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Newly posted videos of past keynote speeches
We are continuously updating the website and have added a couple of full-length keynote speech videos from 2008 that we especially like. The first is a keynote speech from the 2008 annual convention of ACE Hardware franchise owners. In this video Glen addresses long term trends, and shorter term consumer trends. Following the speech a [...]
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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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Four Peaks we don’t want to climb
Via The Oil Drum, we learn about the current world energy conference being held in Dubai. The conference began with an address by Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange and the Netherlands, who is “perhaps the only prince in the world who regularly uses a bike to get around and save fossil fuels…” Being [...]
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Futurist Speaker Sample Video at YouTube
For a long time visitors here have been able to view my futurist keynote speaking sample video here at the website. That video, a variety of short cuts from my futurist speeches is now available at YouTube, in my YouTube channel, futuristtube. At YouTube you can see more of our videos by searching for futuristtube. [...]
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The Future of Terrorism
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. You can read [...]
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Invent a Sport of the Future
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! Go here to enter your sport. Glen Hiemstra is a futurist speaker, consultant, blogger, internet TV [...]
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Launch of Glen Hiemstra’s Quarterly Forecast
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 up for [...]
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Reading the Wind – New Book Available
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 [...]
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0 Carbon Future – Now is the time
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 [...]
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AquaCurrent Science
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 [...]
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