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Future of Health Care Reform in U.S. Now
The standard chorus today, following a win by Senator Elect Brown in Massachusetts, is that health care reform is either dead, or must be substantially revised to be passed into law. I don’t know that it is dead, but it is on life support. Somehow, in the very long process of developing the current legislation, [...]
Full StoryGoodwill games to bridge U.S.-Muslim divides?
The Goodwill Games were created in the 1980’s as a brainchild of Ted Turner, in an effort to help bridge the gap between the then Soviet Union and the U.S., following the Olympic boycotts of the 1980’s. The effort was really quite successful, and I personally remember the 2nd Goodwill Games, held in 1990 here [...]
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Update Jan. 17 – Visual Journalist David Ryder offers free print for those who donate – generous offer and all-around good idea. Thanks David. Give here. earthquake devastation in Haiti is foremost on our minds. Here is a recommended way to help, via Doctors without Borders. The need for medical help is most urgent. Go [...]
Full StoryOur Future In Space
I grew up in space. Not literally, obviously, but in my sense of future possibilities. When Colliers and other magazines in the 1950’s featured the Von Braun space station on their covers – the great wheel in space that became an iconic image – this locked in for me a life-long interest in space exploration. [...]
Full StoryOutlook 2010, by Glen Hiemstra, Futurist, Speaker
Outlook 2010, by Glen Hiemstra I recorded this outlook for 2010 on December 30, 2009. I decided this year to look at five areas. Here is the video. (Video Production: David Ryder, ryderpictures.com) Aging The first is demographic. I think that the biggest story of 2010 is the aging society, which will fly under the [...]
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As the year and the decade turned, I was invited by a variety of media outlets to contribute via interviews to articles looking ahead. Some looked at the coming decade, others at the coming year. Two more are now available online. Wesley Hester and John Reid Blackwell penned a look at the past and future [...]
Full StoryFuture of Sports – quoted in New York Times
Among several New Year articles for which I was interviewed, and which I’ll summarize tomorrow in addition to laying out my outlook for 2010, this New York Times article by Harvey Araton stands out. Mr. Araton is a features columnist who asked what may happen with pro sports in the next decade. See “2020 Vision.”
Full StoryPodcast of Glen Hiemstra Keynote on Systems Change
In mid-October 2009 I gave a closing keynote speech to the 2009 Institute for Oral Health conference on defining quality. They had asked me to address the question of how one goes about promoting systems change. The podcast of my talk is now available here. To provide some insight on making systems change, I went [...]
Full StorySeven Weeks Into the Future
I’ve been asked all year how the futuring business is going – are people interested in the future, and willing to pay for programs? The year 2009 has been up and down, but beginning in mid-September we began one of the most amazing strings of programs and events in two decades. First, Lexis Nexis invited [...]
Full StoryHydrovolts offers electricity of the future
You have a chance to vote for the Inc.com new entrepreneur of the year in the next 24 hours, and here is why I suggest you vote for a Seattle, Washington based company called Hydrovolts. Last week co-founders Chris Leyerle, COO, and Burt Hamner, President, sat down for an hour with me, and explained their [...]
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