In mid-July 2008 I had the privilege of conducting a think tank for the ASFE Emerging Issues and Trends Committee. ASFE is an association of engineering firms, with a focus on geotechnical engineering. The Committee is a standing group charged with anticipatory thinking on behalf of the association and its member firms.
We gathered in [...]

In 2004 I wrote an article here on how a relatively simple approach could end the war on terrorism. A few people told me they wished it could be communicated to officials.
This week a new report from the Rand Corporation affirmed the same approach that seemed logical to me in 2004. [...]

Hey folks, ESPN is offering you a chance to invent your sport of the future - the game, the rules, the whole thing. Nice contest, have fun. Copy us if you can, and let us know if you win!
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Glen Hiemstra is a futurist speaker, consultant, blogger, internet TV [...]

This week we launch a new series, in which Glen Hiemstra will present a “quarterly forecast.” This is intended to compliment and extend the annual Outlook. The first is for Q3 2008.
The quarterly forecasts will be published in the Articles collection on the site. We’ll send notices to those who have signed [...]

Reading the Wind, the third and latest novel from Futurist.com co-creator Brenda Cooper, is now available. I have been looking forward to this particular book, the sequel to her most recent, The Silver Ship and the Sea, a book that I loved and highly recommended.
Brenda sets her story on a distant world, where genetically [...]

Ok, now Al Gore has gone and done it.

This speech calling for a 10-year program to shift the entire U.S. electricity production to “0-carbon” via solar, wind, and geothermal is magnificent. It is the embodiment of what “bold vision,” “big hairy audacious goals,” and the “one thing” that changes everything are all about.
Can it [...]

One the most unusual and enjoyable jobs I have had as a futurist came in late winter this year, for Proctor & Gamble Beauty, a job which I did via DeVries Public Relations of New York. DeVries was recently named the Consumer PR firm of the year.
The job involved a new product introduction by [...]

Matt Simmons, oracle of oil, on CNBC last Friday, July 12, 2008, in the midst of the banking melt down.

The most interesting thing in this video is not what Simmons says, though he is more alarmed than usual, but rather how stunned the MSNBC crew appear to be. Most alarming though is the in-house [...]

Smart bloggers often just write, “what Digby said.” This time, July 15, 2008 he says it about the famous Jimmy Carter speech on energy given in 1979. If only….but a year later it was morning in America, time to live it up for 30 years. And now here we are.
Glen Hiemstra [...]

This evening the Major League held its all-star baseball game, in New York in Yankee Stadium. It is the final season for that storied place, as it is being torn down and replaced.
What caught my attention is this: The orginal Yankee Stadium was built 85 years ago — for $2.5 million, and it was [...]