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Economic Turn-Around Leads to Slow Recovery: Glen Hiemstra Quarterly Forecast Q2 2009
By Glen Hiemstra, March 31, 2009
The world economy, mired in recession, will reach a turn-around point sooner than expected. However, anyone waiting to get back to doing what they were doing before the recession will be disappointed.
As I said in my first speech this year, on January 8, 2009, to the Cobalt company, [...]
Future of Cities: Atlanta Fifty Forward
The Atlanta Regional Commission is the regional governance organization for Atlanta and surrounding counties. I first met them in the 1990’s when they invited me to assist in a project called Atlanta Vision 2020. In 2007, I assisted their Board and management in a long-range planning retreat. Later that year the ARC kicked [...]
Full StoryLiving Little: Future of Smaller, Sustainable Houses
This past week the annual Seattle Home Show was notable for its emphasis on smaller, more modest, and more sustainable features and homes. For many years, even decades, futurists have presumed that a day would come when it made more sense to build smaller rather than larger dwellings, primarily because of shrinking family size. [...]
Full StoryCreativity and Innovation
Creative thinking is future thinking. To think creatively is to move imaginatively into the future. To create, to innovate, is to bring the future concretely into the present. Futurists use specific skills and methodologies when thinking of the future. The same is true with creative thinkers. To learn creative thinking skills is to leverage [...]
Full StoryOne Thousand Years is not Enough
In 1999 and 2000 I had the privilege of helping to lead three retreat-like gatherings called Humanity 3000, in which scientists and international thought leaders asked a simple question: “What will it take for humanity to survive for another 1000 years?” Sponsored by the Foundation for the Future, the reports of those sessions can [...]
Full StoryFour 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 [...]
Oil Prices – Falling into Crisis
Every observer I know has been surprised by the historic crash in oil prices since July 2008. Many experts, including me, anticipated that the price would certainly fall, due to ending speculation and an economic slowdown, but the price has fallen off an historic cliff. How can this be explained?
A blogger who goes [...]
Videos by Futurist.com
The Future.
It is mysterious, looming, full of possibility.
To understand the future, and to create it, we ask three questions: What is probable? What is possible? What is preferred?
Explore the future in these Video features and interviews produced by Futurist.com on a range of future topics.
Video Features and Interviews
Introduction to Futurist.com – The Company
What [...]
Full StoryFuturist Speaker
The Future.
If you listen carefully, you can learn what the future is telling you.
Glen Hiemstra, futurist speaker, Founder of Futurist.com, author, blogger, has been listening the future professionally for two decades. Glen’s popular keynote speeches examine the important events, trends and developments that are shaping the future, with a particular emphasis on how we can [...]
Geothermal Heat Pumps
When alternative energy is discussed, a potential energy source that receives less attention is geothermal. However, if I walk a few blocks from my home to Lake Washington High School I can see a geothermal heat pump system being installed in preparation for a complete re-build of this school.
Ground-based geothermal differs from the kind [...]
