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Future of Retail – Google alerts for Glen Hiemstra Keynote Speech and Panel for RSPA Annual Trade Show
On Monday I was in Las Vegas to address the annual meeting of the Retail Service Providers Association, and to moderate a panel on “thinking outside the retail box.” The RSPA issues these press notices and articles. As soon as I can I will get a summary of my talk posted here, and the slides [...]
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Blue Mars is coming – improved shared 3D experience on the Web
Someday has arrived. Someday the net will enable robust, shared 3D experiences. Someday robust, shared 3D experiences will be secure and stable. Someday robust, shared 3D experiences that are secure and stable will be relatively simple to produce using mostly off-the-shelf and familiar tools. Someday robust, shared 3D experiences that are secure and stable, created [...]
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Future of Travel and Tourism
Last week I spoke to the Travel and Tourism Research Association on alternative futures for travel and tourism. It was the 40th Annual Conference of the association, held in Honolulu, and my appearance was coordinated by Goldstar Speakers. The key slides from my brief program are available for download via Slideshare. I asked where the [...]
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2010 Speaking Schedule Futurist Glen Hiemstra
Notes on availability: If you are working with any Speaker Bureau, that bureau can book Glen. Dates with city and event listed are firm, but additional events in that city may be possible on same day. Dates on “HOLD” are available for second hold; please call to see if the date can be released for [...]
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Energy and the future – space based power and cognitive dissonance
One of the most interesting and challenging bits of cognitive dissonance you can find these days is the following conflict: On one side are those who believe that a technological breakthrough related to energy is needed, and that massive investment in said technologies along with life-style changes are vital to the survival of modern civilization. [...]
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Large Scale Innovation
Recently I’ve begun to get acquainted with Dr. John Kao, and a project he has begun to encourage “large scale innovation” in the world. Dr. Kao is a former Harvard Business School professor, best known for his books Jamming: The art and discipline of business creativity, and Innovation Nation. His new project, the Institute for [...]
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Affordable Housing and the Future
This Friday, June 12, I have the opportunity to address a conference on Affordable Housing, at the Everett Washington Events Center. There is still time to register. As you may know I have been speaking about the future of housing, and community design, for some time, and particularly since September 2007 when I made a [...]
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Google Alerts for Futurist Glen Hiemstra
Showed up in google news alerts twice this week… The first one, two actually, refers to a program that I helped to create with well known stress and anxiety expert Lucinda Bassett. She has developed and now has a available a 5-CD program called “The Solution .” I collaborated on the first CD in the [...]
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World on FiRe – Notes & Impressions from FiRe 2009
Last week included four eventful days at the annual Future In Review conference put on by the Strategic News Service. This year, the last at the San Diego Del Coronado was the best of the five I have attended, of the eight that have been held. (full disclosure – I am on the planning committee [...]
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Twenty Innovations for the Future
I just did a radio interview with KMJO in Fargo, North Dakota, about the Business Week feature on 20 innovations for the future. They were especially interested in the innovations around cancer and nanotech-based treatments, and next generation biofuels. We had written about this Business Week feature before, and you can find more information here. [...]
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