Archive for June, 2009
Innovation is the Future
Tom Friedman gets it right in his column today, quoting the former CEO of Intel as to what the best path out of recession is. First, require everyone to graduate from High School before they can get a drivers license. Then, as Friedman quotes Craig Barrett… Barrett argues that we should also use this crisis [...]
Full Story“Where Is It Going”: new Twitter-based video show with Futurist Glen Hiemstra and Gerd Leonhard: ready for your questions
Recently my futurist friend Gerd Leonhard from Basel, Switzerland and I started a new project together called Where is it Going (WIIG). The concept is simple – we record an online conversation about once a week, taking future-related questions submitted anyone, via Twitter. We record 5-8 minute long videos of Gerd and myself, responding to [...]
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I’m preparing a program I’ll be delivering next month for RetailNOW, the conference trade show for the Retail Solutions Providers Association. A bellweather sector, the retail industry supplies important information on the progression of the economic downturn. How is one of its main providers heading into its annual industry event? Evidently with some hopeful expectation. [...]
Full StoryEnergy and the future – space based power and cognitive dissonance
One of the most interesting and challenging bits of cognitive dissonance you can find these days is the following conflict: On one side are those who believe that a technological breakthrough related to energy is needed, and that massive investment in said technologies along with life-style changes are vital to the survival of modern civilization. [...]
Full StoryLarge Scale Innovation
Recently I’ve begun to get acquainted with Dr. John Kao, and a project he has begun to encourage “large scale innovation” in the world. Dr. Kao is a former Harvard Business School professor, best known for his books Jamming: The art and discipline of business creativity, and Innovation Nation. His new project, the Institute for [...]
Full StoryAffordable Housing and the Future
This Friday, June 12, I have the opportunity to address a conference on Affordable Housing, at the Everett Washington Events Center. There is still time to register. As you may know I have been speaking about the future of housing, and community design, for some time, and particularly since September 2007 when I made a [...]
Full StoryGoogle Alerts for Futurist Glen Hiemstra
Showed up in google news alerts twice this week… The first one, two actually, refers to a program that I helped to create with well known stress and anxiety expert Lucinda Bassett. She has developed and now has a available a 5-CD program called “The Solution .” I collaborated on the first CD in the [...]
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