In The News

A list of recent articles, interviews and blogs featuring futurist speaker Glen Hiemstra.

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Asteroid Miners May Set the Stage for Space Colonization

Tech News World, April, 2012
“On Tuesday, the founders of Planetary Resources held a press conference at the Museum of Flight in Seattle to announce a new megamillion-dollar plan to use commercially built robotic ships to travel to the asteroid belt to mine for valuable minerals including platinum and gold.”

Top 7 Medical Breakthroughs Just Around the Corner

NewsMax MaxLife, November, 2011
“An effective treatment for Alzheimer’s, a cure for the common cold, gene therapy that destroys cancers, transplant organs grown in the lab. These medical miracles are no longer the dreams of science fiction, but are likely coming in the next decade, say experts.”

Five Advantages of the Stint Career

Forbes Blog, July 7, 2011
“Through reading Hiemstra’s illustration of the future version of the employee, you see this already occurring in our present as well as the past. (dot com bubble anyone?) It isn’t the employment of choice for everyone, but for many the advantages of being a stint worker are plentiful.”

“Daddy, what’s a job?” – The Future of Employment

HR Leader Newsletter, Sydney, Australia, May 5, 2011
“In the future, people will work ‘stints’ rather than ‘jobs’, writes Glen Hiemstra. There was a time in history when no one had a job as we think of it. It was only in the last century that the modern concept of a ‘job’ as work exchanged for wages and benefits was invented.”

What is Vision 2050: An Integrated National Transportation System?

Green Joyment, March 22, 2011
“Glen Hiemstra, author of Turning the Future into Revenue and blogger at Futurist.com played a role in the development of the report. Hiemstra says the vision was ‘quite bold and still relevant today.’”

Craft the Best End Game

Investors.com, from Investors Business Daily, March 18, 2011
“Building your firm hinges on checking three outcomes: what’s likely, what’s possible, what’s best. Going for the last is what separates great outfits from wannabes, notes Glen Hiemstra, author of ‘Turning the Future Into Revenue.’ The likely-possible-best outlooks have one thing in common: The place you’re in now. The endgames are radically different.”

Focus on the Future

Constructech, March 14, 2011
“Glen Hiemstra, founder, futurist.com, www.futurist.com, Kirkland, Wash., says there is a downshifting in economic ambitions or expectations that is changing at a very rapid rate. Homeowners are no longer looking for so-called ‘McMansions’ and instead…”

A More Frugal Economy

Leyerle, February 10, 2011
“Glen gave a wide-ranging but thematically coherent and engaging talk on what the future might hold over the next 10-50 years. One key point was how we have moved, perhaps permanently, to a ‘frugal economy’ where people have less, buy less, and want less. It may be making a virtue of necessity for some, but for others, especially those focused on sustainability, it has a deeply satisfying appeal.”

The Future of Homebuilding

Constructech magazine, February 2011
“Glen Hiemstra, founder, futurist.com, answers some of the top questions on the minds of homebuilders these days—including what trends will impact the homebuilding industry in 2011 and what role technology will play moving forward.”

The New Pay Gap: Boomers, Gen-X, and Millennials

Forbes, January 5, 2011
“While Hiemstra agrees that Gen Y has suffered a financial blow, he points to evidence that their values—the way they think about money–are shifting in a positive way, just maybe as a result. ‘Even before the recession took hold, Millennials were already in the process of redefining the American Dream—downshifting away from big income to other strong values,’ he says.”