Archive for January, 2009
Economic Meltdown: The Future of Mortgages
This afteroon I caught an interview with George Soros at Davos, on CNBC. He had a very interesting response when asked specifically how the problem of actual mortgages ought to be dealt with. First he said the current and old model of mortgage lending is broken and must be dumped. His proposal? Require that lending [...]
Full StoryOne Thousand Years is not Enough
In 1999 and 2000 I had the privilege of helping to lead three retreat-like gatherings called Humanity 3000, in which scientists and international thought leaders asked a simple question: “What will it take for humanity to survive for another 1000 years?” Sponsored by the Foundation for the Future, the reports of those sessions can be [...]
Full Story65,000 is a lot for one day
Readers know that I am pretty relentless in finding how and why things are going to work in the future. Current realties make that a challenge. Today’s announcement by Caterpillar, Home Depot, Sprint, Texas Instruments, and others of total job cuts, just today, Monday, of 65,000 is stark. It means that time grows shorter by [...]
Full StoryTechnology Advances
The idea of controlling machines with your mind has been a long-time quest. Now, as early as the Fall of 2009, you may be able to buy a game device with which you can train your mind to move matter with a machine. The concept was shown at the recent Las Vegas consumer electronics show, [...]
Full StoryFour Peaks we don’t want to climb
Via The Oil Drum, we learn about the current world energy conference being held in Dubai. The conference began with an address by Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange and the Netherlands, who is “perhaps the only prince in the world who regularly uses a bike to get around and save fossil fuels…” Being [...]
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