Archive for 'New at Futurist.com'
Creating the Future: Quick Overview Video with Glen Hiemstra
This week we posted a new mix of keynote speaking highlights from my work as a futurist. I think you will like it. Glen Hiemstra the Founder of Futurist.com. To arrange for a speech, workshop or consultation contact Futurist.com.
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Visits from 128 Nations to Futurist.com
In the last 30 days Futurist.com received visits from people living in 128 different countries. This is slightly above our average of about 120 nations a month. Nearly 12,000 page views is good, but the global interest in the future is constantly impressive to me. If you look, we were visited by nearly every country [...]
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New Keynote Sample Video
We are pleased to present a new sample of my keynote speaking and programs in this 5-minute video. With excerpts from 2010 back to 2006, this video illustrates that my keynotes and programs have two basic themes. First, while the future is not perfectly predictable, it is knowable. So in each program we spend some [...]
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The Futures Agency
We are proud to share Gerd Leonard’s announcement of his new virtual organization, The Futures Agency (TFA). TFA is based in Basel, Switzerland and is currently comprised of 15 amazing associates including myself. The Futures Agency offers a wide variety of services to clients worldwide. TFA’s main expertise is think-tank events, workshops and executive team [...]
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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 [...]
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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, UsStream TV. [...]
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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 completely over to [...]
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Quarterly 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 environment a [...]
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Launch 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 up for [...]
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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 [...]
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