of Forbes Wolfe Nanotech Forum 2007
(This is a re-posting of a blog entry originally written in December 2007. It has been replaced for technical reasons.) A week ago I was attending the Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Forum. You can see the first of two discussions of that event here. The second day focused on “clean technologies” and the convergence of nano and [...]
Full StoryOil Prices – Falling into Crisis
Every observer I know has been surprised by the historic crash in oil prices since July 2008. Many experts, including me, anticipated that the price would certainly fall, due to ending speculation and an economic slowdown, but the price has fallen off an historic cliff. How can this be explained? A blogger who goes by [...]
Full StoryFuturist Speaker new channel at YouTube
We have begun to populate a new video channel at YouTube, called Futuristspeaker. This will become our primary video distribution channel. We’ve had many videos syndicated via a company called Brightcove, but they recently re-designed themselves to concentrate only on the largest video producers like MSNBC. We are glad to be switching completely over to [...]
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