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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 [...]
Full StoryFuturist 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 [...]
Full StoryMedia futurist and Outlook 2009
I’ll be writing my Outlook 2009, to accompany the video already up. But getting a head start, Swiss-based media futurist Gerd Leonhard just linked to it as his blog, mediafuturist. You can get a look at Outlook 2009 here, in our upgraded video pages. Bottom line: 2009 may be just a bit better than what [...]
Full StoryVideos by Futurist.com
The Future. It is mysterious, looming, full of possibility. To understand the future, and to create it, we ask three questions: What is probable? What is possible? What is preferred? Explore the future in these Video features and interviews produced by Futurist.com on a range of future topics. Video Features and Interviews Introduction to Futurist.com [...]
Full StoryFuturist Speaker
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 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 how [...]
Full StoryOutlook 2008
Here is my outlook for 2008, recorded December 21, 2007. Overview – 2008 will be a year that feels like a whip-saw. Promising innovations. Economic turmoil. Large events The Economy 2008 – Paradoxes 2008 will be one of paradox, innovation balanced by turmoil. Because of the tremendous interconnectivity of researchers, the availability of money for [...]
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