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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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Energy and the future – space based power and cognitive dissonance
One of the most interesting and challenging bits of cognitive dissonance you can find these days is the following conflict: On one side are those who believe that a technological breakthrough related to energy is needed, and that massive investment in said technologies along with life-style changes are vital to the survival of modern civilization. [...]
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The Future of Insurance, a futurist speaker program by Glen Hiemstra
On March 6, 2009 I had the opportunity to present a keynote on the future of insurance for Explore Information Services, a unit of USIS. This was a meeting of their advisory forum, a group of about thirty North American insurance companies that focus on property and automobile insurance. My job was to think with [...]
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Futurist Speaker: Keynote Speeches by Glen Hiemstra
The Future. If you listen carefully, you can learn what the future is telling you. Glen Hiemstra, futurist speaker, Founder of Futurist.com, author, blogger, has been listening to the future professionally for two decades. Glen’s popular keynote speeches examine the important events, trends and developments that are shaping the future, with a particular emphasis on [...]
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Strategic Planning
My consulting services are designed to help you dig deeper into the process of creating your image of the preferred future. Preferred Future and Scenario Planning At Futurist.com there are two basic approaches to long-range planning: Preferred Future Planning and Scenario Planning. There is a slightly odd notion in business today that things are moving [...]
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Innovate our way out of recession
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 [...]
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Future of Cities: Atlanta Fifty Forward
The Atlanta Regional Commission is the regional governance organization for Atlanta and surrounding counties. I first met them in the 1990’s when they invited me to assist in a project called Atlanta Vision 2020. In 2007, I assisted their Board and management in a long-range planning retreat. Later that year the ARC kicked off a [...]
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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. More [...]
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Technology Advances
The idea of controlling machines with your mind has been a long-time quest. Now, as early as the Fall of 2009, you may be able to buy a game device with which you can train your mind to move matter with a machine. The concept was shown at the recent Las Vegas consumer electronics show, [...]
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Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra: Outlook 2009
Outlook 2009 Watch the video of my Outlook for 2009 as a futurist, speaker, and consultant. This is my final blog entry of 2008, before we take a couple of weeks off. I am cautiously optimistic about 2009. This may surprise you. Here is why. Future of EEE – Economy, Energy, Environment Economy: When I [...]
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