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Entering the new year 2012
So, we are back. Had a wonderful holiday in Peru visiting Machu Picchu among other places. Truly an awe inspiring place, matched only by New Zealand’s south island, and parts of the Canadian Rockies for grandeur. We here at Futurist.com continue to work on getting the new site ready to launch. Given that we have [...]
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Can Economic Growth Last and other Math
Yesterday I discovered a really terrific website, a blog called Do the Math, by UCSD professor Tom Murphy. He is a physicist and mathematician, who began wondering if commonly held assumptions mostly about the future could be true when subjected to math. For example, in this blog and a related one he wrote earlier Professor [...]
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Carbon Nation – the Movie – Now on DVD and Recommended
Carbon Nation is now available on DVD and on most download and On Demand sites. This important, entertaining and hopeful documentary, produced by Peter Byck, is highly recommended by us here at Futurist.com. Read the press release here. Learn how to order the film here. I saw Carbon Nation this spring when Boeing sponsored a [...]
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Carbon Nation a Great Film – Go See It.
Film director and producer Peter Byck watched An Inconvenient Truth some years ago and thought, “If that is the problem, what is the answer?” Thus began an odyssey now in its forth year to conceive, produce and now to show the new blockbuster documentary, Carbon Nation. The film opens today in San Francisco. Go see [...]
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Outlook 2011 Video
Here is our new video summarizing my Outlook 2011. I wrote the outlook at the beginning of the year and we posted the original on January 3. The written version with more detail, links to resources and a recap of how accurate our Outlook 2010 was can be found in our blog archives. After multiple [...]
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Outlook 2011
Before we offer forecasts for 2011, let’s review how we did with Outlook 2010 Aging 2010 was indeed the final year of preparation for the age wave, but we made only modest progress in getting ready. The U.S. Health Care bill was the most positive step, as it included some needed adjustments to Medicare, and [...]
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CarbonFree Partner of Carbonfund.org
At Futurist.com we know that it takes a lot of travelling to fulfill all the duties of a world renowned speaker such as Glen. We have recently taken action to offset all of the carbon that his travelling produces in addition to offsetting the emissions of the rest of our business. Using the carbon calculator [...]
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Driving in 2020: Commuting Meets Computing
Driving in 2020: Commuting Meets Computing is an article that Glen wrote in the September-October 2000 issue of the The Futurist about the future of cars and technology. So far we’ve made it halfway to 2020 and his predictions don’t seem to be too far off. I think the auto industry may be a bit [...]
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10 Big Green Ideas
(With this blog entry we welcome Catherine Otten back to Futurist.com, where she is now Director of Communications and Programs. Catherine is particularly committed to ideas that improve the environment, so in addition to her administrative duties we look forward to future blog entries like this.) Newsweek recently ran an article (in their Oct. 25 [...]
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Growing the Idaho Economy: Moving into the Future
I was born in the beautiful state of Idaho, and lived there the first decade of my life. Consequently, I always look forward to opportunities to work with consulting clients in Idaho as I feel an affinity for the place. This year one of my major projects involved assisting the State of Idaho Transportation Department [...]
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