Archive for February, 2009
Innovate our way out of recession
This is a google alert for an amazing piece in Business Week, based on interviews with me, Glen Hiemstra, and a few other innovators and thinkers, by a terrific writer, Damian Joseph. Damian offers an overview of the need for and power of innovation, followed by a list of 20 innovations for the next 10 [...]
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The Atlanta Regional Commission is the regional governance organization for Atlanta and surrounding counties. I first met them in the 1990’s when they invited me to assist in a project called Atlanta Vision 2020. In 2007, I assisted their Board and management in a long-range planning retreat. Later that year the ARC kicked off a [...]
Full StorySocial Networks for B2B Purposes: Futurists Gerd Leonhard and Glen Hiemstra
My friend and colleague, Gerd Leonhard (the futurist based in Europe with whom I collaborate on projects like Future Talks) and I have started a new experiment. We plan to periodically meet online via video and produce a video conversation on a future issue. Last week we tried it for the first time, using Skype [...]
Full StoryLiving Little: Future of Smaller, Sustainable Houses
This past week the annual Seattle Home Show was notable for its emphasis on smaller, more modest, and more sustainable features and homes. For many years, even decades, futurists have presumed that a day would come when it made more sense to build smaller rather than larger dwellings, primarily because of shrinking family size. More [...]
Full StoryAmericans want transportation change
It is turning out that Americans are in the mood for change in our transportation systems, despite recent declines in gasoline and oil prices. People want an integrated system of trains and buses that run on time and get them where they need to go, in cities and between cities. Yes, cars will be around [...]
Full StorySingularity
Google News Alert for: glen hiemstra Approaching ‘Singularity’ Minneapolis Star Tribune – Minneapolis,MN,USA They’re “digital natives,” according to futurist Glen Hiemstra. They approach all matters of everyday life differently, he says. Homework, visiting, dating …
Full StoryHydrogen Fuel Cell Tractor
Autoblog Green, one of my favorite sites for tracking what is going on with green transportation alternatives, has an interesting lead article on the debut of a hydrogen fuel cell tractor, in Europe. The tractor looks great, and illustrates both the promise of, and problems with hydrogen fuel cells as a core technology for future [...]
Full StoryFuture Tech for Livable Community and Homes
Archi-Tech Magazine has a nice feature on “Future Tech” in our buildings and homes and neighborhoods, based on some interviews with futurists, including me. ARCHI-TECH asked several futurists and forward-thinking designers to tell us which technologies and trends are most likely to have a significant effect on the building industry in the future, both short [...]
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