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Fraud Alert for my fellow Speakers
If you are a professional speaker, be aware there is a quite slick Internet fraud out there. You get an email inviting you to speak at at a conference in Scotland (in my case) four weeks from now; the email comes from a Baptist Pastor. An internet search finds that this Pastor has indeed been [...]
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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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The New Pay Gap: Boomers, Gen-X, and Millennials
Glen was recently interviewed by Meghan Casserly of Forbes Magazine about the pay gap that many employees in younger generations are now dealing with. Meghan’s key point is that wage stagnation now for the Millennials may have long-term consequences for their career income, an idea that Glen agrees with. But as usual, Glen had additional [...]
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The Futures Agency
We are proud to share Gerd Leonard’s announcement of his new virtual organization, The Futures Agency (TFA). TFA is based in Basel, Switzerland and is currently comprised of 15 amazing associates including myself. The Futures Agency offers a wide variety of services to clients worldwide. TFA’s main expertise is think-tank events, workshops and executive team [...]
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Future of Health Care Reform in U.S. Now
The standard chorus today, following a win by Senator Elect Brown in Massachusetts, is that health care reform is either dead, or must be substantially revised to be passed into law. I don’t know that it is dead, but it is on life support. Somehow, in the very long process of developing the current legislation, [...]
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Our Future In Space
I grew up in space. Not literally, obviously, but in my sense of future possibilities. When Colliers and other magazines in the 1950’s featured the Von Braun space station on their covers – the great wheel in space that became an iconic image – this locked in for me a life-long interest in space exploration. [...]
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Future of Sports – quoted in New York Times
Among several New Year articles for which I was interviewed, and which I’ll summarize tomorrow in addition to laying out my outlook for 2010, this New York Times article by Harvey Araton stands out. Mr. Araton is a features columnist who asked what may happen with pro sports in the next decade. See “2020 Vision.”
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Hydrovolts offers electricity of the future
You have a chance to vote for the Inc.com new entrepreneur of the year in the next 24 hours, and here is why I suggest you vote for a Seattle, Washington based company called Hydrovolts. Last week co-founders Chris Leyerle, COO, and Burt Hamner, President, sat down for an hour with me, and explained their [...]
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The futurists and local transportation futures
The past week has been one of publicity for me, Futurist.com, and Seattle-area futurists. The Seattle Times, in their Sunday magazine called Pacific Northwest, did a cover story profile, called “The Futurists.” The writer, Carol Ostrom, had approached me with the concept for a story on future trends and in the initial conversation asked whether [...]
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Future of Health Care Reform in U.S., by Glen Hiemstra, Futurist & Speaker
Yesterday marked the death of Senator Edward Kennedy. This event turned my attention even more to the subject of health care reform in the United States. Early in the year, responding to Time Magazine, I suggested that health care reform was a fundamental innovation to help move us beyond the recession. I have little doubt [...]
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