Archive for 'New at Futurist.com'
Futurist.com Launches New-Look Website
Today marked the successful launch of the new look for Futurist.com, my home as a futurist speaker and consultant. This new Wordpress-based theme provides a cleaner and up-to-date interface, and robust options in continuing to improve the user experience.
I am particularly pleased that we’ve been able to better organize the blog and the older [...]
Seven 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 [...]
Live Webcast: Future Trends in Technology
At 4:00 PM Pacific time (U.S.) I will be presenting a program on interesting future technology for a Technology Executive Roundtable, coordinated by Nancy Truitt Pierce and her company, Woods Creek Consulting,
You can tune into the Webcast in the viewer here, or by linking to our “futurist” channel at the webcast host, [...]
New Programs at Futurist.com
How can you shape your future in these challenging times?
The temptation for many is to circle the wagons and wait for the dangers to pass by, hoping for a day when things get back to normal.
But, there is also a more pro-active alternative. Here at Futurist.com we have decided to go that route. [...]
Futurist Speaker new channel at YouTube
We have begun to populate a new video channel at YouTube, called Futuristspeaker. This will become our primary video distribution channel. We’ve had many videos syndicated via a company called Brightcove, but they recently re-designed themselves to concentrate only on the largest video producers like MSNBC. We are glad to be switching [...]
Full StoryQuarterly Forecast: Sailing Rough Waters
My new quarterly forecast, for the 4th Quarter 2008, is now available. As a futurist speaker and writer I track a variety of events, trends and developments. This issue discusses the future of oil, the future of the workforce, and the future of the economy, with an eye toward anticipating the kind of [...]
Full StoryLaunch of Glen Hiemstra’s Quarterly Forecast
This week we launch a new series, in which Glen Hiemstra will present a “quarterly forecast.” This is intended to compliment and extend the annual Outlook. The first is for Q3 2008.
The quarterly forecasts will be published in the Articles collection on the site. We’ll send notices to those who have signed [...]
Reading the Wind – New Book Available
Reading the Wind, the third and latest novel from Futurist.com co-creator Brenda Cooper, is now available. I have been looking forward to this particular book, the sequel to her most recent, The Silver Ship and the Sea, a book that I loved and highly recommended.
Brenda sets her story on a distant world, where genetically [...]
Outlook 2008
Here is my outlook for 2008, recorded December 21, 2007.
Overview – 2008 will be a year that feels like a whip-saw. Promising innovations. Economic turmoil. Large events
The Economy 2008 – Paradoxes
2008 will be one of paradox, innovation balanced by turmoil. Because of the tremendous interconnectivity of researchers, the [...]
Future Talks now Available on iTunes
A new online TV series was launched in October 2007, Future Talks, with European-based media futurist Gerd Leonhard and with Glen Hiemstra. In this series produced by Media Conversations, these two leading international futurists are interviewed in several short programs by Ralph Simon.
Each episode can be viewed at our Future Talks page. The [...]
