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A list of recent articles, interviews and blogs featuring futurist speaker Glen Hiemstra.
Innovations of the Future
Business Week, February 25, 2009
Yahoo Finance, February 27, 2009
“Glen Hiemstra, author and founder of Futurist.com, wants to see universal coverage, while allowing folks to purchase insurance privately….” This article focuses on technical and social innovations needed to get out of the economic meltdown.
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20 Most Important Inventions of the Next 10 Years
Business Week, February 25, 2009
“So BusinessWeek asked several futurists, including Futurist.com’s Glen Hiemstra, consultant David Zach, and author Howard Rheingold, to describe what they’d ….” This article features 20 inventions that we suggested are important.
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Change: Approaching ‘Singularity’
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, February 21, 2009
“The pace of change is accelerating. Get used to it. It’s not slowing down or going away, and there’s a name for where we’re headed.”
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Kirkland-based Glen Hiemstra sees more struggling companies and sinking home values
Puget Sound Business Journal, September 19, 2008
“Ahead we will see several more major institutions wobble and likely fail or fundamentally transform into shells of their former selves,” says Hiemstra, usually an optimist. “It’s gluttony over frugality. It’s been an amazing cascade of bad decisions and second order consequences.”
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Get Yourself a Media Futurist!
SkipVision, August 24, 2008
“Particularly, I speak of media futurists Gerd Leonhard and Glen Hiemstra, the work of whom has left me recently fascinated. It isn’t that they talk about the things that will happen, but rather the things that are happening right now in the realm of media. That is, anything and everything pertaining to the web, music, video, technology, copyright, sharing and so forth.”
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Beijing Results Serve Food for Thought
WRAL.com, August 24, 2008
“China is attempting to maintain what is likely a doomed dichotomy – cultivating a free market while stifling free expression. In the short-run, however, there are certain advantages. The government built a high-speed rail line in Shanghai in only two years, according to Glen Hiemstra, a noted futurist who follows and forecasts technical and social trends.” (more)
Expect strong economy in 5 years, experts say,
Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 24, 2008
“‘Predicting the nature of the economy is easier than predicting how it will perform,’ said Glen Hiemstra, a futurist author and speaker based in Washington state who founded Futurist.com, a Web site about topics related to the future.
“‘Energy is going to be an ongoing issue from now on,’ he said. ‘The No. 1 [economic] driver will be energy transition.’” (more)
The Future of Energy: Sustainability Rules in 2030
The Economist Magazine
August 16, 2008
“The current issue of The Economist, August 16-22, 2008, on news stands now, features a paid special section entitled “The Future of Energy: Sustainability Rules in 2030.” Comments from Futurist.com founder and futurist speaker Glen Hiemstra are prominently featured by the article author, writer Morey Stettner.” (more)
‘Peak Metal’ problems loom
The National, August 7, 2008
“‘We have to do a better job recycling…,’ said Glen Hiemstra of Washington state, founder of Futurist.com.
‘What the world needs,’ Mr Hiemstra said, is ‘breakthrough thinking on every level about everything, about how to do things more efficiently, with different materials, and sustainably.
‘People, however, will continue to want to live a high-quality lifestyle. But it will have to be done with less material consumption,’ he said.” (more)
30th Anniversary: Vision Quest
Builder Magazine, April 2008
“Glen Hiemstra has three kids in their 20s who swear their American Dream doesn’t include owning a McMansion in the suburbs. That kind of insight is catnip to Hiemstra, who is the founder of Futurist.com, a Web site that loftily focuses on ‘the dissemination of information about the future and how to create it.’ But he’s been in the forecasting game long enough to know that when it comes to the future, what people say and what they eventually do can be two very different things.” (more)
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