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Information Technology Spending: Make Way for the Cloud

Ahh, to live in the clouds. We’ve been there for a decade, and each day more of what we do – make a call, watch a video, navigate a car, order a product, read a book, play a game, takes place in the cloud. Yes, cloud computing is just a clever name for big server [...]

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Expand Your Horizons with Scenario Planning

Have you ever wanted to learn a bit more about scenario planning as a tool to expand your planning horizon? This past summer I had the opportunity to lead a group from the National Association of Electrical Distributors in a workshop on future trends and preferred future planning. The participants, all part of the Lake [...]

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Will Austerity Create the Future?

This is the kind of thing that government built the last time we had such a deep economic problem and employment needed a boost. Are we building anything for the future, today, to help get out of the jobs crisis? Just wondering. Here are some alternate ideas to austerity as the path to prosperity, offered [...]

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Occupying Wall Street and Economic Futures

I began thinking about the long term impact of the growing gap between rich and poor, and the flat-lining of middle class incomes, several years ago. I began the chapter on The Great Divides in my 2006 book by discussing the growing wealth divide, and in a 2006 keynote for the American Red Cross I [...]

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Fraud Alert for my fellow Speakers

If you are a professional speaker, be aware there is a quite slick Internet fraud out there. You get an email inviting you to speak at at a conference in Scotland (in my case) four weeks from now; the email comes from a Baptist Pastor. An internet search finds that this Pastor has indeed been [...]

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iCAREweCARE – Young People Creating Preferred Futures

iCAREweCARE.org is a global network of high school and college students coordinating their volunteer efforts to focus on issues they really care about, in order to make a bigger difference in the world. The Founder is a dynamic high school student from the Seattle, Washington area, Priyanka Jain. We had the opportunity to interview her [...]

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Future of Human Space Flight with Elon Musk

In just a few minutes SpaceX founder Elon Musk (also founder of the Tesla car company), will be speaking at the National Press Club in Washington DC, streamed live. The subject is the future of human space flight. If this interests you, tune in now.

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3D Manufacture in Space

It has been possible for years now to do 3D design, 3D prototyping, and more recently 3D manufacture or 3D printing of more and more complex objects. Increasingly this kind of work can be done using small machines, even desktop machines. This past summer I heard about a project to extend the concept of 3D [...]

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