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 years. [...]
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Innovate our way out of recession
Tags: business week, consultant, damian joseph, future, futurist, futurist.com, Glen Hiemstra, health care, innovations, invention, recession, reform, speaker, technology, universal coverage
Social 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, [...]
Tags: business, crm, facebook, future, futurist, Gerd Leonhard, Glen Hiemstra, social networks, speaker, twitter, video, whereisitgoing
Living 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. [...]
Tags: built environment, carbon footprint, consultant, downsizing, environment, future, futurist, futurist.com, Glen Hiemstra, green buildings, homes, houses, Korean Air, living little, Morning Calm, speaker, sustainability
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? [...]
Tags: CNBC, econmic meltdown, future, futurist, Glen Hiemstra, mortgages, Soros, speaker
65,000 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 [...]
Tags: economic crisis, economy, future, futurist, Glen Hiemstra, keynote, Krugman, Kunstler, speaker
Google Alerts - Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra Around the World
We are getting increased notice around the world for our work at Futurist.com. (Follow to main blog page and check out the links. You can use Google Translate to see what the articles in Czech and in Chinese have to say. The former is about the future of sports, the China article [...]
Tags: China, Czech Republic, future, future hotels, futurist speaker, Glen Hiemstra, sports
Falling Home Prices in U.S. - How far?
In the fall of 2007 I spoke to a housing conference, and argued that the issue about to confront real estate in the United States was not so much the sub-prime mortgage debt crisis, though that was going to be huge. Rather, I suspected, the underlying issue is the severe mismatch between how much [...]
Tags: consultant, debt crisis, future, futurist, Glen Hiemstra, housing, real estate, speaker
Media futurist and Outlook 2009
I’ll be writing my Outlook 2009, to accompany the video already up. But getting a head start, Swiss-based media futurist Gerd Leonhard just linked to it as his blog, mediafuturist.
You can get a look at Outlook 2009 here, in our upgraded video pages.
Bottom line: 2009 may be just a bit better than what we [...]
Tags: economy, energy, environment, future, futurist, Gerd Leonhard, Glen Hiemstra, health care, media, outlook 2009, speaker, technology
Oil Prices - Falling into Crisis
Every observer I know has been surprised by the historic crash in oil prices since July 2008. Many experts, including me, anticipated that the price would certainly fall, due to ending speculation and an economic slowdown, but the price has fallen off an historic cliff. How can this be explained?
A blogger who goes [...]
Tags: consultant, debt crisis, future of energy, futurist, Glen Hiemstra, oil prices, speaker, sustainability
The Future of the Sports Industry
Recently I was interviewed by MSNBC for an article on the future of the professional sports industry in these challenging financial times. The reporter, Bill Briggs, was interested in how franchises would survive, and also in how sports themselves might change. The article was posted today at MSNBC.
We mostly talked about how different [...]
Tags: bill briggs, financial crisis, future, futurist, Glen Hiemstra, MSNBC, professional sports, speaker, sports
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