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Is West Side Story still America’s story?
Seattle’s Cinerama has been hosting the 70mm Film Festival for the past couple of weeks, featuring classic films from 2001: A Space Odyssey to My Fair Lady. Yesterday I was able to go see West Side Story. My first time ever having seen the musical, I was impressed with the cinematography (advanced for the ‘60s) [...]
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Will Austerity Create the Future?
This is the kind of thing that government built the last time we had such a deep economic problem and employment needed a boost. Are we building anything for the future, today, to help get out of the jobs crisis? Just wondering. Here are some alternate ideas to austerity as the path to prosperity, offered [...]
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Sir Arthur C. Clarke: Prognosticating at 90
Sir Arthur C. Clarke (December 1917-March 2008) was a forward-thinking writer and scientist involved in film, television, government, and especially, amazingly accurate speculation about the future. Clarke collected countless awards, including receiving a Knighthood in 1998 and having a geostationary orbit named after him by the International Astronomical Union. I was touched this week when [...]
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3D Manufacture in Space
It has been possible for years now to do 3D design, 3D prototyping, and more recently 3D manufacture or 3D printing of more and more complex objects. Increasingly this kind of work can be done using small machines, even desktop machines. This past summer I heard about a project to extend the concept of 3D [...]
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Affordable Energy Efficient Housing for Seniors – A Future Trend
Few issues shaping the future stand out in the U.S. more than the future of housing. We tend to think just of the mortgage meltdown of the past three years when considering housing. No real solutions have appeared yet to really address this problem. But there are three additional forces, beyond the mortgage mess, that [...]
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Future Trends and Philanthropy: How good are your predictions, Glen?
One of the most frequently asked questions to me as a professional futurist is, “So what have you gotten right in the past when you’ve been predicting the future?” Now, I don’t sell myself as a predictor, really. In fact I tell people I am more a consumer of those who specialize in predictions, and [...]
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A Successful Second Annual State of the Arts Conference
Last Thursday The Millennium Project, c3:Conscious Creativity and Producers Guild of America teamed up to present the “State of the Arts 2011: Producing Change” event at LA Center Studios. Before the actual program there was a two-hour Think Tank session that was streamed online. I got a chance to tune in and hear some great [...]
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Future of transportation – driverless pods at Heathrow
Personal Rapid Transit systems have been on the drawing boards for ages. Call up a small, personal, driverless, autonomous vehicle, program your destination, get in and off you go. Prototypes have been built but such systems have generally not gotten off the drawing board. Until now at Heathrow airport in the UK. Yes, the destinations [...]
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Climate and 24 Hours of Reality
I missed the 24 Hours of Reality programming from the Climate Project yesterday. They went round the world to 24 locations, with a show in each location describing local climate issues, and “what you can do.” If you are interested visit their website where you can view a video on each of the 24 cities [...]
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Future of Money in American Politics
This is really interesting, did not know this. In 1976 and in 1980, when Jimmy Carter ran against Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, respectively, for President, the presidential campaigns raised… 0 dollars. That is, both Carter, and Ford and Reagan, took no campaign contributions. Instead, all the campaigns were paid for only by public financing [...]
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